Former War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's years-in-the-making memoir, Known and Unknown, will be available at book merchants in January. Click to see the book's sexy mountain-man cover, as well as Rumsfeld's side-plan to silence the hippies by releasing "Iraq documents."

Model-wrangling billionaire Ron Burkle scored a victory this morning in his battle to grab control of Barnes & Noble, when an advisory service recommended that shareholders vote for Burkle's slate of directors. What's B&N chairman Leonard Riggio (pictured) doing wrong?

A trick for aspiring writers: want to get an approving Sarah Palin blurb on your book's cover, a surefire way to move copies? Then title your book The Persecution of Sarah Palin, as the Weekly Standard's Palin-worshiping Matt Continetti has.

Portland, Oregon is home to Powell's, one of the country's best book stores. Portlanders love to read, and this bus driver is no exception. But, dude, how about you don't read while you're driving a bus down the highway?

Though he famously refused to join the Oprah Book Club for The Corrections, it seems Franzen's letting his newest tome, Freedom, get pimped by the Empress of Everything. Wonder what changed! Maybe he just wants to piss off Jodi Picoult.

The Pale King, the unfinished novel by the late David Foster Wallace, will be released April 15.

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters will describe the lives of 13 "groundbreaking Americans," including famed vagina painter Georgia O'Keeffe, George Washington, and Jackie Robinson. Obama wrote it in 2008; proceeds will fund fallen veterans' children's educations. [ABCNews]

The Pentagon wants to buy every single copy of the first print run of Operation Dark Heart, an expose of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan by an Army intelligence officer. Now why would they want to go and do that?

Fall is the best season for reading—it's either the weather or a Pavlovian response conditioned by years of schooling. But: What are you going to read? Here's a preview of some of this fall's most interesting titles.

Mediaite's chief bachelor Dan Abrams is writing a book about how women are superior to men. We know that trick, Dan.

The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good book, no?

England's former boozehound-in-chief, Tony Blair, apparently plagiarized a fictional scene from The Queen—the Oscar-winning 2006 movie starring Helen Mirren, which Blair said he never watched—and tried to pass it off as reality in his memoir.

The Wall Street Journal is really taking this "anything the New York Times does we can do better" fantasy very seriously! The latest shot across the NYT's bow: a WSJ book review section. Is the world ready for that?

"Girls Gone Wild" boss and Douche of the Decade Joe Francis is suing to stop the sale of former employee Ryan Simkin's tell-all book. But Simkin gave us an excerpt (below)—involving Paris Hilton smuggling coke and ecstasy, sexxxily.

Tony Blair's book tour is fizzling out after being attacked with eggs and flip flops in Ireland last weekend. His party at the Tate Modern museum has been cancelled over the "inevitable hassle" that comes with being a lying politician.

Girls Gone Wild impresario Joe Francis is going to court over his former employee's new tell-all. But the book's publisher just came back with a motion calling Francis the "Douche of the Decade." (Sound familiar?) We've got the whole thing.

Do you want to be able to discuss the endings of 50 classic novels, but can't spend the time it takes to read all of them? If so, then it's your lucky day! 50 endings. Four minutes. Be spoiled, inside.

Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design, is a nuanced analysis of the intertwining of metaphysics and physics through the ages. But all anyone wants to talk about is that the book says God wasn't needed to create the Universe.

Ah, another adventure into Race In America. And into Ohio. According to an Akron Beacon Journal columnist, many of the Wal-Mart superstores in the area have a specific section to which all books by and about black people are relegated.

Three Republican congressmen who appear in the news occasionally — Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy — are releasing a book called Young Guns, referring to themselves. They must be important! So who are these sexy, cavalier, conservative idea-machines?