Hah! Scooter's bestial novel subsidized by National Endowment for the Arts

[TacticalPeek]

Bwaaahahahahahaha!

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The Apprentice

Copyright © 1996 by Lewis Libby

Publication of this volume is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Significant additional support has been provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the McKnight Foundation, and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals. Graywolf Press is a member agency of United Arts, Saint Paul. To these organizations and individuals who make our work possible, we offer heartfelt thanks.



Rev. Wildmon's silence must mean that he endorses bestiality. Typical Republican.

:evilgrin:

[melody]

1. THIS IS TOO PERFECT! THIS IS A GIFT FROM THE GAWDS!!

Here it is - their ultimate hypocrisy in full view! I love it! Thanks for posting that.

[beam me up scottie]

2. BWAHAHAHAHAHA !

Thank you!

[SoCalDem]

3. Is Scoooooter from MN??

He needs to give the money back...:)

[katinmn]

42. Not that I know of. Why was he feeding from our trough???

That is one strange deal.

[northernsoul]

49. no @#$!! way is this sicko from Wellstone Country

As a Minnesota taxpayer, I want to know why my hard-earned dollars went to support this sleaze.

[spindrifter]

4. What a friggin' outrage!

Was this guy employed when he wrote that trivial piece of crap? Just how much, I wonder, did he rake in from all the rest of the funds--especiallly "other generous contributions..."Seriously, if the guy was working at the time he was getting his patronage money, then he is in the running for King of the Double Dippers. Also, Minnesota? Home of Prairie Home Companion? Yikes, Lutherans!

[spindrifter]

5. What a friggin' outrage!

Was this guy employed when he wrote that trivial piece of crap? Just how much, I wonder, did he rake in from all the rest of the funds--especiallly "other generous contributions..."Seriously, if the guy was working at the time he was getting his patronage money, then he is in the running for King of the Double Dippers. Also, Minnesota? Home of Prairie Home Companion? Yikes, Lutherans!

[chalky]

6. "the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund"?!!!??!?

When will we see the Reader's Digest condensed version?

:rofl:

eta: from Wiki--
"Reader's Digest is known for presenting a consistent view of the world that is politically conservative, upbeat, and pro-American."

Oh, reeeaally?

[spindrifter]

7. Shows how outraged I was--I posted x 2. Sorry.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Suckin' hard on that government teat

What would Grover Norquist say about this? Maybe he'd drown Libby in a bathtub.

[aden_nak]

9. Shit, I could write a better novel than that by accident.

[walldude]

21. Whats that saying about 1000 monkeys and 1000 typewriters...

I bet 10 monkeys could have done better than this and faster too.

[Craig3410]

98. It's...

"A thousand monkeys, typing on a thousand typewriters will eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare."


His book? Three monkeys, ten minutes.

[aden_nak]

116. 10 monkeys, three hours.

[Goblinmonger]

104. Best "bumper sticker" I've seen in a while. n/t

[tanyev]

10. Recommend!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Scooter is now an official national laughingstock.

"Significant additional support has been provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"

Mellon? As in Mellon-Scaife? As in bulk book sales Richard?

This can get better, but not much. :evilgrin:

[SoCalDem]

12. same family..maybe same guy..

:shrug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. It would add to the irony.

Seeing as he's a funder of all these self-righteous neocon authors...

[spindrifter]

20. Yes, M*llon-Scaife, the Neocon People

Scooter is neocon-financed all the way.

[acmejack]

48. The old John Birch Society benefactors.

Ultra hard right line when the neos were still children.

[melody]

31. I think Richard Mellon is Andrew's grand-nephew

Andrew had a brother named Richard, and I believe that Richard was his grandfather.

The Mellons are all filthy oil rich bastards.

And I say this as someone who has "remaindered" a couple of titles to the Mellon-Scaife book suppository.

Andrew donated a shempload of cash to the National Gallery, too. It's his foundation that "funds" the "arts", in part through the NEA.

