Book plug: The Big Short (it was stupidity, stupid!) - Salon
I wrote this as a comment on Stellaa's post, Goldman Sachs Gets A Scolding, Politicians Keep The Money , but then saw that she'd posted it Friday and that probly my comment would get lost in the spam ad section. As I'm not qualified to review this or

Molly Ringwald's new book is 'Pretty' darned good - Deseret News
of that totally awesome trifecta of '80s-era John Hughes reference to Ringwald's Hughesian past in "Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick" — save for a humorous, albeit passing, Emilio Estevez

NY court: Swedish author's book is substantially - Minneapolis Star Tribune
release of "The Catcher in the Rye" in 1951 brought him unwanted public attention. Colting, who writes under the name John David California and lives near Gothenburg, Sweden, has said his book is a commentary and parody of Salinger's novel, a

For Rosalynn Carter, four-decade fight for better - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The former first lady details that 1966 meeting and her work since in a new book, "Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis." It is Mrs. Carter's fifth book and her second dealing with mental health. Mrs. Carter, 82, says that while there