Literary Obama

I’m not sure which is more hilarious: the First Dog leaping across the cover of his own comic book in Puppy Power: Bo Obama, or a satirical account of a text-messaging President Obama in the forthcoming book, Obama’s Blackberry. Included in the description of Obama’s BlackBerry, written by the San Francisco-based comedy group Kasper Hauser, is this teaser:

Now, for the first time, We The People are privy to our new leader’s epistolary back-and-forths on his wily hand-held device. We’re about to discover that his emails (and the replies, from his wife and daughters, Biden, Palen, Rush, Hannity, the new first puppy, and even Bush) are so tuned in to the language of electronic correspondence they come hilariously close to the brink of legibility.

This giftable, imagined glimpse into Obama’s beloved Blackberry traverses the mundane and momentous contours of the Commander in Chief’s life, from security briefings to spam, basketball practice to domestic bliss, and the panic of oops-I-hit-reply-all, to, of course, the trauma of dealing with the First Mother In Law.

And a small excerpt:

BidenMyTime: Hey U, whatcha doin?
BARACKO: M rly busy
BidenMyTime: Right :( Can I lv at 4:45?

Enter to win a free copy of Obama’s BlackBerry at the blog, Cafe of Dreams. (And hat tip to Rich Watson for the link to Bo Obama “jumping the shark.”)

In other forthcoming book news, an article in the New York Observer concludes with a run down of top-name journalists who currently have a publication about President Obama, his influence, his administration, or his family in the works:

Among the heavyweights working on Obama books are the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, who are both writing accounts of the new administration’s first year; New Yorker editor David Remnick, who is focusing on race; and The Washington Post’s David Maraniss, who is writing a comprehensive biography. All that’s on top of a biography of Obama’s father by Boston Globe reporter Sally Jacobs that’s coming from Public Affairs, the three big-ticket campaign tick-tocks coming from Crown, HarperCollins, and Viking, and several works-in-progress on the administration’s handling of the economic crisis.