Non-Fiction: Requiem for the American Dream
by Noam Chomsky

June 30, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 1

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. The youngest child of crime novelist Robert Terrall, aka Robert Kyle [1914-2009], Ben Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about recent works examining the dark side of the CIA.) Noam Chomsky’s Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 […]

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Non-Fiction: The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage  by Anja Reich-Osang

June 28, 2017 admin 0

A small but successful town south of Berlin. The 67-year-old wife of the former mayor, herself a pillar of the town, goes missing along with her elderly cocker spaniel. A few days later, both are found in the forest, brutally killed while out on a walk. Within days, the former mayor, her husband, is arrested for the crime. By the time we leave journalist Anja Reich-Osang’s The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of A Marriage […]

Asimov’s Foundation Heads to Screen

June 27, 2017 admin 2

Isaac Asimov’s brilliant Foundation series is one of the most ambitious, far-reaching works of science fiction ever published. The story spans 30,000 years and many worlds. Wikipedia boils the concept down as tightly as can be:   The focus of the books is the trends through which a civilization might progress, specifically seeking to analyze their progress, using history as a precedent. Although many science fiction novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four or Fahrenheit 451 do […]

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New Series Based on George RR Martin Novella Heads to Syfy

June 26, 2017 admin 0

A pilot order has been given for supernatural thriller Nightflyers, to be adapted from a novella by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin. From Deadline Hollywood:   Jeff Buhler (Jacob’s Ladder) wrote the adaptation of Nightflyers, which is set in the future on the eve of Earth’s destruction. In the hope of making contact with alien life, eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar […]

What Writers Are Eating Now

June 25, 2017 admin 1

When Sherman Alexie (You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me) is working, he snacks on fruit and vegetables. Lesley Nneka Arimah (What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky) often doesn’t stop to snack while she’s writing, “because I’m worried that stopping will break the spell.” Meanwhile, Sheila Heti (All Our Happy Days Are Stupid) says she’s glad her boyfriend is a good cook. Otherwise, she says, “I would probably subsist on […]

Drawing Conclusions

June 19, 2017 admin 0

It will be interesting to see what Sony Pictures does with The Day the Crayons Quit (Philomel Books), a children’s picture book that has spent 200 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. From Deadline Hollywood: The book follows a box of crayons whose inhabitants go on strike against their young owner after growing sick of how they’re being used, as their individual colors dictate very limited day-to-day existences for each crayon. There is […]

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LLB and the Gotham Group to Partner
for YA Projects

June 15, 2017 admin 0

Little, Brown Books For Young Readers will partner with The Gotham Group in developing original projects for film and television. From Deadline Hollywood: Together Little, Brown and The Gotham Group will work together to conceive, develop, publish, and produce content across a wide array of traditional and evolving entertainment media. “Years ago we recognized that client Tony DiTerlizzi’s The Spiderwick Chronicles concept was inherently cinematic as well as having the potential for an extraordinary book […]

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Children’s Books: Let’s Eat: Sustainable Food for a Hungry Planet  by Kimberley Veness

June 15, 2017 admin 0

Everything you eat has a story. That’s the subtext of Let’s Eat: Sustainable Food for A Hungry Planet (Orca Books) by Kimberley Veness. As Veness writes in her introduction: Do you ever wonder what your groceries would tell you if they could talk? When I realized that the bananas, avocados and mandarin oranges I loved had traveled across more countries than I ever had, I decided to pay closer attention to where my food came […]

Real News Through History

June 9, 2017 admin 0

There are many ways to find that special book to add to your collection and, of course, every season brings special book after book. All of that said, there are very few books and related items more special than those being offered at auction by Christie’s Auction House in New York next week. From the Web site: On 15 June, the Books & Manuscripts Department at Christie’s New York will offer three finely curated sales: […]

Time to Get a Bigger Summer Book Bag

June 7, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 0

Crime fiction lovers looking to keep their to-be-read piles of books at a manageable height this summer will receive no help whatsoever from our sister site, The Rap Sheet. Earlier today, that blog put up a post highlighting more than 370 high-quality crime, mystery, and thriller works due for release between now and the end of August, on both sides of the Atlantic. Among those are “new creations by Don Winslow (The Force), Joseph Kanon […]