Tuesday, June 27, 2006

'Dummies' authors to meet

150 authors of the "_____ For Dummies" books will convene in San Francisco in November (courtesy Publishers Lunch).

This suggests some comic scenes in which everyone wants to ask questions of the "Programming your VCR for Dummies" guy, while experts in the more obscure subjects ("Living Gluten-Free for Dummies") sit around boring each other to death.

In other book news, The Guardian has a piece on erotic updates of fairytales for adult readers.

2 comments:

Myfanwy Collins said...

OH how I hoped that Living Gluten-Free For Dummies was not a real book.

Jym said...

=v= The one that gave me pause was Fertility for Dummies. Very nonDarwinian.