Banville Wins Booker Prize
John Banville won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. Banville was a bit of a surprise in the competition after bookies set 7-1 odds for the 59 year-old Irish author. The award carries a cash prize of 50,000 pounds and of course a huge spike in sales at the bookstore. Read…
continue readingDermaphoria Day
Copies have been leaking out for some time now, but today is the official release date of Craig Clevenger’s new novel Dermaphoria. Author of the word-of-mouth phenomenon, The Contortionist’s Handbook, Clevenger has created a masterwork with this new one. Dermaphoria is the story of Eric Ashworth as he wakes up in jail, horribly burned and…
continue readingBest 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 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…
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