Batman Influenced by Fight Club?
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post if you plan on seeing Batman Begins and you don’t want to know about the ending. I was recently re-reading a section of Fight Club and I was struck by the similarities to the new Batman film. For those of you who aren’t concerned about spoilers, read more…
continue readingIrvine Welsh to Write… a Romanace?
BookSlut picked up a report from The Scotsman that said Irvine Welsh’s new novel follows the adventures of Daniel Skinner who not only discovers that his father is a gay chef working in San Francisco but he also meets an American girl and ends up falling in love. The report stated “the writer, whose books…
continue readingPhotos of Hemingway Look-Alike
CNN has photos of Bob Doughty, a Florida mailman, who won the recent Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition in Key West. Also at the event, organizers welcomed Richard Hemingway, 44, of Davison, Michigan, who is the fourth and youngest child of Ernest Hemingway. “‘I was born five days before Ernest died,’ said Richard Hemingway, who recently…
continue readingCrime Author Bunker Dies
Also via MediaBistro, there is a BBC report that “Crime novelist Edward Bunker, who taught himself to write in prison and appeared in hit movie Reservoir Dogs, has died in California aged 71.” Bunker spent a total of 18 years in prison and ultimately published novels. He was Mr. Blue in Tarantino’s film. Read the…
continue readingTeen Phenoms Proceed with Caution
MediaBistro noted an interesting article The Christian Science Monitor about teen literary sensations and how hard it is for them to follow up with their second book. It’s an interesting article and you can read it here. I was going to make some snarky comment about whatever happened to that kid who wrote Twelve but…
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