Books we don't need to read

For those of us whose pile of "must reads" is increasing at an alarm rate, it may be a relief to hear that there's an entire publishing imprint whose spines need never be cracked. Simon and Schuster has announced a new conservative imprint (as yet unnamed) edited by Mary Matalin:

"It's the absolute nexus of what I love to do," Matalin told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I think we're on the threshold of a whole new way of looking at politics and policy and there's something vital about getting those ideas down in book form."

Once again, let me say that a "conservative" imprint dedicated to "a whole new way of looking at politics" is, well, something of a misnomer.