Short Items Rappers have apparently adopted the 1998 book THE 48 LAWS OF POWER as “the bible for behavior in the hip-hop world,” the LAT reports, “largely as a result of rap artists’ growing sense of themselves as an entrepreneurial warrior class.” “Geeky white guy” author Robert Greene is now “fashioning himself into an unlikely consigliere to hip-hop’s elite,” including collaborating on a business book with 50 Cent. LAT The Library of Congress has announced authors participating in the sixth annual National Book Festival, scheduled for the end of September. Release In an NYT op-ed piece, Katha Pollitt reflects on […]