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…
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…
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…
Those of you in the north-central Mississippi area might want to skip lunch today and build up a hefty appetite. The gang at Square Books is cooking up burgers today in conjunction with John T. Edge’s book signing for Hamburger & Fries: An American Story. Edge, a food expert who has appeared on The Food…