How the hell Scooter's ursine pedo porn novel got there? Mucho dinero. No other way.

What fricking hypocrites, the lot of them.

[RaleighNCDUer]

64. I'm wondering, did he really write this crap?

Or was it ghost-written and his name put on it to justify funds channeled to him through Mellon? Maybe all the sick shit in there was the ghost writer's little joke on him.

On second thought, no. He wrote it. Only these wacks could write this stuff.

[ClintonTyree]

74. I'm betting that he wrote it himself..........

he wouldn't put his name on trash like that without his ego being attached to it as well. Irving wrote it, and it gives us quite a peak into the Conservative mind, doesn't it?
It's amazing that all of these wonderful, wholesome, Christian, Conservative utopian organizations and individuals would lend support to such a sexually twisted, treasonous deviant like Irving Libby. What does that say about their commitment to their principles, that they're just a front for more devious and wicked enterprises? Shame, SHAME on the Readers Digest, the Melon family et al. Promoting this sort of smut is the what drags a society down, leads it down the path of wickedness and destroys the American Family. :scared:
Have they no shame? :cry: What about the children, what will we tell the children? :cry: :cry: :cry:

[melody]

97. No real writer could have published this garbage - or would have

It takes real money to produce that kind of bilge.

[tuvor]

13. Blatant hypocrisy = my recommendation n/t

[aquart]

14. Do you have a link?

[TacticalPeek]

18. Sorry, no.

I just copied it from the 1996 first printing I checked out of the library.

:)

[ClintonTyree]

76. Those are worth some real money.........

I heard original copies are going for hundreds on Ebay. It would be a shame if you "lost" it and had to repay the original cost of the book.
Nah, it's not worth it. That's sounds like something a Republican would do, devious, sneaky only in it for the money.
Still, it would be a shame if crap that like were left to circulate in a decent society. I'd at least draw a mustache on Irving's picture with a magic-marker.

[TacticalPeek]

78. LOL!

I'll admit the thought crossed our mind, since we cannot find a copy at second-hand stores.

But the price balloon seems to be deflating now, and in the final analysis, there actually is at least some money that I don't want.

[ClintonTyree]

105. More like the balloon popped!

Two weeks ago people were paying upward of a thousand dollars for a copy, now it seems they're fetching around $25-$75 depending on whether it's paperback of hardcover. I'd hate to be one of the fools that paid over $1,000 for a copy of that tripe! Many people have much more money than brains and it seems they almost always lean to the right.
You're correct about "some money that I don't want". Money tainted with the stink of one, Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby, would not be favorable to the advancement of positive Karma.

[tuvor]

15. Someone with an amazon account, please add this to the reviews! n/t

[upi402]

17. PROOF of god, thanks for this

recommended

[shanti]

19. WTF???

good god, these cons are sick....:-(

[walldude]

22. What moran gave this guy a grant and on what basis?

Really, because I may just have to become a novelist.

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. I'd sure like to see the grant proposal

for this rag. Something stinks here.

[NVMojo]

89. yeah, really, I'd like to see the proposal he used

[Dora]

60. Hello, Everyone? Libby may not have received any NEA money.

If you'll reread that page closely, it says that "publication" of the book was supported by... yada, yada, yada. It does not say that the author was given direct financial support.

I work for a publisher. We have recieved NEH monies, and we also have endowments that we draw on to support the publication of some of our titles. ALWAYS, when we use donated monies (whether public or private) to subsidize the production of a book, we give clear acknowledgement on the inside. It's SOP for every publisher.

If Libby received direct NEA support, that blurb would be phrased differently. Additionally, if Libby has an author's acknowledgements page in the book, he would acknowledge any individual NEA support there. I think the NEA would have Libby's name on their website as an individual recipient of funds for the years in question if they did give him money. I haven't done a search there to find out if this is true or not; I'll leave that to somebody else. A phone call might clear it up too.

