Ryan Adams, IMO the greatest songwriter of ALL FUCKING TIME, is gonna be putting out a book of poetry next year that I probably won’t buy because most poetry sucks, but whatever:

EMO rocker Ryan Adams has more to say than can be conveyed in one of his crooning songs or in one of his lengthy missives to Gawker.com. Page Six hears Adams has signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books to publish his still-untitled collection of prose. “They just signed the contract,” said our source, “and they plan to release it in 2009.” A rep for Adams confirmed the deal, but wouldn’t comment on a working title or when it would hit the shelves.

In b4 summer of 69

This is kind of an interesting read if you’re bored and curious about what it’s like to live in a Canadian crack house. Here’s a passage to get you hooked…

After multiple failed attempts at holding down a job, my brother took it upon himself to start selling crack to make money off of the situation. It’s difficult watching your mother slowly kill herself, but it’s even more difficult to watch your brother sell her death. Part of me hates him for it, but at least he’s using the money to pay for things like bills and school.

The things that go on here range from terrifying to hilarious. There are also strange little perks to living in a house like this, which most people are unaware of. So ask away. I’m not shy about the subject and I know it’s something most people are curious about.

The girl happily discusses why she doesn’t live with her clean dad, disgusting tales of maggoty ham, the difference between freebased cocaine and crack, and why the cops never do anything about her sitch. She writes pretty well, maybe we should invite her to blog here for us. She’ll probably have a book out and be on Oprah someday.

The Chris Farley Show is the official biography of one of the most iconic comedian and actor in history. It was written by Chris’s older brother Tom Farley Jr. who manages the Chris Farley foundation. It touches on every part of his life, even his struggle with drugs and his horrific death that affected millions.

Farley was known as the overweight, sweaty motivational speaker and king of comedy. Some of his memorable skits include being the irresistible Chippendales stripper on Saturday Night Live and playing the underdog hero, Tommy Callahan, in the film Tommy Boy. Farley’s life goal was to bring laughter into everyones life and he excelled at his passion.

The book remembers Chris Farley through friends and relatives. It shows a different, more sensitive side of the funny man as well as his love for comedy. The book features over 100 new interviews with other people in the business like David Spade, Lorne Michaels, Chris Rock, Alec Baldwin, Janeane Garofalo and more.

Farley lived to make people laugh and his sudden death was a tragedy around the world. It is a tell-all story that includes a portrait of his family trapped by his drug addiction and the difficulty his father went through to bury his son. He was eventually torn apart by his inner most thoughts but he needs to be remembered as an amazing person and extremely talented comedian. There will never be another like him and he will never be forgotten.

It is on the bestseller list so go pick up a copy! Man, I loved that guy .. RIP

Common isn’t just a rapper and an actor anymore. He can now add children’s author to the list. He turned his difficult breakup with Erykah Badu into a love lesson in his children’s book titled, “I Like You But I Love Me.” Badu left Common and eventually told him it was because she liked another guy. He was heartbroken and turned it into a life lesson for youngsters.

His lesson: no matter how much you love somebody, you have to love yourself first. If you love yourself, you’ll have boundaries and you won’t give up certain things about yourself because it shows a lack of love for yourself.

Common’s getting pretty sappy if you ask me. Plenty of Common’s fans blame Erykah Badu for influencing his work too much and changing his attitude. Many think Badu is at fault for his experimental album Electric Circus in 2002 which wasn’t well received.

[The following was written by Synthesis Weekly columnist Emilie Clark. She can be reached at emilie@synthesis.net.]

Little Things: A Memoir in Slices
By Jeffrey Brown
Touchstone

So I’ll just come right out and say it: This is not a great book. People who are coming to Jeffrey Brown’s work for the first time should avoid this book entirely (try Clumsy and I Am Going to Be Small instead). But any book by Brown is better than a book by many other people, so let’s not disregard it entirely.
Brown started his career in comics tentatively, forced to publish his first books on his own. But now he’s become a household name — at least if you live in the kind of house where you discuss indie comics. He is famous for his realistic, heartbreaking dissections of the intimacies and distances in relationships. Little Things is his longest book to date, and, rather than being one autobiographical narrative he presents the events of two years of his life in smaller, unstructured narratives. As you might imagine the stories focus on the little, and often more mundane moments in life. Brown’s large-headed, stubble-heavy caricature of himself spends a lot of time having boring conversations with his friends, gets a cat, and goes on a lot of trips to visit friends. Even the more exciting parts of the narrative — including two hospitalizations and a car accident — are reduced to the smaller, quieter moments.

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Victoria Gotti, daughter of the late Gambino crime family boss “Dapper Don” John Gotti and reality television star of “Growing Up Gotti” has been sued by HarperCollins Publishers. The company gave Gotti a $70,000 advance for her memoir that was never written and the money was not returned. Gotti signed a contract with HarperCollins in 2005 to publish two books, one of which was her memoir.

Court papers were filed Thursday at New York State Court for the book that is long overdue. Gotti told HarperCollins Publishers LLC that she was terminating their contract last September and that she will return the money when her literary agent, Frank Weiman, signs her another deal. Gotti made the book deal with former publishing boss Judith Regan. Gotti did not hold up her end because Regan and editors she had formed the contract with left HarperCollins.