I first heard about the hunger strike about a week ago. Someone Facebook-ed, tweeted or Google+ed that there was going to be a massive noise-making demonstration in New York City to show the world the sick, twisted inhumane torture that's going on right here in America. Yes, American citizens are...

"Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you

should like her? that but seeing you should love

her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should

grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?"

-- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene II

Every day...

We love us some NaNoWriMo. NaNo what, you say? National Novel Writing Month. Since 1999, every November, writers from coast to coast have been writing 50,000 word novels. In a month. Last year, over 200,000 inspired lunatics took keyboard in hand and tried to perform this seemingly impossible...

"Do I really need an author website?" We get asked that question every day by an author, or someone who wants to be one. Having spent lots and lots of time and energy constructing one ourselves, we are big believers in author websites, but we decided to take this question...

"We really dodged a bullet," I said as we got to the airport this morning and saw on the big board that our flight into Newark was ON TIME.

As soon as I realized what I'd said, my heart hit the pit of my plummeting stomach with headline after headline...

We're about halfway through our Pitchapalooza Rocks America Tour, and we've made a startling discovery. A staggering number of adults want to write books for kids. And approximately 99% of them have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They don't know the rules. They don't know the players. They don't...

When I first came out as an ex-sex worker, I started getting invited to prostitute and sex worker conferences. There are two distinct groups who inhabit this world: decriminalizationists and abolitionists. Decriminalizationist conferences are populated by academics, policy wonks and activists, plus a few current and former hos, hookers, call...

I was born in the 50s. I'm in my 50s. At the beginning of the 00s, my brother had to explain e-mails to me. It takes me an hour to accomplish electronically what it takes a 12-year-old 90 seconds to do. But about three years ago, like a dinosaur getting...

Lots of people wonder what it's like to be on book tour. The glamor, the glory, the groupies. So I thought I'd document what life is like on the road, on what turned out to be the longest day on in the life of myself, my partner-in-crime/co-author/wife Arielle, and Olive,...

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High-octane rant by bestselling author David Henry Sterry about his abusive relationship with Steve Jobs
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Limp as a junkie after a month-long binge, I bid a fond adieu to World Cup 2010, glad to get back to my life, but sad to see the party's over. The world is in so much trouble these days, it was great to take a month's semi-respite from worrying...

As the ringing of in our collective heads from the beloved/hated vuvuzelas subsides, let's take a look at the most important thing we've learned about the greatest soccer players in the world. Who's hot. And who's not.

(picture from Sistemastintegrales)

ALL-HOTTIE TEAM
DIEGO...

In one of America's leading media outlets, I recently read a sad excuse for a World Cup blog, in which a writer took the wild and crazy position that soccer, the sport that has the whole wide world on the edge of its seat, is in fact, boring. Truth is,...

Landycakes. That used to be Landon Donovan's nickname. As often as he was acknowledged as one of the most talented soccer players America has ever produced, historically he was also perceived as being soft, petulant, churlish, a bit of a puff pastry. He was criticized for wilting when the spotlight...

Now that the dust has settled on a group stage that left American fans drained, crazed, and finally in a state of religious ecstasy, what's next for Team USA, flush off one of the greatest comeback victories in United States sports history? Yes, they were robbed blind by the evil...

Watching the dispirited, sad, frankly pathetic display the English team put on against Algeria, I couldn't help but wonder what we can learn about this nation that once ruled the world. Over and over again they looked like over-privileged, over-priced, over-pampered aristocrats, with all the skill in the world, and...

Gary Stein is an American. He teaches high school in Missoula, Montana, for God's sake; you can't get much more American than that. But he was raised in Long Island, one of the first communities in America to catch soccer fever. And he caught...

USA fans all over the world were exhausted by USA's dramatic come-from-behind tie. Once again, like an inexperienced house painter, they trapped themselves in a corner with lackadaisical, idiotic, dopey defense. Coach Bob Bradley, who made inspired substitutions late in the game, must figure out a way to get Team...

A furious Congress, with an even angrier President Obama behind them, announced unprecedented punishment against British Petroleum for its part in what is shaping up to be the worst man-made catastrophe in American history. In addition to being responsible for cleanup of the Gulf Shore waters to the tune of...