Graywolf is an esteemed small publisher that has, like other publishers in the past and future, had the mis/fortune to publish a title attached to infamy. They're also one of the few mid-list publishers still publishing poetry, so I have to add that I hope the sales from their reprinting of this title helps their bottom line, but may they never sell enough to have to pay a red cent in royalties to Libby himself.

[Skinner]

62. Could you explain this a little more clearly?

I'm not sure I understand your post. The book carries this text: "Publication of this volume is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts."

It seems to me that the book would not carry the text if it did not benefit from the NEA grant in some way. How do these grants work? Who gets them, and for what?

Is it correct to conclude that Scooter Libby benefitted, either directly or indirectly, from a grant from the NEA? If not, why not?

[Dora]

80. The book benefitted from an NEA grant, yes.

You are correct; the book did benefit from the NEA grant and from Minnesota State Arts Board. The benefit to Scooter Libby, however, may have been entirely indirect. There is no indication in the acknowledgement that he directly benefited from those grants/endowments. My caveat: I haven't yet seen any statement from Graywolf clarifying what their NEA funds or MSAB funds were earmarked for, what sort of subsidies were applied to this book, or how they were applied. Such statements may not be forthcoming. Maybe somebody should call?...

Hypothetical Example: Let's say that Dora Books is a non-profit publisher seeking to expand its list. I've published some small literary prize-winners, I have a fair amount of support from my local and state philanthropic community, and I apply to the NEA or NEH for a grant. Woo-hoo! I've just received a grant of $750,000 to be used as an endowment to support the publication of first fiction from writers outside the traditional literary community. I use the interest from that endowment to subsidize the production expense of publishing books (also following the terms of the endowment) in hardcover because previously I had been limiting myself to paperback releases only. How much endowment money do I use as a production subsidy? The jaw-droppingly meagre amount of $3,000.

Ten years later, an author of one of my books goes postal. In the subsequent media frenzy, it is revealed that Dora Books published a book by this author, and - gasp! - the hardcover release was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts! I am deluged with email and letters and phone calls: people want to know how I could possibly give NEA money to such a hateful creature. My explanation is this: I didn't give money to the author, I subsidized the production of the book. In Other Words: The benefit to the book was direct, and the benefit to the author was indirect.

About me: I'm an assistant at a non-profit press. My information is coming from my observations of the industry as issues arise at my workplace. My knowledge may or may not be true for the industry at large, and I welcome corrections from others more knowledgeable than me.

[Dora]

82. Addendum: Bowker's Books in Print says....

This is a direct cut/paste from Bowker's Books in Print. I can surmise from reading this that Graywolf published this in cloth only, and then sold the paperback rights to St. Martins. St. Martins probably saw this as a pretty safe acquisition - Libby's name was bound to be in the press a lot, and they took a gamble that they would have some sales. I'll bet that gamble has already paid off.

If you want to buy a copy, but don't want to wait for St. Martin's reprinting, it's entirely possible that Graywolf still has its hardcover inventory available for sale.

***************************************

The Apprentice: A Novel

Author: Libby, Lewis Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN or UPC: 0-312-28453-5(Out of Stock Indefinitely)
Format: Trade Paper Date: Feb 2002 Price: $ 12.95 Market: United States
Availability: Available for Order
Dewey #: 813/.54 ISBN 13: 978-0-312-28453-4



The Apprentice: A Novel

Author: Libby, Lewis Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN or UPC: 1-55597-245-4(Out of Print)
Format: Trade Cloth Date: Aug 1996 Price: N/A Market: Canada
Availability: Readily Available
LC Class #: PS3562.I163A86 1996 Dewey #: 813/.54

[TacticalPeek]

71. Scooter does not mention the NEA in his Acknowledgements.

While he may or may not have personally received monies from the NEA, it is certainly accurate to say that the publication of his yucky novel was subsidized by federal taxes and Minnesota taxpayers.

