Scoop

Scoop ‘s hero’s a hapless shmagoo named William Boot who seems to have that name so that other people can say it angrily or mockingly, emphasizing the “t.” Boot works as a nature writer for The Daily Beast, the bitter enemy of its rival paper, The Daily Brute. Boot thinks he’s been called into his editor’s office because of his piece on the great crested greeb, but learns that he’s actually being sent to the land of Ishmaelia to serve as a correspondent on the upcoming war. —Slantmagazine.com