The winner of the Best Translated Book Award will be announced tonight at 19:00 at Idlewild Books in New York.        As you'll recall, the shortlisted titles are:        [Highlighted titles are under review at the complete review] Anonymous Celebrity by Ignácio de Loyola...

Note that the book is featured in the movie's poster, typical during Hollywood's Golden Age. Walt Disney may turn in his grave or thaw and drop deader if and when he learns that Bambi, the book he adapted to create the animation classic, was written by a man who is solidly credited as being the anonymous author of a celebrated and notorious work of German erotica. In 1906, an erotic memo...

Non-fiction - paperback; Virago; 311 pages; 2005.It's true: the war is rolling towards Berlin. What was yesterday a distant rumble has now become a constant roar. We breathe the din; our ears are deafened to all but the heaviest guns. We've long given up trying to figure out where they are positioned. We are ringed in by barrels, and the circle is growing smaller by the hour. So begins o...

Avatar was robbed of the Best Picture Oscar last night. Law enforcement would normally be out searching for the culprit, but the paddy wagon wouldn't fit the 5000+ Academy members accused of the crime. Anonymous officials commented that the small, inconsequential winning picture, The Hurt Locker will unlikely be a topic of conversation within months and will be completely forgotten by next year.

Eve will indeed be here with her insights on YA literature today… but unfortunately not until a little later.  Due to circumstances beyond her control, she’ll only be able to post this evening. In the meantime, for the benefit of all those anonymous readers who find us by googling for “bunnies”, here you are. This image by

Linking to a GalleyCat post yesterday, Jezebel writer Jenna Sauers (the blogger behind the site's Anonymous Model feature) noted that she had been approached by the producers of a new Lady Gaga book--an opportunity she turned down. Here's an excerpt from Sauers' post: "An image-heavy book about Lady Gaga and her style is being rushed into production for a fall release, where it will...

Anonymous, the new project by 2012 and Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, posits the 17th Earl of Oxford as the real author of the Bard's works Ronald Emmerich likes throwing punches at big targets. He subjected planet Earth to alien attack in Independence Day, stuck it in the deep freeze in The Day After Tomorrow, and gave it a thorough rinse through in last year's 2012. Now he&...

In the last two to three months I have a received a wealth of comments. All from Anonymous. He or she is very devoted to this blog and often times comments on blogs that he or she has already commented on! He or she also posts extremely long comments that have nothing to do with the actual blog post - dedication I tell you. I've learnt about growing my 'bits' (unfortunately I'm...

       As, for example, Lizzy Davies reports in The Guardian, Anonymous buyer pays £4 million for Casanova's uncensored diaries. (See also the BNF's (French) press release (warning ! dreaded pdf format !).) The papers, transferred to the BNF on Monday in 13 protective boxes, are the uncensored, uncorrected basis of what went on to become the Veneti...

Mystery donor presents 18th-century seducer's 3,700 pages of memoirs to French national library For centuries they exerted the same knee-trembling pull on collectors and curators as their rakishly charming author had on the women of 18th-century Europe. But the international battle to pull off the ultimate literary conquest ended in Paris today as the French national library announced it had ...