I believe some of the previous NEA art "scandals" involved grants to a museum, for example, to mount an exhibition, not necessarily direct grants to the scandalous artiste him/herself.

[MinneapolisMatt]

23. Can someone explain

the Minnesota connection?! That disturbs me.

Matt

[eShirl]

24. is it where the book publisher is?

that's my guess

[grasswire]

25. priceless!!

PLEASE send that to Garrison Keillor. He MUST HAVE THAT INFO.

Olbermann, too, but Keillor will reach a whole audience with it.

I believe you can leave commentary at PHC's web site.

[chat_noir]

33. Garrison Keillor

Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by over 4 million listeners each week on over 558 public radio stations, and is heard abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks In Europe and the Far East.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/



Garrison Keillor: mainstay of the American satiric opposition

Just before Christmas last year, Garrison Keillor, Garry Trudeau and Al Franken met for dinner at a New York hotel. Despite the absence of Michael Moore, this informal meeting of friends was in effect the high command of the American satiric opposition in session. Trudeau's treatment of the Bush administration in his Doonesbury cartoon strip is well known to Guardian readers and the thesis behind Franken's best selling book, Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (2003), needs little further explanation. However, to many people in the UK, Keillor would not be naturally bracketed in this category. He is more generally seen as a rather folksy and avuncular figure whose tales of life in his fictional Minnesota home town, Lake Wobegon, have provided a soothingly wry view of life in small-town America. That description of him still applies, but particularly in the US Keillor has also built himself a reputation as a consistently astringent critic of the Right.

"But when I talk about politics it is in a very light-handed and in-passing way," his reassuringly rich-timbred voice slowly deadpans in his apartment the next day. "Republicans might be heathens and out to destroy all that we hold dear, but that doesn't mean we need to take them seriously. Or be bitter or vituperative just because they are swine. I think one can still have friends who are Republicans."

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1162199,00.html

[Sabriel]

59. Talk about a dream dinner party!

What I wouldn't have given to be a fly on the wall there.

[TacticalPeek]

26. Kick night.

:kick:

[Daphne08]

27. You've got to be kidding!

Very interesting. :eyes:

[Kurovski]

28. Libby went out to "prove" the NEA is a dirty bird?

[oc2002]

51. That seems to be the point that is overlooked here if I understand this ..

It look to me that Libby wrote a sick pathetic book with the intention of publishing it with the NEA money to prove that the right wing is right about who the NEA gives funds to.

So, in thier own sick way the demonstrated how NEA gives grants away to sick fuckers like Libby...

[Kurovski]

91. Not to say that Scooty didn't enjoy his foray into freakville,

it's in keeping with some common stomach-turning Republican values regarding young'uns:

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

It does also--as is pointed out in this thread--reveal some typical RW hypocrisy.

[melody]

99. Oh that will be his excuse

But I seriously doubt that was the case.

I think Scooter's just a perv without a conscience.

[Catamount]

29. My God...

and now that I've written a novel...and need some funds the NEFTA barely exists, due to W's budget cuts!

:cry: :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[Bozita]

30. Hint: Write a check to the GOP. Then, watch your mailbox.

Everything is for sale.

[thinkingwoman]

34. The Irony Gods

have fallen off of their chairs and are now rolling around on the floor, holding their sides, and giggling like a pack of 8 year old girls.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

35. "arragghrrorwr"

"arragghrrorwr" Means never to having to say, "I'm Sorry."

Sticks and stones may break Irving bones, but bears and deer arouse him!

When a democrat has sex it's an "abomination."

When A GOPer has sex it's just "arragghrrorwr," as usual. "Move on. Nothing much to see here!"

I'll bet Scooty-Poot's book on animal husbandry has forewards by Ted No-gent, Moses Heston and the entire faith based NRA/KKKlergy.

