Mike Allen

This year’s Shirley Jackson Awards nominations have produced a particularly distinguished slate in almost every category. In fact, Laird Barron, himself one of the aces in the current pack of horror and dark fiction writers, does a particularly fine thumbnail sketch of the strength of the contemporary genre in “A Stitch in Darkness,” his introduction to this particular nominee […]

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Below is the full introduction to the first eBook in the POLITICO Playbook 2012 series. The eBook, written by POLITICO’s Mike Allen and author Evan Thomas, is titled ‘The Right Fights Back’ and goes on sale Wednesday.

POLITICO has taken its second step into the book business today with the launch of  an online bookstore, in partnership with Random House, of political books curated by POLITICO’s editors. A quick gander through its debut arrangement shows books ranging from Herman Cain’s campaign autobiography to Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia.

Starting this fall, political news site Politico will work with Random House to publish a series of four e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign.