Wishing You the Very Best of the Season!
Everyone at January Magazine would like to wish you and yours the very best of this holiday season. Here’s wishing you a wonderful holiday. May your heart be strong and may all your dreams come true.
Month: December 2015
Cookbooks: DIY Vegan by Nicole Axworthy and Lisa Pitman
Tell people in the know that you’re thinking of going vegan and you’ll mostly get one of two responses. Sometimes both at the same time. One: It’s too expensive. Two: It’s too hard. And, for the most part, they’re right (although the “too” is relative and even subjective.) Almost every vegan recipe ever drafted calls for a cup of this difficult-to-get ingredient and a half cup of that expensive-type-of-something. And clearly, if you could find […]
This Just In… Happy Habits: Energize Your Career and Life in 4 Minutes a Day by Vicki Morris
In the author’s own words: Recently I published my first full-length book, Happy Habits: Energize Your Career and Life in 4 Minutes a Day. For me, this has been a rewarding and fulfilling experience because I have been trying to find a way to be happier in my career and life for years. And now that I have found a new approach that combines proven energy-raising happiness techniques with a scientific habit-creation methodology I am […]
Art & Culture: Holiday Bonding
It’s inevitable, really. Every 007 movie brings forth new books about the Bond phenomenon. Some are updated versions of older books, some are new. But they appear as part of the vast Bond marketing machine that hasn’t stopped since the early 1960s. This fall’s release of Spectre, the 24th film in the series, saw its share. Here’s a look at three. The best by far is The James Bond Archives (Taschen). Created with the full cooperation […]
Fantastic Beasts Teaser Goes Live
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Ezra Miller (Trainwreck), Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown) and Colin Farrell (True Detective) all star in the big-screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, currently in production for Warner Bros. The trailer, below, offers a sneak peak and became available today.
Non-Fiction: Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent
by Brian Kellow
We all know the names of superstars. We all know the names of supermodels. But do we, any of us, know the names of any superagents, much less the first one? Maybe we know Michael Ovitz because he made so much news as his ship sank. Anyone else? If you were into the making of movies in the 1970s, you know who Sue Mengers was. In her own way, she was as big a star as the […]
This Just In… The Munich Girl:
A Novel of the Legacies That Outlast War
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief […]
Mars Trilogy Heads to TV
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy is slated for television production at Spike who has given an order for 10-episodes. According to Variety, “The hourlong drama marks the cabler’s first original scripted series in nine years.” From Variety: Based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy of novels — “Red Mars,” “Green Mars” and “Blue Mars” — which chronicle mankind’s colonization and transformation of the red planet, the series will follow the first settlers charged with terraforming […]
Obama, Rushdie and the Path to Pure Reading
Sometimes a book is just a book. That’s the message Salman Rushdie does not seem to be super-clear on. But maybe an author who came of age as the enfant terrible of the literary world has a hard time just seeing things that way. Who can blame him? Rushdie’s first novel, Midnight’s Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. That’s a hard act to follow, but he did it with several books, including 1988’s The […]