[smoogatz]

36. Good God. Graywolf is actually a good press, most of the time--

they publish a lot of first rate poetry, and some interesting experimental fiction. Like all small presses, it's a shoestring operation--so they seek grant money wherever they can find it. The other interesting thing to note is that, like all small presses, they pay tiny advances and would be close to the publisher of last resort for a first novelist.

[Chipper Chat]

37. Aha!! The republican anti-smut people are the smut-peddlers!

I cant wait to hear comments from Bill Bennett.

[mod mom]

38. Garrison Keillor and Al Franken will enjoy this irony! nt

[Skinner]

39. Good catch, TacticalPeek.

A request: Would it be possible for you to take a digital photo of this copyright, and post it on DU?

[TacticalPeek]

40. Excellent idea.

[Skinner]

43. Nice.

Thanks :thumbsup:

I've uploaded it to our server, and I'm going to link to it from our homepage.

[TacticalPeek]

44. Cool.

:)

[Skinner]

45. If you'd like, I can edit it into your OP.

Let me know if you would like me to do so.

[TacticalPeek]

46. Certainly.

A capital idea.

[Skinner]

47. Done.

:thumbsup:

[Botany]

41. A mother bear tells her cubs to stay away from humans with a .....

.... Scooter tale.




The NEA? :rofl:

[leveymg]

50. Let's not forget NEH Chair Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel, "Sisters"

This is hardly surprising. Lynne was Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986-93. Libby's book was probably underwritten through some of Lynne's old connections. Found this reference with an extract from her 1981 novel:

Gay Lesbian You Are Here: BellaOnline > News & Politics > Gay Lesbian > Articles http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19337.asp

Jason P. Ruel
BellaOnline's Gay Lesbian Editor

Sisters - A Book By Lynne Cheney

“Sisters” was penned in 1981. It’s hard to find a copy today, but Amazon says they will give it a shot for you if you want a copy. It’s been said the Repubos are buying them up to keep the 2nd lady from having to admit to this embarrassment. The Canadian publisher was going to issue a second printing this year, but when the Mrs. got wind of it she called it to a screeching halt.
SNIP

The protagonist, Sophie Dymond, is obviously bisexual as she makes love to her deceased sister’s former boyfriend (outside of marriage I might add), and doesn’t shy away from sex with women either.

Some excerpts:

The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve crossing a dark cathedral stage -- no, Eve and Eve, loving one another as they would not be able to once they ate of the fruit and knew themselves as they truly were. She felt curiously moved, curiously envious of them. She had never to this moment thought Eden a particularly attractive paradise, based as it was on naiveté, but she saw that the women in the cart had a passionate, loving intimacy forever closed to her. How strong it made them. What comfort it gave.

The young woman was heavily powdered, but quite attractive, a curvesome creature, rounded at bosom and cheek. When she smiled, even her teeth seemed puffed and rounded, like tiny ivory pillows.

Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl.

Seems pretty tame compared to Scooter's polymorphously perverse imaginings. But, the group around Cheney never claimed to be Fundamentalists or Puritans. They are merely amoral to the extreme.

[Dora]

54. Can you correct your subject line please?

Lynne Cheney was chair of the NEH, not the NEA.

Thanks!

[leveymg]

55. Thanks for catching that. Done.

My bad.

[wordpix]

83. Lynn Cheney knows about the "anger and imperatives of men" i.e. DickieBoy

"Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men."

LOL

[leveymg]

110. As if anyone actually spoke that way, even in the 19th Century.

What a twit - this dialogue is too funny.

[lakeguy]

52. you mean my tax dollars went to libby for this? typical hypocritical

rethug. i guess he used to be a dem but still!

[sexybomber]

53. Maybe I missed something...

:wtf: Scooter Libby wrote a book about beastiality? Enlighten me, please?

