The biggest news out of the Subcontinent in years
Never mind the state of emergency, a writer in Pakistan was delighted to see Paris Hilton’s intervention on behalf of drunken Indian elephants.
Never mind the state of emergency, a writer in Pakistan was delighted to see Paris Hilton’s intervention on behalf of drunken Indian elephants.
Due to the aforementioned feral phase, I didn’t make it to the National Book Awards ceremony last night.
Although some indie bookstores applauded NY’s sales tax policy shift, Spitzer now reportedly says the state won’t go after web-based retailers.
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Norman Mailer’s foolproof steak recipe “scares the hell out of pets and children.”