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Posts Tagged ‘Satire’

Literary Satire Gone Too Far?

By Jane • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

The New Yorker’s cover this month features about every Obama slur possible on its cover. It’s obviously meant to be satiric but is it? My thinking is that if you put McCain on there as a Manchurian candidate, while ironic and satirical, it would also be offensive. Of course, media shouldn’t shy [...]



Chuck Norris to Engage Penguin in Fight

By Jane • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

Author Ian Spector wrote “The Truth About Chuck Norris” based on an internet chainmail of mythical facts featuring Norris. I.e., factoid no. 1 is “Guns don’t kill people. Chuck Norris kills people.”
Norris is unhappy about the publication of this book and has sued Penguin, the publisher of the book, because it portrays [...]



REVIEW: The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany

By Janine • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category

Dear Ms. Mullany,
Like Jayne (who recently reviewed this book), I read and enjoyed your debut, Dedication, shortly before the Signet Regency line went kaput. I had liked the book enough to hope that you might get a contract before too long. Luckily for me, not one, but two publishers were smart enough to [...]



Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Excerpts

By Jane • Mar 23rd, 2007 • Category: Misc

Yes but No But Yes put together a list of the Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels. The list includes references to the Joker’s Boner, Wonder Woman’s vanity, Archie beating off three other guys, and Robin exposing himself.
Part of me read the panels with some disbelief. Surely, these were photoshopped, but alas, no. [...]