Awesome new book

NOTE from AJ: I'm bumping this so anybody who missed it earlier can see it. The book has jumped from 50,000 to 8,000 on Amazon's rank, which is awesome, but I think we can do even better. Let's aim for 5,000 by tonight. Supporting progressives is worth it! Again, cost of a movie ticket to support a great blogger and activist, and get a great book too.

The incomparable Amanda Marcotte has written her first book! It's just been released, and since I know exactly how much of a damn pain in the ass it is to pull that off, I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations. More importantly, though, I want to extend . . . the Amazon link. Look, for obvious reasons I didn't make this argument when my book came out, but the importance of supporting progressive authors simply cannot be overstated. The conservative death grip on much of our political media is probably nowhere stronger than in publishing, and the fact that it's a miracle when someone as brilliant and talented as Marcotte gets a book deal is just insane.

My copy hasn't yet arrived, but there's a great rundown of the book here, and if you like good, funny writing (and who doesn't?), go buy a copy. It's eleven dollars for chrissakes. We want people like Amanda to have bigger megaphones, to be THE voice on the issues she addresses, to have op-ed spots and TV appearances and quotes in articles. Driving up an Amazon rank is a surprisingly effective way to help make that happen, and it'll cost you about as much as a movie ticket. So give it a look. You'll be very glad you did.