I was surprised to learn that Caleb Carr?s novel “The Alienist” will soon be a TNT miniseries?not because it lacked fans (it reached the top 10 of The New York Times?
The New York Times goes to 11: It’s 11 new books they recommend
This week?s ?11 New Books We Recommend this Week? from The New York Times includes the latest in the Jack Reacher series;
#TBT It’s Harold Robbins’ The Lonely Lady
In the spirit of #tbt is Harold Robbins? 1976 novel, ?The Lonely Lady.? I’d thought a lot of Robbins’s work was a slight step above dime-store schlock,
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists … and a whole bunch of other phonies
When you create a work of fiction, the world is whatever you want it to be. But “Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes,
The Brothers: A tragedy decades in the making
Through a recent conversation about Russian politics, I learned about Masha Gessen?s 2015 book ?The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,?
NaNoWriMo: The endurance test that may lead to a bestseller
November is National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo, when Great American Novelists scramble to write 50,000-word manuscripts in 30 days.
Love is a baseball field: “Shoeless Joe”
?If you build it, he will come.?
Besides ?Shoeless Joe,? there are few sports novels (actually,
Pregnant With Satan?s Spawn Or Just Hormonal? “Rosemary?s Baby”
A young woman finds herself trapped in a web of deceit, betrayal, and Satanism in Ira Levin?s 1966 classic, ?Rosemary?s Baby.?
Slushpile Gets SPOOKY with Ghost Story
Four elderly gentlemen gather once a week to tell ghost stories by the fire in Peter Straub?s aptly-titled ?Ghost Story,?
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