Smoking Gun reports that Penguin is "suing a host of well-known authors, claiming that they failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual advances. The list of authors includes Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel and former Wonkette editor Ana Marie Cox."

  • http://vincenzoravina.tumblr.com/ Vincenzo Ravina

    That… seems fair. I wonder why these people never wrote those books they were supposed to write. Or why they kept the money.

    • TooGoodToCheck

      Or, having gotten the money but not having written the book, why they didn’t just get a ghostwriter to churn out any old piece of crap to avoid the legal hassles

  • http://twitter.com/bigbadchang Chang Terhune

    How Elizabeth Wurzel got even one book published I am still perplexed by…

    • http://twitter.com/thelastunicorn6 The Last Unicorn

      I threw Prozac Nation into a bus stop trash can after I finished it, fuck that book.

  • niktemadur

    …former Wonkette editor Ana Marie Cox

    Who went into the Witness Protection Program and under a new identity, is now the Science Editor at BoingBoing.