by Mark Silva
The rollout of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, has inspired more than Oprah Winfrey, who will feature the former governor of Alaska on the eve of the publication of her memoirs. It also has inspired some cynics.
Going Rouge is the title of a couple of works coming out the same day.
One is a collection of essays with a title and cover that mirror and mimick the title and cover of Palin's forthcomiming memoirs with a paperback release scheduled the same day, Nov. 17, Going Rouge: An American Nightmare.
This is clearly not the authorized version of Palin's memoirs.
The real version was penned in San Diego with a collaborator, Lynn Vincent, whose most recent collaborative success has become a best-seller with movie rights.
For the past 10 years, the San Diego Union's Diane Bell notes, Vincent has been working for Christian-based World Magazine.
Going Rouge is the work of Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, two editors of the liberal weekly, The Nation. It includes essays by Nation regulars Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, and Katha Pollitt.
It's the first release from OR Books, a startup founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson that "embraces progressive change in politics, culture and the way we do business.''
It will be sold online.
By comparison with another title, however, the Nation writers' venture is likely to remain somewhat more flattering than this yet other iteration of Going Rouge:
The other is a self-published coloring book by cartoonist Julie Sigwart and political satirist Micheal Stinson: Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book. It includes a page with lipsticks and pigs and caricatures of Palin in fishing gear, with a gun, a saw, an ax and a bomb.
Palin, the 2008 Republican candidate for vice president, has developed her own following for a memoir that's getting a far more sizeable printing than these mockingbird editions -- 1.5 million for the rollout from HarperCollins, which The Oprah Winfrey Show will be featuring on the afternoon of Nov. 16.
Comments
Hilarious! Makes you wonder if a similar copycat out break will pre-empt W's "Decision Points." The brave souls attempting the feat of pointing out crucial points during the Bush Presidency will have their work cut out for them; either producing the world's shortest book, one page (he was elected), or the world's largest novel, (just about every thing he did). One, this is for sure-- I look forward to the coloring books with no lines.
Posted by: WH has reserved 2 copies of each, for Dunn and the BO library | October 27, 2009 1:05 PM
Oh, this CAN'T be good for the stress level of those who follow St. Sara as their personal Joan of Arc. I worry about them, I really do.
Posted by: Asbestos Slope | October 27, 2009 2:34 PM
As part of the promotional tour for the book, I can't wait to see Tina Fey's parody on SNL.
Posted by: gibster | October 27, 2009 3:16 PM
It seems the Left is still scare of her.
Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | October 28, 2009 2:21 PM
Like I said..."more toilet paper for the world"..What a joke and disappointment she is..2012 will never be attainable for her.....
Posted by: kaye c. | October 29, 2009 9:49 AM
An American nightmare describes her perfectly.The idea that anyone would take that lame-brain twit seriously just show how lacking our educational system is.
Posted by: Bob Evans | November 21, 2009 10:58 AM
An American nightmare describes her perfectly.The idea that anyone would take that lame-brain twit seriously just shows how lacking our educational system is.
Posted by: Bob Evans | November 21, 2009 11:00 AM