Novels Literature

Guillermo Del Toro Booked Through 2017

movieweb.com     23 hrs ago   4 related          

Unlike many directors who haven't the slightest what their next project is, Guillermo del Toro is solidly booked through 2017. According to Variety, Universal has a three-year first-look deal with the director that was...                    

The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein freezes the blood

metro.co.uk     23 hrs ago   1 related          

by Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, £16.99) Claire Allfree - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 In his last work of non-fiction, Peter Ackroyd plunged head first into the river Thames's historical associations with horror and...                    

Anthony Capella's gourmet fiction: Coffee without the grind

economist.com     18 hrs ago          

Anthony Capella serves up a fine new helping of gourmet fiction“WHEN a woman gives a man coffee, it is a way of showing her desire.” This Abyssinian proverb forms the theme of Anthony Capella’s third novel, an erotic,...                    

Young novelist, drawn to obsessive rituals, uses writing to order her life

sacbee.com     yesterday   1 related          

The world that Crissa-Jean Chappell experiences is far from ordinary. We hear Cuban tree frogs. She hears puppies barking. We see a classroom with circular windows. She sees a ship. We smell an orchid. She smells maple...                    

After Oprah, the pressure was on for Lamb

usatoday.com     yesterday          

The wait is over: Wally Lamb had picked the title The Hour I First Believed from the start. Q: If she were to tap you a third time with her magic book-club wand…? I understand there are a lot of wonderful writers and a...                    

New in paper: Diverse fiction, non-fiction

usatoday.com     yesterday          

Junot Diaz crafts the story of an overweight nerd in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. From Junot Diaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to the story of an inventor seeking a cure for his blindness, here...                    

In All But Name

wsj.com     yesterday          

Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature By John Mullan (Princeton University Press, 374 pages, $25) Anonymity in literature is a topic with rich possibilities. John Mullan's "Anonymity" takes a narrower view...                    

Adam Resurrected

variety.com     yesterday          

A Bleiberg (U.S.) 3L Filmproduktion (Germany) presentation of an Ehud Bleiberg & Werner Wirsing production. Screenplay, Noah Stollman, based on the novel by Yoram Kaniuk. Director Paul Schrader and scenarist Noah Stollman...                    

WYATT MASON—Unconsumed Holes

harpers.org     yesterday          

“But can a novelist, or any writer for that matter, really notice too much or dwell too much on what he notices?” The question was posed a few weeks back by Sam Tanenhaus, on the New York Times Book Review’s Papercuts...                    

New blood at Eastern

easternprogress.com     yesterday          

The Eastern creative writing department has been injected with some new blood. Among the new people is Derek Nikitas, author of the acclaimed novel Pyres, which has been extremely well received with the mystery community....