In his memoir, Black Gold of the Sun, the Ghanaian writer Ekow Eshun writes of his love of comic books, speculating that African children of the diaspora have a unique affinity with superheroes.
Curt Matthews, chief executive of the Independent Publishers Group, a Chicago book distributor that got in a dispute with Amazon last year over margins on e-books, speculated that Amazon could be data-mining its customers.
A new book speculates that Jimi Hendrix was murdered.
In an afterword written for this book, Wolfe speculates that New Yorker acolytes freaked out at his piece because he said how close Shawn was to his star writer, Lillian Ross.
In my book "The Rest Is Noise," I speculate that Hitler alluded to "Parsifal" in his horrific 1939 speech prophesying the extermination of the Jews.
In his book, Woodward speculated that his former source "believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make the president and his men answerable".
Despite much media backlash against Cheney's book, many have speculated that the book is Cheney's attempt at appearing more human.
In the first edition of my book, I had speculated that a toxic alkaloid in the seeds had significantly contributed to, if not caused, his death.
For years, book readers have speculated that Ned Stark is not really Jon Snow's dad.
Donald R. Katz, the founder and chief executive of Audible, which was bought by Amazon.com in 2008, said that his company employed 2,000 actors to read books last year, and he speculated that he was probably the largest single employer of actors in the New York area.
In the Internet age, as our attention is diced into ever-tinier blog posts, blurbs, bleats and tweets, some have speculated that books are obsolete.
