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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Following yesterday's posts about authors confronting critics on the Internet, one Salon.com writer Mary Elizabeth Williams published a fascinating history of the critic-bashing genre. The story reminded us of other notable literary feuds: Dave Eggers ' email exchange with a NY Times reporter, Caleb Carr 's angry words about a Salon review, and Stanley Crouch 's confrontation with a notable critic....
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Chris Well: Learning Curve (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Tomorrow night (Wed, Jun 3, 6:30 PM) actress and mystery writer Lyndsay Faye will be at Nashville's Mysteries & More Bookstore to discuss and autograph her debut novel, Dust and Shadow , which pits Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper in 19th Century London. The book is getting rave reviews from likes of Caleb Carr , and even got an endorsement from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "Lyndsay...
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Between the Covers (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
The TBR Challenge is progressing nicely and the 888 Challenge is in the hands of fate and the council library, so I’m signing up for a third! I’ve had my eye on this one since before the Bookfest, but didn’t have a sufficient number of suitably enormous books on hand. Which isn’t the case anymore. (Buy doorstopper-size books just for a challenge? Who, me?) Post-Bookfest...
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Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
As far as great British genre fiction goes, I've been a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for longer than I have of P. G. Wodehouse...but only a little bit longer. I remember taking Sherlock Holmes mysteries out of the Liverpool Public Library as a small(er) stuffed bull and racing home to read them cover to cover, obsessed with the Adventure of the Red-Headed League and the Dancing Men and just where...
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Between the Covers (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
It's an old question, but a good one . . . What were your favorite books this year? List as many as you like … fiction, non-fiction, mystery, romance, science-fiction, business, travel, cookbooks … whatever the category. But, really, we’re all dying to know. What books were the highlight of your reading year in 2007? The highlight would have to be finishing the Harry Potter series...
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TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/30/2007
Filed under: OpEd , Early Looks The Company is a six-hour movie that will air over three nights, beginning this Sunday at 8 pm on TNT. It stars Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, and Michael Keaton as players in the early days of the CIA. It is based on the highly-acclaimed novel by Robert LIttell. The story focuses on three Yale friends who join the spy business, two of them go to the CIA and one (the...
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Enough to Read (Free subscription) | 06/21/2007
First sentence: "There's likely some polished way of starting a story like this, a clever bit of gaming that'd sucker people in surer than the best banco feeler in town. " Description: "In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given...
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PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 04/23/2007
Turn-of-the-century New York City midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy are thrust into a twisted case of murder-when a seductress falls victim to her own charades. "Victoria Thompson shines...Anne Perry and Caleb Carr fans rejoice!" (Tamar Myers)
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PaperBackSwap.com (Free subscription) | 04/17/2007
"It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge." The year is 2023, a time that bestselling author Caleb Carr paints in fascinating and believable detail. Much of the world enjoys the great wealth generated by the triumph of information technology, but horrifying poverty grips many countries, bitter wars rage over natural resources, and the failure of international regulatory...
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