Dog Ear (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Without missing a beat, Mrs. Miller rattled off a stream of obscenities so fully and completely unexpected that I fell off my chair. Mothers were defiled, and their male and female children, as well as any and all offspring who just happen to’ve been born out of wedlock. As for the sacred union that produced [...]
CinemaTech (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
While in LA last month, I had a chance to sit down with "Heroes" creator Tim Kring in the show's production offices. Kring is part of a session I'm hosting on October 24th at the Boston Book Festival . We talked for about a half-hour. I asked Kring about the ukelele made of mango wood that was sitting on a stand in his office, and he played a couple chords for me. We talked about George Lucas...
Gscene News Archive (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
This lovely book from Dale Peck (him of ‘Martin & John’ fame) is a brilliantly warm and clever read. It was a delight to turn the pages and sent me scurrying off to my dictionary more than once, but that’s part of the story. It’s an intellectually teasing, touching and very funny story and made me laugh and moved me to the point of tears; not something this cynical old reviewer...
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
by Dale Peck ages: 14+ First sentence (ARC): "I have a secret." Review copy sent to me by the publisher. Sometimes, regardless of plot or characters or even how the book ends, a particular voice in a book (or of a book) totally and completely wins you over. Sprout is one of those voices: observant, witty, sarcastic, yet full of heart, longing, and desire. He completely won me over, in spite...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
LGBT people born today: 100BC – Julius Caesar – Roman Emperor – Died 15th March 44BC 1863 – Mary Emma Woolley – US Activist – Died 5th September 1947 1933 – Scott Symons – Canadian Author – Died 23rd February 2009 1935 – Monique Wittig – French Author – Died 3rd January 2003 1948 – El Kazovsky – Hungarian Painter –...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Behold the deal-making power of recently merged megaagency William Morris Endeavor: The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that WME client Michael Bay has bought film rights to the first book in a six-part series of young-adult sci-fi novels co-written by none other than WME client James Frey. Riding high on his Transformers windfall, Bay reportedly paid in the "high six...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Last night, Borders Time Warner Center hosted a Gay Young Adult Reading in celebration of Gay Pride Weekend in New York City. Headed by author and Scholastic Executive Editor, David Levithan, the panel consisted of 7 Gay Young Adult Authors, most of whom had written gay-themed novels. They included such authors as, Nick Burd, ( The Vast Fields of Ordinary ), David Levithan himself and co-author, David...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Last night, Borders Time Warner Center hosted a Gay Young Adult Reading in celebration of Gay Pride Weekend in New York City. Headed by author and Scholastic Executive Editor, David Levithan, the panel consisted of 7 Gay Young Adult Authors, most of which had written gay-themed novels. They included such authors as, Nick Burd, ( The Vast Fields of Ordinary ), David Levithan himself and co-author,...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
“Self-portrait” (detail), 1973, Francis Bacon (Photo, Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Remember the furor when Dale Peck anointed Rick Moody “the worst writer of his generation” in the New Republic a few years back? Or when James Wood said, also in TNR, that John Updike was so solipsistic that he might, at times, not [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
While some of us were taking a last-minute stroll through the Javits Center to close out BookExpo America , John Oakes (with the bullhorn) and Colin Robinson took a bunch of their friends out on the historic fireboat John J. Harvey —you may remember the upcoming memoir by its mechanic , Jessica Dulong —to celebrate the launch of their new publishing company, OR Books . The two plan to...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/13/2009
Did the prosperity of the last 20 years make American novelists soft? On Tuesday April 14 at 7pm, critic Walter Benn Michaels , The Wire creator and journalist David Simon (pictured), author Susan Straight , and novelist-critic Dale Peck will debate that question at the New York Public Library. Co-sponsored by Bookforum, the literary conversation will debate what "The Death of Boom Culture"...
KR Blog (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
A quick hit (or short take?) of my own, while I cook up a meatier post for later in the week. I saw this profile of Dale Peck (via Bookninja) earlier today. I nominate this exchange for today’s Chutzpah Award: Q: Do you feel like you’ve lived up to your reputation as literary crusader in your own [...]
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
Dale Peck scores another 15 minutes of shame . Is it just me or is the CBC really going to the dregs? Sigh . . .
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
The virginal teenagers and swooning vampires of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series wouldn't last long in Dale Peck's violent, overheated supernatural thriller, "Body Surfing."
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