Best of the South to Appear at Joseph Beth
In the latest publication of Best of the South, Anne Tyler selected the twenty best stories from the second decade of the annual anthology, New Stories from the South. This evening, Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY hosts a signing for the book with four contributors including a couple of my personal favorites. Jill McCorkle and…
continue readingTommy Vercetti the Cherub?
Publishers Lunch reported this past week that Grand Theft Auto designer Alan Campbell sold a book called Scar Night to Spectra. The project tells the story of two angels who seek powerful magic in an uncharted abyss and find out things are vastly different from the god they’ve been taught to expect. The three book…
continue readingReview: The Game
I reviewed Neil Strauss’ bestseller The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists for PopMatters. This book is a real blast. I’ve gotten nine people, both men and women, to buy it and they all love it. You can read this text as a how-to book, a memoir, a cautionary tale, or an entertaining…
continue readingHopkins to Play Hemingway
There are reports that Anthony Hopkins has signed on to play Ernest Hemingway in a film entitled Papa. Directed by Roger Donaldson, the film is said to be based on the author’s encounter with Denne Bart Petitclerc, America’s youngest war correspondenct in the Korean War, who was inspired by Hemingway’s work on the Spanish Civil…
continue reading300 Million Served and Growing
J.K Rowling passed another mind-boggling milestone as it was announced that sales of her Harry Potter novels surpassed the 300 million mark worldwide. According to a BBC report, the series has been translated into 63 languages and that more than a third of the sales were based here in the US.
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