SF Store Gives Palin Profits to Help Save Alaska Wolves

304 pages of what, exactly?

(NEWSER) - It might be something like War & Peace or The Call of the Wild, except with more dancing and belated abstinence, but a new literary Wasillan has gone rogue. Amazon has a pre-order page for a 304-page Bristol Palin memoir, set to be released in September by HarperCollins. Gawker 's Jim Newell takes a stab at the plot: "Part One: I was born. Part Two: I got pregnant. Part Three: I went dancing on teevee. Part Four: ??" Click for more on the book ... like its price tag . More»

Critics kicked out of hometown 'Going Rogue ' event

(NEWSER) - Dying to attend one of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue book signings? Better make sure you’re not on the banned list first. It includes four names so far, one of whom hasn’t been identified. The first three:

• Jesse Gryphen: An Alaska kindergarten teacher who posted Palin divorce rumors on his blog, refusing to take them down even after Palin’s lawyer threatened to serve him with libel papers in front of his class. He tells the story of being kicked out of the book signing on his blog .

Would-be veep cracks on herself at journalists' dinner

(AP) - Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to the Gridiron Club last night, drawing laughter when she announced she "came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian Embassy." Other knee-slappers:

• The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate joked that she had originally thought of titling her book How to Look Like a Million Bucks For Only $150,000.

'Going Rogue' phenomenon may foreshadow something bigger

(NEWSER) - Just 5 days into her book tour, first-time author Sarah Palin is attracting crowds so huge and adoring that they're feeding speculation about her political future. The philosophy that moved one fan to call her "the female Ronald Reagan" is nothing new, experts tell Erika Bolstad of the Anchorage Daily News , "but Palin seems to have seized on something timely by putting her brand on common-sense conservatism." More»

Palin memoir doesn't have one, so...

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, doesn't have an index. So Slate has generously provided one. Some key references:

• Alaska: "robin's egg sky of," page 2.
• Books: cookbooks and the Bible, page 15; Animal Farm, page 27
• Cap and trade: an "environmentalist Ponzi scheme," page 391