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...Poon has announced the completion of its second parody novel, Nightlight: A Parody, a satiric take on the oh-so-popular Twilight phenomenon. The book follows Belle Goose, a young girl who becomes convinced the new boy in school is a vampire and her soulmate, despite evidence that he thinks girls are "repulsive." The Edward character from the real novel goes by Edwart in this version, a name which the book itself informs us is "Much funnier than Edward...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: EXCERPT: Lampoon's New Book | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...working on? The next project is tentatively titled The Chinchilla Girl in Exile. It's about a 9-year-old girl who has hypertrichosis, which is a condition in which you have lots and lots of hair. She looks kind of like Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. She's pretty hairy, and she's been homeschooled because her family doesn't think she is going to succeed socially in school. But she's very plucky, and she wants to have a normal life, so they reluctantly allow her to go to school. I was working on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Poon has announced the completion of its second parody novel, Nightlight: A Parody, a satiric take on the oh-so-popular Twilight phenomenon. The book follows Belle Goose, a young girl who becomes convinced the new boy in school is a vampire and her soulmate, despite evidence that he thinks girls are "repulsive." The Edward character from the real novel goes by Edwart in this version, a name which the book itself informs us is "Much funnier than Edward...

Author: By Luis Urbina | Title: EXCERPT: Lampoon's New Book | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Indonesians will have to wait a little longer to see U.S. President Barack Obama indulge in a bowl of bakso - a kind of Indonesian meatball soup - and visit the neighborhoods in Jakarta where he spent time as a young boy. Anticipation of visit from Obama after he attends an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore in November was high until the Indonesian press got wind of his decision to reschedule the trip until sometime next year. "Many people will be disappointed but I think they understand that he has a lot on his plate back home," says Dennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Will Wait Longer for Obama | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...should step down. But Mitterrand has always maintained his novel was intended as a kind of full disclosure of things he'd seen and experienced. While the portion of the book dealing with prostitution might worry some readers - "I got into the habit of paying for boys," he writes - Mitterrand argues that his use of the word boy referred to younger men rather than minors. Many older gay men use the expression in that way, he says. "If the National Front drags me through the mud, it's an honor," Mitterrand said. "But if a leftist legislator is dragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitterrand: A Friend to Polanski — and Young Boys? | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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