Does creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is it salty or sweet? January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” is not meant to be a judgment. Rather it’s a personal peek at what some of our most beloved authors nibble on while pushing forward on their latest work. W. Bruce Cameron. Cameron is the author of 14 books, but he is best known for A Dog’s Purpose, (Forge), which was on the New York Times […]
The New York Times bestseller The Lying Game will be adapted for television. From Deadline Hollywood: Ruth Ware’s New York Times-bestseller The Lying Game is being turned into a television series after Entertainment One (eOne) partnered with The Gotham Group. The psychological mystery is the latest Ware-penned project to be adapted after New Line picked up Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood with Reese Witherspoon attached and CBS Films set up The Woman in Cabin […]
The largest Spanish language book fair in the world runs through December 3 in Guadalajara. From Mexico News Daily: The 31st edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL, will welcome more than 700 guest writers from 40 countries during the next week. Diversity will be showcased throughout the event. The Hall of Poetry, for example, will open with Romanian poet Mircea Cărtărescu, one of 18 who will appear at […]
Last week January Magazine editor Linda L. Richards took a long look at Dietrich Kalteis’ latest book, Zero Avenue (ECW) for The Rap Sheet. From the review: I once heard his fellow Canadian author Owen Laukannen describe Dietrich Kalteis’ writing as being like “jazz on the page.” If you want to boil Kalteis’ work down very tightly, for me descriptions just don’t get any better than that. Kalteis’ voice is taut, tight, and if it […]
JOHN HOUDE, B.S., D.A.B.C., is a board-certified, twenty-five year veteran criminalist and the author of Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists. His articles have appeared in such publications as The CACNews and the Journal of Forensic Sciences. John has spent much of his career educating juries, investigators and attorneys in various topics of forensic science. His specialty areas include the analysis of narcotics, trace and fire debris evidence. He lives in Washington state. “When I […]
Screen rights for comic book artist J. Scott Campbell and writer Andy Hartnell’s Danger Girl have been acquired by Constantin Film who will team with Jeremy Bolt’s Bolt Pictures and Adrian Askarieh’s Prime Universe Films for the production of a movie and a television series. From Deadline Hollywood: Launched in 1996 by comic book artist J. Scott Campbell and writer Andy Hartnell, Danger Girl began under the Wildstorm banner and moved to DC Comics. It […]
With a myriad of motives, the question is who? Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living. So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed “the Gift” of mediumship and has received a threatening letter, he embarks on the inquiry with no small degree of […]
Having trouble getting your Lord of the Rings fix? Sit tight and hang on: it’s heading to a small screen near you. From Deadline Hollywood: Amazon has closed a deal to acquire the global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a multi-season commitment. The upcoming Amazon Prime Original will be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins […]
(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. Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough.) Out of the many ridiculous claims Donald Trump made on the campaign trail in 2016, perhaps his most absurd assertion was that the U.S. military […]
A remake of the 1974 film classic based on Agatha Christie’s best-known book opens Friday in theaters everywhere. It’s a sumptuous remake with an all-star cast, directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The reviews are coming in and, so far, they’re mostly all good, if light. Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express sounds like a lighter, brighter journey than the earlier version. In addition to Branagh, the film stars […]
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