[apnu]

57. yeah his book has a young girl and a bear

Check out this New Yorker review: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_collins

[leveymg]

58. There's a passage that I'd rather not describe involving bears.

Here's an interesting review:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9004

Libby has a lot to live up to as a conservative author of erotic fiction. As an article in SPY magazine pointed out in 1988, from Safire (“ finally came to him in the bed and shouted ‘Arragghrrorwr!’ in his ear, bit his neck, plunged her head between his legs and devoured him”) to Buckley (“I’d rather do this with you than play cards”) to Liddy (“T’sa Li froze, her lips still enclosing Rand’s glans . . .”) to Ehrlichman (“ ‘It felt like a little tongue’ ”) to O’Reilly (“Okay, Shannon Michaels, off with those pants”), extracurricular creative writing has long been an outlet for ideas that might not fly at, say, the National Prayer Breakfast. In one of Lynne Cheney’s books, a Republican vice-president dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.

It took Libby more than twenty years to write “The Apprentice,” which is set in a remote Japanese province in the winter of 1903. The book is brimming with quasi-political intrigue and antique locutions-“The girl who wore the cloak of yellow fur”; “one wore backward a European hat”-that make the phrase a “former Hill staffer,” by comparison, seem straightforward.

Like his predecessors, Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, “turds,” armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, “At length he walked around to the deer’s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his penis. He began to piss in the snow just in front of the deer’s nostrils.”

Homoeroticism and incest also figure as themes. The main female character, Yukiko, draws hair on the “mound” of a little girl. The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter. Many things glisten (mouths, hair, evergreens), quiver (a “pink underlip,” arm muscles, legs), and are sniffed (floorboards, sheets, fingers). The cast includes a dwarf, and an “assistant headman” who comes to restore order after a crime at the inn. (Might this character be autobiographical? And, if so, would that have made Libby the assistant headman or the assistant headman’s assistant?)

[ClintonTyree]

106. He worked on this for over twenty years?

:wtf: You've got to be kidding me! :eyes: Irving, your time could have been much better spent rearranging your sock drawer or something akin to that.
Let's hope that you'll have much more time available in a Federal Penitentiary soon to write the sequel. The literary world breathlessly awaits your next contribution to insipid, trashy literature.

[apnu]

56. A Republican looking for a handout? It figures.

These bastards love to take, but never give back. Or even better, use their own considerable wealth to pay their ways.

No wonder the deficit is so smegging high!

[JPZenger]

61. Readers Digest and Mellon Foundation

It is really interesting that the Readers Digest and Mellon Foundations funded a work of fiction. They are both arch-conservative organizations.

[peacetalksforall]

63. Here's a link to the books Graywolf Press has published.

http://www.graywolfpress.org/component/option,com_phpshop/page,shop.browse/category_id,9acc43383364035e9993a61305bca462/

This is a link to their purpose.

http://www.graywolfpress.org/Company_Info/About_Graywolf/103/

This is a paragraph from it:

Graywolf Press was incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in 1984, and in 1985, thanks in part to generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and from local philanthropic organizations, Graywolf moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota.

This is a link to their submission guidelines:

http://www.graywolfpress.org/Company_Info/Submission_Guidelines/115/

[JPZenger]

65. Great Reviews on www.amazon.com

Write your own review of this book on www.amazon.com. Just type "A. Lewis Libby" into their search box.

Here are two great reviews that are already on amazon:

"Reviewer: Annabelle Coulter (Podunk, Mississippi)

For those who enjoy right-wing erotica, such as The Starr Report and Bill O'Reilly's newsroom sex tale "Those Who Trespass", Scooter Libby's "The Apprentice" is sure to please. Clearly inspired by his experiences in the White House, Mr. Libby uses vivid imagery and poetic language to take his readers deep inside a world of political intrigue, child prostitution, kiddie rape, and bestiality. The cigar scene in The Starr Report set the bar high, but Mr. Libby topples it completely with his titillating depictions of young girls being raped by bears. In a scene sure to anger PETA, a man has sex with a deer and urinates in its nose.

