Already a publishing sensation in Europe, Joel Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Penguin) is one of those books everyone has been talking about. It’s a novel held aloft by a lot of hype, and much of it is even deserved. It reads fast. It’s got an intricate plot, and it’s been compared to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — though in truth it has none of that book’s urgency or bowstring […]
by Tony Buchsbaum Every year at this time, the book universe gathers to celebrate itself (and why shouldn’t it?) at Book Expo America. This is the spot to be if you’re a book lover. But good luck getting in. It’s not open to the public — except for a little bit. But more on that later. This year, BEA was held at the massive Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC. In years past, Javits was […]
Some novels are novels. That is, they’re just novels. You read them, they infect you or may even insinuate themselves into you, and it’s fun to spend a few hours or days losing yourself inside them. Other books, though, they haunt you. You know as you read them that there’s something a bit different. A way with words, sometimes. A pattern of telling detail. The pictures they paint in your mind. Marisha Pessl’s new novel, […]
I’ve always believed the experience of moviegoing starts with the poster. A movie’s one-sheet — the poster that hangs in the lobby — features the film’s key art, sometimes a photo collage, sometimes a painting that represents the actors or the action. Whatever the image, the idea is the intrigue. After all, the one-sheet is really just an ad designed to inspire ticket sales. For me, this experience was never more exciting than when the […]
A film based on Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is currently in development. A film is expected to reach screens by 2015. According to The Hollywood Reporter, FilmDistrict will distribute while Hyde Park International will handle foreign rights and a team including 1492 Pictures’ Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan will produce. From The Hollywood Reporter: Cyrus Nowrasteh will direct from a script that he […]
Okay, so who didn’t love The Mary Tyler Moore Show? Just as I thought: no one. The iconic 1970s TV program was must-see TV back in the day, and for good reason. It starred Mary Tyler Moore in a role that would redefine her (after her first defining role, that of Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show). The featured the likes of Ed Asner and Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, and it stood […]
Some years ago, a colleague turned me onto a blog he thought I’d like: indexed. And he was right, I did like it. In fact, I loved it. (Thanks, Casey!) At indexed, a Seattle writer named Jessica Hagy diagrams life. She crosses one idea with another mathematically, and the result is a new lens — a new and often invigorating way to look at the world. I wondered how all this came about, and in […]
This is the Best Fiction segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2012 feature. Also available are our picks for best non-fiction, best SF/F, best books for children and young adults, best crime, mystery and thriller fiction of 2012, in two parts: one and two. As well, here are the best cookbooks of 2012. 12.21 by Dustin Thomason (Dial) 12.21 is by one of the authors of The Rule of Four, Dustin Thomason. When I picked it up, I expected it to be good — […]
This is the Best Non-Fiction segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2012 feature. Also available are our picks for best SF/F, best books for children and young adults, best crime, mystery and thriller fiction of 2012, in two parts: one and two. As well, here are the best cookbooks of 2012. Still to come: our contributors’ selections of the Best Fiction of 2012. Both Flesh and Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown) With the verve and bite of 2007’s seminal Consider the Lobster, […]
The Art Forger (Algonquin Books) is one hell of a novel. This thriller by B.A. Shapiro is set in the world of fine art — the finest, actually. It’s a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of museums and throughout the art business. And yes, it is a certainly a business, where prowess isn’t just about the art itself, but in owning it. It appears that what we know about art isn’t always factual; art, like […]
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