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Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Stung bitterly, Orrin shot back, "Sure. you probably can't even remember getting hit. You were probably in a drunken fog." There was an awful silence. Most of them knew that Harold was a drunkard - he had volunteered the information himself in a detached, almost scientific way - but for that very reason no one before had ever dared to mention it aloud. Harold said cooly, "As a matter of fact, I was...
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Unshelved (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
This week's Unshelved is made possible by the Louis L'Amour Centennial National Library Celebration. In my household, where fully three-quarters of the adults hale from Montana, Louis L'Amour is required reading. On his hundredth birthday, Bantam books is giving away the centennial edition of his memoir Education of a Wandering Man free to any lending library in the U.S. Posted by Bill on 6/29/2008...
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Looking along my bookshelf, my eye was caught by a title, Triumph Over Fear: A Book of Help and Hope for People with Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Phobias by Jerilyn Ross — originally published by Bantam Books in 1994. When I picked it up again, I was surprised to see how long ago it was [...]
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Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
In his recent book, "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace" (Bantam Books; scheduled to be published in Hebrew translation next week by Yedioth Books), Aaron David Miller relates the following anecdote about his father, Sam Miller: "He once challenged my brothers, sister, and me to name three of our non-Jewish friends who would hide us in the event the Nazis took...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Photo: Courtesy of Bantam Books Calling the Sweet Valley High books "canon" is like being wistful for the nutritious qualities of Hostess Fruit Pies . But girls of a certain age still have the identical-twin image of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield permanently tattooed onto their brains. "Both girls had the same shoulder-length, sun-streaked blond hair, the same sparkling blue-green eyes, the same...
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skullring.org (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
Going back in time a bit here, straight to 1988, to a book that captures the essence of that time more perfectly than any this reviewer has ever seen. Skipp and Spectre’s THE SCREAM is a heavy metal horror tale, centering around a satanic rock band that wants to raise hell. The only difference between these guys and the others of their time is that they are trying to do it LITERALLY. Cut to middle...
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Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
--published 1951 --244 pages, Bantam Books --(trilogy won Hugo in 1965 for best all-time series) --5/5 stars Foundation. Oh how this novel--this series--has haunted me over the years. The Michael Whelan cover of the fourth book in this [...]
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zidouta.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Advertising inserted into a 1972 science-fiction paperback by A. E. Van Vogt. Paul Collins, Smoke This Book: “The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket Books and the New American [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
From The New York Times: The story of paperback advertising started innocently enough: with babies, in fact. In 1958, the Madison Avenue adman Roy Benjamin founded the Quality Book Group, a consortium of the paperback industry heavyweights Bantam Books, Pocket...
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
The New York Times lists its top 10 books of the year. Fiction MAN GONE DOWN By Michael Thomas. Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $14. OUT STEALING HORSES By Per Petterson. Translated by Anne Born. Graywolf Press, $22. THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27. THEN WE CAME TO THE END By Joshua Ferris. Little, Brown [...]
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WhiteCoat Rants (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
Superbugs beware! The Chicago Tribune just published an article on how garlic may be one of the new weapons in the war on MRSA. One of the active ingredients in fresh garlic, allicin, has antimicrobial properties and has been shown to be effective in killing several strains of MRSA. Processed and cooked garlic doesn't seem [...]
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Farther Off the Wall (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
Vin Scully isn't pleased about an admitted unauthorized biography done on him, as we pointed out in today's Daily News media column. UCLA basketball fans aren't happy about watching videostreaming on CSTV, as we also pointed out. And Joe Theismann...
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THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Mike Mignola and Alex Ross are the first announced guests of honor for next year’s New York Comic-Con. New York Comic Con (NYCC) has announced its first guests for the 2008 convention which will be held in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Center, April 18 – 20, 2008. Mike Mignola and Alex [...]
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ParanormalReview RSS news feed (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
UNITED STATES. Just weeks after being named America’s top ghost hunter – along with her husband Ed who died in August 2006 – Lorraine Warren is facing a major lawsuit. It concerns the reprinting of The Devil in Connecticut by Gerald Brittle, about an alleged case of “demonic possession”. Often cited as more frightening than the Amityville possession case, also investigated by the Warrens, the main...
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Oscarwatch (Free subscription) | 10/03/2007
Scorsese's Oscar does not buy him freedom Apparently, winning an Academy Award and scoring your biggest box office hit in four decades of filmmaking with the year's best picture doesn't buy you any smoother a ride in Hollywood. Right...
