To Rachel, there’s no one in the world like her uncle Jake. Handsome and mysterious, he fills her with stories, sends postcards and gifts from exotic places. And he’s so much more fun to be with than her parents, who are always fighting. When she learns he’s gay, she keeps it under wraps. And when he gets sick, she doesn’t even tell her best friends. Until she realizes that secrecy is doing more harm than […]
A Maryland town bent on recreating itself as a wonderful place to live took a terrific step in the right direction when it conceived of a reading festival that included, as much as possBooks in Bloom Returns to ible, something for everyone. Fast forward three years and Columbia, Maryland is well on their path and the Books in Bloom Festival they conceived of then is a huge success. Books in Bloom says that they seek […]
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ali Karim, the chief British correspondent for The Rap Sheet and the assistant editor of Shots. He would like to thank Charlotte Bush, of Penguin Random House UK, for making sure he was given an early read of Cari Mora.) Despite this eagerly anticipated novel being unusually concise, as it would take no more than an afternoon curled up on a sofa to consume, it cannot properly be labeled […]
Though a phalanx of dissatisfied (and maybe overly entitled?) Game of Thrones fans have been shouting for a brand new, reimagined final season, the series ended Sunday night: not with a bang but a whimper. And maybe also sort of a bang. From Deadline Hollywood : After 73 episodes, two slain dragons, three Outstanding Drama Series Emmys, one Peabody, the demise of the Night King and most of Kings’ Landing and the destruction of more […]
Back in 2004, then newly minted mystery imprint Hard Case Crime burst onto the scene with a careful blend of sharp new voices and well-loved names. Their initial lineup included Lawrence Block, Max Phillips (also one of the publishers), Max Allan Collins and Erle Stanley Gardner. The following year, they kept pouring it on, with a list that included the first publication anywhere of Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid. Fourteen years later, Hard Case is […]
Jason Rekulak’s engaging and bestselling 2017 novel, The Impossible Fortress (Simon & Schuster), will be reimagined as a Netflix project by Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films. From Deadline Hollywood: Ori Marmur and Ivanna Martinez will oversee the project for Netflix’s original films department. Aggregate Film’s Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan and Adam Wagner, and GoldDay’s Jonathan Goldstein and John Daley will develop a film based on the book, which was published in February 2017 by Simon & […]
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