Hemmings Signs New Book Deal
According to the always useful Publishers Marketplace, Kauai Hart Hemmings recently signed a deal with Random House for The Descendants. The book is described as the story of a descendant of a Hawaiian royal family who, upon learning that his dying wife was having an affair, teams with his two troubled young daughters to find her…
continue readingIndependence Day Revisited
I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe holiday. My 4th of July was pretty low-key. I watched Kobayashi cram down a record 53 and three-quarters hot dogs and buns in the annual eating competition on Coney Island. How do these guys not explode? And just how much do they have to “eat”? Kobayashi must…
continue readingIce Movie Continues to Make Progress
In spite of my glee the other day at the news that Lionsgate has optioned the rights to Larry Brown’s novel, The Rabbit Factory, I find it’s usually best to remain cautious about Hollywood’s interaction with the book world. So many books and stories are optioned, but never actually made into a film. And…
continue readingNew T.R. Pearson Book
Running a blog like this one, I generally know about books long before they actually hit bookstore shelves. I read about the deal being signed, then publicists inform me of release dates, I see the galleys, and so forth. It’s a perk, and a necessity, of operating a website like this. However, there are rare…
continue readingWoodrell Profiled in The Independent
This is a few days old but I don’t know how I previously missed it since Daniel Woodrell is one of my favorites. But, some lucky reporter from The Independent got to travel to the Ozarks to interview Woodrell. Man, I can still remember the exact moment that I saw Give Us a Kiss in the…
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