If you like your novels nasty and neoconservative, "The Apprentice" will not disappoint."
-------
"In the latest New Yorker, Lauren Collins summarizes the novel's sex scenes:

"The main female character draws hair on the 'mound' of a little girl," Collins reports. "The brothers of a dead samurai have sex with his daughter." Meanwhile, "certain passages can better be described as reminiscent of Penthouse Forum," Collins writes. "Other sex scenes are less conventional."

Collins quotes from the indicted aide's novel: "At age 10 the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest."

[wordpix]

94. hahahaha---wonder if these excerpts will come up in Libby's trial, that

would be a hoot.

[japple]

118. The reviews on amazon are almost as funny as the ones for Frist's

book. Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0742533360/qid=1132084805/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/104-9335121-1084726?v=glance&s=books

[peacetalksforall]

66. The book is not on the Graywolf Press website by author, title, or book

number, There are 0 results and the search function doesn't appear to be a book ordering function - it does appear to be a 'find the book on our website' function. Curious.

[Tess49]

67. I noticed that, too. It also says the web page is supported by a grant

from the Bush Foundation. Would that be BFEE? Or some other Bush family?

[kevinbgoode]

68. HOLY MAPPLETHORPE! ! !

[MADem]

90. Lord, I thought it was just me who thought that!!!

So, just so we all understand:

Crucifix + pee = End of the World as we know it.

Bear in cage + poke bear penis with stick + bear sexually assaults a ten year old child = ART!! HIGH ART!!! Worthy of a federal GRANT!!!!!

Someone needs to alert OLBERMANN. Anyone got a direct line to him???

[ClayZ]

69. Family Values exposed!

I hope his rap sheet number is longer than his Library of Congress number.

May he be sentenced to a prison with no typewriters.

What a :puke:

[uncle ray]

70. just curious, being i haven't seen anybody else ask,

why are, what appear to be later pub. dates, photoshopped out? or is it some other information? if it is later printing dates, it could be very relavent to the whole issue, if the publisher WASN'T recieving the grant funds when it was initially published, but was reprinted at a later date, after the publisher had recieved grant funds. cooter may well have been completely unaware of later reprints.

[TacticalPeek]

73. As best I can tell, it's the reverse.

I believe this is the original printing. What is obscured is where the library stamp bled through, and I tried to spare them any unnecessary public grief in a very conservative locale (although the dynamics of that would be - interesting).

The listing at Amazon is a later publishing by St. Martin's Griffin; St. Martin edition (February 4, 2002). Perhaps they thought to benefit from greater exposure through his high public office.

[hunter]

75. Dan Rather, paging Dan Rather...

.

[indianaleft]

72. This is how the NEA works, and how (finally) the wheel turns...

I can't figure out why a distinguished publisher like Graywolf (which is literary, not "last resort") would accept a book like this in the first place, but: this is what the NEA's defenders have been trying to explain for 20 years. Funds are given to support publishers, theaters, opera companies, musical ensembles, etc...then someone finds out that the supportee organization (which might be getting less than 5% of its funds from the NEA) has itself suppported some controversial writer or artist, and all hell breaks loose, and right wingers blame the NEA!

In this case, Graywolf probably got a grant from the state arts council of Minnesota, its home, and because almost half of all NEA funds are sent to state arts councils, the grantee credited the NEA, even though no NEA person likely had any role whatsoever in supporting Graywolf, let alone publishing Scooter Libby.

It's delightful to now see Rev. Wildmon et al try to explain this. If this gets any notice, at last they will have to recognize how this system has always worked, and in effect, tacitly admit their hypocrisy.

[Dora]

81. Thanks for your clarification.

I tried to do it, but you did it much better than I did.

[PATRICK]

77. It is incredible

how sloppy and openly arrogant these people are and not an easy target for Fitzgerald. He must be going very cautious not to be able to blow apart these jerks.

