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How I Wrote It, with David Ewalt 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
It's no fluke that Of Dice and Men was an August Best of the Month pick for both the Nonfiction and the Humor & Entertainment categories. The book, which came out last week, is actually several storie...
Character Comebacks: King, Fielding, Grisham, and Doyle Catch Up With Old Favorites 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
They begin as strangers on the page, slowly coming to life in our minds. We picture the way they look. We imagine their mannerisms. We form opinions about their personalities. In return, they tap int...
Character Comebacks: Stephen King Brings Back Danny Torrance 26 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
It was 1977 when Stephen King published The Shining. Since then, he has hinted a few times at writing a new story for Danny Torrance. In one interview he went so far as to wonder what kind of kids Dan...
Character Comebacks: Helen Fielding Brings Back Bridget Jones 26 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
Since the first novel, Bridget Jones's Diary, was published in 1996, our fickle protagonist's affections have swung like a pendulum between arch-rivals Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver. It's been 15 year...
Character Comebacks: John Grisham Brings Back Jake Brigance 26 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
In 1989, John Grisham was a lawyer/politician serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives, about to publish his debut novel: a legal thriller called A Time to Kill. Now, 24 years later, this b...
Character Comebacks: Roddy Doyle Brings Back Jimmy Rabbitte 26 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
Roddy Doyle wrote two more books after he published The Commitments in 1987, completing what came to be known as the "Barrytown Trilogy" (named for the fictional Ireland town in which they all took pl...
Warren Ellis and His “Dead Pig Collector” 24 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
Warren Ellis, creator of iconic comics and such noir-ish novels as Gun Machine, claims he’s never had to dispose of a human body. As he told Amazon.com, “Only animals. And, I suppose, very small child...
Carole Baron Remembers Elmore Leonard 23 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
Veteran editor and publisher Carole Baron, now at Knopf, knew Elmore Leonard for many years. She sent us this telling photo and was kind enough to share her memories of the Get Shorty author. I met E...
YA Wednesday: Cassie Claire on "City of Bones" Movie Release 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
How nice for me that one of the biggest YA series in the last few years, Mortal Instruments, has it's film debut perfectly timed for a YA Wednesday post... I'm really excited to see City of Bones aft...
Elmore Leonard Dies at 87 20 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Elmore Leonard died Tuesday in his Michigan home surrounded by his family. He was 87 years old and had suffered a stroke three weeks ago. Leonard was a prolific author, who wrote more than forty book...
