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In an effort to get school kids to read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, a new version edited by a Twain scholar will excise the novel’s 219 usages of the n-word. Finn is rarely taught in public schools anymore due to discomfort with the word, even though most agree its use is meant as an attack on slavery. Twain himself defined …

“There are so many homosexuals, both active and celibate, at all levels of clergy and Church hierarchy that the church would never be able to function if they were really to exclude all of them from ministry.” – Father Alberto Cutie (his real name), in his new book which slams the Catholic Church as misogynistic and hypocritical. Cutie left the …

Copyranter notes that Lady Gaga’s biography is being promoted in Australia’s meat cases. OK, then.

Harvard police say a section of LGBT books were destroyed in the university library by a vandal who doused the shelves with urine. Security staff at Lamont Library said in a report filed with campus police on Friday that it appeared someone poured urine on the books on Nov. 24. An empty bottle was found nearby. A police spokesman tells …

Sarah Palin thinks that because she got Gawker to stop leaking excerpts of her book, the U.S. government should be able to stop the release of potentially damaging information by WikiLeaks. Which is hosted in Sweden, where “it is forbidden according to Swedish law for any administrative authority to make inquiries about the sources of any type of newspaper.”

Punk legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for Just Kids, her “sweetly evocative” memoir of her life with the late legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Accepting the award to applause and cheers, Ms. Smith — clearly the favorite of the night — choked up as she recalled her days as a clerk in the Scribner’s bookstore in …

Well, that’s what Buzzfeed thinks it looks like.

Courtesy of the publisher, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Mary Ann In Autumn, the latest in legendary gay author Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City series. Mary Ann In Autumn is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. More than twenty years have passed since Mary Ann left her husband and child in San Francisco for the allure of a …

In his new memoir, Bush II recounts how Dick Cheney warned him that his daughter Mary was gay, just in case that was a deal-breaker for being chosen as a running mate. By the time Dick came to the ranch to deliver his final report, I had decided to make another run at him. As he finished his briefing, I …

Courtesy of the author, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is an autographed copy of Boy Does World, the new memoir from Metro Weekly’s editor and publisher, Sean Bugg. Boy Does World is now available online and at booksellers. It’s a big world. Somebody’s gotta do it. As a kid in rural Kentucky, Sean Bugg dreamed of the day he would make …

Dubya’s memoir launches today and The Daily Beast has ranked the best-selling books by politicians in the last ten years. Dubya’s publisher is shipping 1.5M copies for the initial run, but of course no one knows if those will actually sell through.

The above is an excerpt from the new “book” by Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino. Soon to be a New York Times bestseller. SRSLY.

Amazon has launched an iPhone app which allows users to scan the barcode of any title found in a bookstore and order it directly from them instead. The latest version of Amazon Mobile, 1.2.8, contains a bar code scanner in its search screen. As with bar code scanners in other mobile apps, Amazon Mobile uses your iPhone’s camera to take …

Q Salt Lake reports that over 100 Wal-Mart stores are carrying the anti-gay children’s book written by the wife of the president the Mormon anti-gay group Standard Of Liberty. Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality by Janice Barrett Graham was written to “help shed the clear light of truth on today’s dark and tangled ideas …

Long-running LGBT publishing house Alyson Books is restructuring as an e-books only company following its acquisition by Here Media several years ago. Many of Alyson’s authors have long-overdue books, including Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, who went very public with his complaints last month. John Knoebel, v-p of consumer marketing at Here Media, has been named interim publisher until a …

Pretty gory for a book ad, eh?

New from Young Heart Books is With My Rifle By My Side, a children’s guide to the importance of the Second Amendment and the right to blow away fellow humans. Unsurprisingly, the book is from God’s Gentle People™. “Young Heart Books encourage the young to seek the Lord in prayer, worship in church, and love the liberties provided by the …

If you want to download a graphic novelization of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest to your iPad, you get the above blacked out images of men kissing. And that’s only after you tell Apple that you are over the age of 17. Gizmodo has the story, as well as some screenshots of non-censored straight graphic novels. (Tipped by …