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A sample verse: “The cats nestle close to their kittens now. The lambs have laid down with the sheep. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep.”

This fall Levi Johnston will release Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs, a tell-all book of his time with Mama Grizzly. “I want to tell the truth about my close relationship with the Palins,” Johnston, 20, says in a statement released by his publisher. “My sense of Sarah and my perplexing fall from grace – how …

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San Francisco’s A Different Light bookstore is said to be going out of business. The Castro’s A Different Light Bookstore, one of the few remaining LGBT bookstores in the United States, is apparently closing. This comes on the heels of the closure of the Mission’s Modern Times, another independent progressive bookstore. “Everything must go” signs were spotted in the store …

Arch homophobe Dr. Michael Brown promotes his new book, A Queer Thing Happened To America, which already has dozens of fawning reviews on Amazon. You’ve got to see the repulsive skit this clip opens with.

“I apologize that this situation has been created. It was a systemic oversight, in which ‘gay’ was on a list of filtered words. Certainly it makes absolute sense for you to include this word in your review. This is a no-brainer for us.” – Walmart spokesman Ravi Jariwala, responding to JMG reader and It Gets Better contributor Mark King, who …

JMG reader Mark S. King reports that Walmart’s website refused his review of the It Gets Better book until he removed the word “gay.” King, who contributed to the book with his openly gay brother, writes us: “My submission was nixed because I used the word ‘gay,’ which the site explained was ‘profanity.’ I felt properly chastised and removed the …

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According to a coming book by historian Robert Beachy, the genesis of the modern gay rights movement came in 19th century Germany. Modern conceptions of homosexuality began, ironically, with an anti-sodomy law. When the German empire was unified in 1871, the Imperial Criminal Code included a law prohibiting sexual penetration of one man by another. Questions about what types of …

Oklahoma state GOP Rep. Sally “Gays Are Worse Than Terrorists” Kern has self-published a book about her horrible treatment at the hands of those awful, awful homofascists. From the Amazon description of The Stoning Of Sally Kern: In January 2008, the pastor’s wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in Oklahoma City explaining that …

JMG reader Alex writes from Vancouver to share a peek at the It Gets Better book, which features his story in both English and Spanish. Advance copies are going out to the book’s contributors right now and it goes on sale across North America on March 22nd. Proceeds benefit the Trevor Project and the Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network. …

Borders Books will close 200 locations as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed today. Analysts say today’s actions may not save the company. The filing — which comes 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on Ann Arbor’s South State Street — gives the chain a chance to reorganize by slashing expensive leases and reducing its debt …

Just released is My Uncle’s Wedding, a new book intended to explain same-sex marriage to kids ages 4-8 who may be invited to attend the ceremony. “This children’s book is the perfect gift for any child who loves a good story and especially children with gay people in their family,” said Molly McKay, National Media Director for Marriage Equality USA. …

Believe it or not, it’s going to be a trilogy. Not by coincidence, the release date is April 15th. Also uncoincidentally, the trailer has been released during CPAC.

From the same company putting out Tea Party Review. Book synopsis: A hilarious and entertaining way for parents to sit down with their children and teach them the origins of the new Tea Party movement and the importance of standing up for liberty and the American Dream. Follow Tommy and Lou as they struggle to keep their swing set business …

Teen mother, abstinence proponent, and reality show star Bristol Palin is writing her memoirs at the age of 20. Hey, if Justin Bieber can do it… The memoir is set to come from William Morrow & Co., a subsidiary of HarperCollins, which published Sarah Palin’s first book, “Going Rogue: An American Life” and her second book “America by Heart: Reflections …

Borders Books is expected to close 150 stores and file for bankruptcy in the next week. Analysts blame the Amazon Kindle, sort of. Analysts have faulted Borders for being ill equipped to adapt to bookbuyers’ migration to digital formats and for having too many stores in an age when many shoppers prefer to buy even paper books on line from …

Pre-orders are now being taken. UPDATE: Profits from sales of the book go to the Trevor Project, the Gay & Lesbian Straight Education Network, and the ACLU.

In his coming book, Ron Reagan Jr. says that his father was showing the early signs of Alzheimer’s while still in office. Reagan Jr. says that he won’t discuss the book until its release, but U.S. News & World Report today published several excerpts discussing the former president’s state of mind while in office, closing with this paragraph from the …

“Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn’t hardly notice the other hipsters. Hipsters would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any hipster in that country. Strange hipsters would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder. …