Janet Rudolph 's Mystery Fanfare points to a couple of recent articles of interest to fans of mysteries. First, thriller novelist Jason Pinter asks six reviewers to weigh in on the "State of the Crime Novel" for The Huffington Post: I'm a crime addict, a thriller writer, a lover of everything that goes bump (and bang, and slash, and boom) in the night. Yet as a former editor I'm fascinated...
Wow, I have read a total of zero of the New York Times Book Reviews top ten books of 2009 . I at least own Lords of Finance and have another coming from the library, but sheesh! I like the Atlantic Best of List , as it has many thick history books I have been seeking. Here are my top reads of the year, some of which were published this year, some not. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. This one recently...
Booklover Comedian Jeremy Elwood is currently touring New Zealand in the Comedy Christmas Gala. The book I love most is... A toss up between The Art Of War by Sun Tzu, and Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. The former because it can be read so many different ways, and applied in so many situations. Contrary to popular belief, its main focus (at least according to the Denma Translation I have) is to avoid...
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at an isolated mental hospital to investigate a patient's escape but becomes a prisoner himself. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane - Psychiatric hospital - Arts - Martin Scorsese
Okay... so I am exaggerating from the top. I know that there are writers who actually review movies... and not the books or scripts or previous versions from which they were spawned. You just wouldn't know it to read Variety. And since Variety has become the #1 embargo breaking website in the film world - and they are so anxious to be #1 in something, even if they have to act like #2s to do so - you...
Finally, just in time for this week's issue, I have caught up with my archive of Booksellers. From the 23 October issue comes news of the paperbacks that will be published in the UK in February 2010. Among the predicted "top sellers" are Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (Bantam, £7.99), which opens with Jack Reacher suspecting a woman on the New York subway of being a terrorist. For me, these...
At PopMatters , former high school and college classmate (and the only guy I know what can pronounce Dorchester the way my grandfather did) Michael Patrick Brady reviews Boston Noir , a new anthology edited by new-classic author Denis Lehane. Brady writes, 'Boston is a city that long reveled in its underdog status; its citizens wore their disappointment like a badge, and now struggle with the embarrassment...
God bless Craig, not only is he damn entertaining, but he continues to help promote books and reading! Dennis and Craig have great chemistry. In theory, Dennis was there to promote the trade paperback of THE GIVEN DAY, but the two pretty much shoot the shit.
You’ll have to forgive us if we don’t reproduce the entire longlist for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , the commendation referred to as the “world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.” It’s a very long list , indeed. Nominations have come from 163 libraries in 123 cities and 43 countries worldwide....
By Pat Remick There were two "fun" things on my list of 2009 goals: seeing a moose in the wild and meeting author Dennis Lehane. I figured that fulfilling either would be fascinating – and I was correct. I met goal No. 1 in June when, using the “but it’s my birthday” excuse, I dragged Husband No. 1 and Son No. 2 to northern New Hampshire to find not one, but four,...
Want to see another Shutter Island trailer? I haven’t watched the other ones and I’m not watching this one, but don’t let that stop you. I’m told the second trailer was the same as the first. Had I watched either one, I might’ve known this. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island [...]
Another new trailer for Shutter Island has appeared online, and this one gives a very dark and scary look into the film. This one would make you think it's the closest that Martin Scorsese has come to horror yet, the opening certainly gave me a scare early this morning with the volume up. The film is adapted from the Dennis Lehane novel (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com) and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark...
So last week I’m flying to Hawaii to join my husband on a business trip where my big plan is to sit on the beach all day while he’s in meetings and then drink margaritas all night when he isn’t. Only his business gets cancelled last minute, but we still have the plane tickets so we end up staying a friend’s house, so much more fun, and I get girl time all afternoon and great...
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This year's Montana Festival of the Book, which begins Thursday, has an incredible lineup scheduled. The October 23 reading with humorist David Sedaris is sold out, but there's so much else going on that nobody who missed out on tickets for that event should go home with an empty brain. On Thursday, October 22, four renowned crime novelists will participate in the panel discussion The Last Good Kiss:...
Maybe there are editing issues. Maybe the studio has seen it and lost confidence in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel. Maybe Leonardo DiCaprio has no real interest, deep down, in that Academy Award he seemed to crave....
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