George W. Bush's "people" have started scheduling promotional hoopla for his memoir, Decision Points, coming in November. Fortunately for Republicans, his first one-on-one interview — a primetime special with Matt Lauer! — will take place days after the midterm elections.

HarperCollins has released the cover for Sarah Palin's second book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, set for release in November. We see "Flag" represented, but not so much "Family" or "Faith." What a con artist. [via]

George W. Bush is slightly more popular nowadays compared to a couple years ago. (That doesn't mean he'll be campaigning this fall.) But he will be "flooding the airwaves" around election time to promote his memoir, which has Republicans fretting.

Looking for something new to read? Why not one of the 14 13 books on the "longlist" for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction? Some of them probably even have sex scenes!

Adam Carolla stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his new book and the former "Man Show" hosts ran through some possibilities for title/cover combo. Upon the revealing of the actual book, Kimmel was not that impressed.

In his new book The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane, former magazine editor Randall Lane describes how Travolta's assistants freely admitted their employer's hair was fake when they demanded Lane's magazine redo a cover shoot.

As oil continues to gush seep from a hole deep under water, publishers are scrambling to get books written about the catastrophe. Six or more are currently in the works. One is coming out in September. It'll be a cliffhanger!

The Daily Beast reveals the cover for Meghan McCain's long-awaited tome, Dirty Sexy Politics, about her experiences on the 2008 campaign trail with her father, John McCain, who got second place. Dirty sexy elephants and John McCain! We'll take 50.

British author Alan Shadrake was released on bail in Singapore today and his passport is being held over government worries about his new book, Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, which details the country's death penalty.

Amazon.com reports that, for the past three months, sales of e-books for their Kindle device have outpaced sales of hardcover books. They sold 143 Kindle downloads for every 100 hardcover. Yeah, but can you use a Kindle as a doorstop?

Gary Shteyngart: "American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it."

Though we have recently been ensconced in a blissful, months-long "No Tucker Max News to Report" period, it appears that our peace shall soon be shattered: our "favorite" "person" (Tucker Max) has a new book coming out. With words!

Remember Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree? Well, thanks to Second City, the children's classic has been reimagined: what would it be like if the eleemosynary, deciduous title character had a fabulously sassy BFF? Watch the video inside and find out.

Katherine Rosman is a culture reporter at the Wall Street Journal and the author of If You Knew Suzy, a memoir about the death of her mother. Today she responds to the Times book review that will run this Sunday.

Behold, the blurb that launched a thousand mocking blog posts: "Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a book and when you close it nothing can ever be the same..." Book blurbs: Old media's version of linkbaiting.

So the ex-cook-who-tells-stories Anthony Bourdain is running a contest on his book's website, inviting people to submit a 500-word essay answering the question "Why cook well?" (or alternatively "What does it mean to cook food well?" It's a little confusing, they mean every so slightly different things.)

Libraries are moving into shopping malls in an effort to get Americans to read books.

Champions of the printed page, rejoice! A new study found that reading speed declines anywhere from 6.2-10.7% when using a Kindle or iPad instead of an old-fashioned book. This is probably because people keep asking to touch your iPad. [Mashable]

Despite a wee incarceration hiccup, vandalartist Poster Boy's book will reportedly be out in "July/August."

In your paradigm-shifting Tuesday media column: Conde Nast dumbs down, Lara Logan dumbs up, Dave Weigel lands a part-time job, London reporters get paid by the cops, and Glenn Beck has sold quite a few books.