[gordianot]

79. Maybe they will make a movie.

Recast reset it in rural Texas and hire the Bush twins in an acting role. Proceeds could be given to Scooter's defence fund. Just think; defend a worthy cause, rehabilitate Hollywood, hire the unemployed, while promoting the arts Republican style.

[wordpix]

84. A performer friend who is multitalented and does children's programs told

me that the rich, famous and well connected typically get the grants, prizes and recognition. My friend is really good but is regularly turned down when he applies for grants to do school and community programs.

[brainshrub]

85. Great catch!

LOL!

[Spathi]

86. ######

Maybe we'll eventually get Rove :)

[BJW]

87. So--what level of direct support did Libby get here?

Did he receive any grant monies for this, from any source, or was it just the publishers?

And, if he did receive direct grant monies, do these organizations make distinctions between artists who are financially needy and people like Libby, a multi-millionaire? Grants are supposed to help out financially needy artists and organizations, yes?

[wordpix]

93. good question---maybe some enterprising reporter would research this

Hey, Keith Obermann...!

[wordpix]

95. I wonder what Rove's sex book is about:

I can see it now, O'Leilly doing it with a chimp while a fat guy has a heart attack rubbing Rush Limballs

[spindrifter]

108. Probably rutabagas.

[npincus]

88. Take THAT, Freeper-fuckheads!

[corporatemedia]

92. "So, what's the big deal about the book?" - Yogi, BooBoo, and Smokey eom

[PurpleChez]

96. What was ghosted out in this image? I'm intrigued.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that Scooter's book had a naughty Library of Congress page and needed some editing to make it family-safe. Bwah-ha.

[TacticalPeek]

109. See post #73.

:)

[PurpleChez]

117. I can't find post #73. The mystery deepens!!

Oh...I just found it. Sorry. I'm a dipwad.

"Never mind." -- Emily Litella

[TacticalPeek]

119. "Never mind" yourself.

:)

[PurpleChez]

120. Sweet!

Thanks for the cherry photo of Miss Litella! Made my afternoon!

[eleny]

100. Is Bill O'Reilly outraged? Hmmmm????

I want to hear his outrage but I think hell will freeze over before he says a peep.

[benburch]

101. BZZZT! We Disrupt This Thread For An Important Announcement!

[lies and propaganda]

102. i posted this before; just happened to be on Fitzmas

so it went unseen.

How about we here at DU purchase a copy? I saw they were going for a min. of $700, and if the amount of DUers who would want to read this all donated a quarter, we could totally own our own copy of this literary gem.

Then Skinner, or a mod, could upload it (thanks guys!ha) for all of our reading pleasure. We wouldnt have to feel bad about sharing, because we all chipped in.

Plus i just really really want to read this, but definitely not for $700.

[TacticalPeek]

112. Try your local library

We found it at our local, smallish, town library. Checked their card catalog online and were surprised to see it available. Also, check your local thrift type stores.

[PegDAC]

103. Oh, the humanities!

OMFG!! Aren't Scooter, O'Lielly, et.al., the very bunch that want to dismantle the NEA because it funds pornography?

:evilgrin: :wtf: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Spathi]

107. none of this nonsense matter

Look the issue here is the court. The news cycle seems distracted by all this Libby stuff but none of it matters. Right now Bush is realigning the court!!! Who gives a shit what some guy named scooter did who doesn't even work for the president. We must filibuster.

[peacetalksforall]

114. You're right. No matter how Libby, Cheney, and George fall - there will

still be a very exquisitely infrastructure of civic employees, judges, lawyers, ceos, bankers, think tankers and that not-so-supreme court that will haunt us for years.

We must put our foot down.

[peacetalksforall]

115. Edited to add - exquisitely ORCHESTRATED infrastructure.

[Neil Lisst]

111. The Book is banned by Bears everywhere, however.

They are offended by his sexual proclivities.

[lonestarnot]

113. Oh exposure for the world to see. heh heh heh

[izzie]

121. Now that is funny.

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