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Phantom of the Opera Novel Provides Source for TV Series

June 25, 2020 News Editor 0

The original novel Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, rather than Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musical play, will provide the source material for a six-part series, says Deadline Hollywood: Gaumont, the French production company behind Netflix shows Narcos and F Is For Family, is in the early stages of adapting Gaston Leroux’s iconic novel The Phantom Of The Opera into a six-part TV miniseries. The project is being led out of Gaumont’s UK unit, […]

Biography: Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl

April 14, 2020 News Editor 0

Since very early in his own career, distinguished journalist Jonathan Karl has had unique and frequent access to current American president Donald Trump. In Front Row at the Trump Show (Dutton) Karl paints what feels like a balanced portrait of this Commander-in-Chief, yet it still leaves us fearing for the future. “This book is about what it is like to be in the front row at the Trump show,” Karl writes, “to be taunted by […]

Writer Predicts Innovation Boom Will Follow COVID-19

April 11, 2020 admin 0

Expect a major boom in innovation after the COVID-19 crisis subsides. That is the conclusion of veteran journalist Llewellyn King in a major op-ed piece, distributed to newspapers and other outlets this week by InsideSources. King argues that after wars and other great dislocating events, there has been a boom in innovation. He traces this partly to the ending of rigidities which have built up in society, limiting innovation and new entrepreneurial activity. The boom […]

Non-Fiction: The Future After COVID by Jason Schenker

April 6, 2020 admin 0

The COVID-19 pandemic is having unprecedented impacts on business, the economy, and society. Inevitably, a lot of people are asking: What comes next? Author, economist and chairman of the Futurist Institute, Jason Schenker tries to answer that question in The Future After COVID: Futurist Expectations for Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Schenker’s 22nd book. “The impact of COVID-19 is likely to cast a long shadow — in both bad and good ways […]

Non-Fiction: The Proximity Paradox: How to Create Distance from Business as Usual and Do Something Truly Innovative by Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio

March 26, 2020 admin 0

When it comes to generating innovative ideas, it’s typically believed that those who are closest to a subject or problem are the ones best qualified. In reality, intense proximity limits creativity. What’s truly needed is distance from challenges in order to see the best way forward, so Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio, authors of The Proximity Paradox: How to Create Distance from Business as Usual and Do Something Truly Innovative, newly released by ECW Press. […]

Non-Fiction: The Future of Public Transportation by Paul Comfort

March 12, 2020 admin 0

The Future of Public Transportation examines the transformations coming this decade to cities and the public transportation systems that serve them. It aims to allow readers to become more informed and ready for these changes. Author Paul Comfort calls himself, a transit evangelist. This is not only based on his years of transit experience, including his role as CEO of the Maryland MTA, but also on the numerous interviews he made with transit CEOs as […]

New Today: Fight Like A Girl by Sheena Kamal

March 10, 2020 News Editor 0

Out today in Canada and the UK is bestselling and award-winning author Sheena Kamal’s YA debut, Fight Like A Girl. Young Trisha lives in Toronto but feels the echoes of a background in Trinidad. Trisha is a Muay Thai fighter, a form of kickboxing that lets her divert the violence she senses inside of herself into a more acceptable — and perhaps controllable? — form. When her physically violent father dies when he wanders, drunk, […]

Series Featuring Clarice Starling Character Heads to CBS

March 9, 2020 News Editor 0

Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lector fans will be chuffed to learn that CBS has a big series in the works that will include some familiar characters. The series, to be called Clarice, is set in 1993: a year after the events in Silence of the Lambs. From Deadline Hollywood: Rebecca Breeds (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) has been cast as the lead, Clarice Starling, in CBS’ crime drama pilot Clarice, based on the famous Thomas […]

Coming Soon: No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America by Symone D. Sanders

March 5, 2020 News Editor 0

Looking forward to this one: No, You Shut Up (Harper) by Symone D. Sanders who notably broke a nail on Super Tuesday. (Missed it? Google. It’s a good story.) Sanders (no relation) is a senior advisor for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. And so much more. Here’s part of the bumph: In this rousing call to leadership, the self-described millennial spokesperson for the culture, CNN’s designated “woke AF” former commentator, and the youngest national press […]

2020 London Book Fair Canceled Due to COVID-19 Coronavirus Concerns

March 4, 2020 News Editor 0

The 49th London Book Fair, to have been held from March 10th to 12th at Kensington Olympia has been canceled. Whether or not the Fair would go ahead had been the subject of speculation over the last week or so. But a wave of cancelations by agencies and publishers prompted the final cancelation. London Book Fair has been cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, hours after major publishers said they would not attend. […]