by | Sep 28, 2010 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness Shelf Starter: A Renegade History of the United States A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell (Free Press, $27, 9781416571063/141657106X, September 28, 2010) This is a new story. When American history was first written, it...
by | Sep 27, 2010 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Projects
from Collider.com Chap Taylor to Adapt GIDEON’S SWORD for Michael Bay by Ramses Flores Earlier this year, we reported on the news that Paramount has optioned the upcoming Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novel Gideon’s Sword for Michael Bay to produce through his Bay...
by | Sep 24, 2010 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from the NY Daily NewsLehman High School teacher makes winning ‘Poetry’ out of life and deathBY PATRICE O’SHAUGHNESSY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERChu for NewsFilmmaker James McSherry, who teaches film at Lehman High School, won several awards for his new...
by | Sep 18, 2010 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
Spelling is for the bees… I thought this was interesting because it had two things we’ve covered in class: spelling and James Frey, author of A Little Million Pieces. Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 Diane von Furstenberg Studio 440 W 14th Street, NYC 7:00pm...
by | Sep 17, 2010 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Treasuring Hubert Selby Jr The author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream was a compassionate writer who truly understood addiction ‘His experience as an addict fuelled his creativity’ … Hubert Selby Jr in 1990....
by | Sep 14, 2010 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from Slate.com Roger Clemens, James Frey, and the Thrill of Watching the Overly Ambitious Fall By Laura Kipnis Which is worse: lying to Congress or lying to Oprah? When the news broke that former MLB star Roger Clemens was being indicted for perjury about his alleged...
