Seriously overdue notices

The website The Smoking Gun recently posted an article about the New York publishing house Penguin Group. Apparently, Penguin has filed lawsuits this week against several prominent authors who have failed to deliver books for which they received hefty contractual advances, including blogger Ana Marie Cox, Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat. There's some serious money involved—Cox alone is being dunned for her $81,250 advance plus $50,000 in interest.