Okay….I have to admit to really liking this twisting of reality. Now, I’ve only seen the first season of lost. I am waiting for the second season to come out on DVD. Of course, Mink Hippie and I are huge fans of Lanikai Juice but we never see the cast of Lost there. They are…
Category: Books and Writers
Winner of the Fukn Essay Contest!
Congratulations to David Stacy for becoming the first winner of the Fukn Essay Contest. You can read his award winning essay here . David has also recently published his first book Guerilla Journalism. If you are conservative minded, live by the rules, enjoy structure, and like to get what is pictured on the box…then you…
Award for Sierra Leone war novel
Maybe Charles Taylor can read this to pass the time in Pademba Road prison…. A novel about a child soldier in Sierra Leone has won the prestigious Orwell prize for political writing. Delia Jarrett-Macauley, a British writer whose parents are from Sierra Leone, was honoured for her novel, Moses, Citizen and Me. It is the…
Bill Cardoso, dead at 68; Writer Introduced 'Gonzo' – Los Angeles Times
On a press bus in New Hampshire during the 1968 presidential campaign, writer Bill Cardoso told Hunter S. Thompson, “Don’t worry, [the other reporters] are all so square they won’t know what you’re doing.” Cardoso was referring to the marijuana joint he had just given Thompson, a freelance journalist of some notoriety who had earned…
Author Atwood invents 'magic' pen
This is Margaret Atwood – the woman who wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. She got tired of going on book tours and decided to do something about it! Author Margaret Atwood has invented a remote-controlled pen which allows her to sign books for her fans from thousands of miles away. Autographs are signed on an electronic…
Update on Incredible Fukn.US Essay Contest
Okay guys, a couple of questions came up and I want to make sure the answers are available. 1) What is the deadline for submitting esssays? Answer: Since the Winners will be announced April 14th. The deadline to get them to me is April 7th. That gives me a week to read them. If I…
Lost revives Irish novel interest
Move over Oprah – there’s a new literary-promotion-machine in town. The book is described as …”the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle and a chilling fable of unending guilt”. A surreal Irish novel which fleetingly appeared in an episode of hit drama Lost has seen an upsurge…
Vonnegut writes of 'contempt' for Bush
B*** actually did something good… I’m excited to read this. Vonnegut might not be razor sharp anymore – when he appeared on the Daily Show some months back, it appeared that Jon Stewart cut it short, seemingly afraid of what Vonnegut might say – but he still runs rings around most of the rest of…
US author's sales jump after Osama mentions book
Now, if only Osama Bin Laden would tell people they can find lots of the books they need to read at http://www.fuknbooks.com cd US author’s sales jump after Osama mentions book 20 Jan 2006 23:04:15 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted…
From the margins of society, a lust for literature
I am sometimes guilty of using my friends as a window to the world…this is, of course, hardly a cross section of any society. My friends are generally highly educated, well read, or at the very least more interested in understanding life than Wheel of Fortune…. Still, it is nice to imagine America heading in…