Month: May 2017

I don’t know quite how it happened, but right now it’s Russian Literature Week and if you move quickly, you can be a part of it, too. From the web site (no, really):   RUSSIAN LITERATURE WEEK 2017 presents a series of panels, screenings, and in-person conversations featuring some of Russia’s most acclaimed new authors, famed translators of Russian fiction, and several of the world’s leading Russian literature scholars and literary critics.   Russian Literature […]

Fans of Anne Rice, the mother of the modern vampire tale, were ecstatic back in November when the author announced she had regained the rights to her seminal Vampire Chronicles, which include Interview With the Vampire. “The theatrical rights to the Vampire Chronicles are once again in my hands,” Rice wrote on her Facebook page in November, “free and clear! I could not be more excited about this! — A television series of the highest […]