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What was I THINKING? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Look, it's a reading challenge! Because, you know, I love books. Reading soothes me. Now, this list of the new classics comes from Entertainmant Weekly, so I admit that I'm a bit dubious as to the content in some of these books. However, in perusing the list to see what I'd already read, I saw that they had chosen some of my favorites that I would indeed include as "new classics" so what the heck
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Tangled Up in Blue Guy (Free subscription) | yesterday
So which books have you read from this list? Cut and paste, and then bold the books you’ve read while unboldng the ones you’ve not. Italicize the ones you want to and parenthesize the ones you have started and intend to finish: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Now in podcast form, John Crace presents his cult G2 column in which he summarises and satirises classic novels
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Marquez on the marquee A festival exclusively of films based on Marquez’s works will be held on July 27It is sometimes said that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most popular Malayalam novelist. The Nobel-prize winning author from Columbia has had tremendous following in Kerala with the success of Malayalam translations of his novels like ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’.He...
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Mundifrases (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
De Gabriel García Márquez, temática: Ayuda
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Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A long-lost screenplay written 40 years ago by a struggling author named Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about to get the feature film treatment. Mexican actor and producer Rodolfo de Anda says he has just acquired the rights to the long-forgotten screenplay and plans to start filming next year. Titled Frontera, the film was written before the 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude turned Garcia Marquez...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Filed under: Foreign Language , Deals , RumorMonger , Scripts , Western While the big-screen adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera could not, unfortunately, live up to the text's expectations, the famous writer is getting another shot. This time, however, it's an old screenplay. The Guardian reports that Mexican actor and producer Rodolfo de Anda says that he has picked...
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Macondo: Named after the fictional Colombian village in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude , this new Lower East Side restaurant gives Latin street food a gourmet twist. We stopped in for dinner Thursday night, and though they're still working out the kinks (the frozen drinks took forever, and some of the staff had no idea what they were setting down on the table) it's worth a...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Fantasy and reality intersect deep in the Amazonian jungle in Cincinnati Opera's "Florencia en el Amazonas," which opened Thursday in Music Hall.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Fidel Castro kept a frenetic schedule for nearly five decades as a global icon who infuriated 10 U.S. presidents. Now 81 and ailing, he describes his most pressing activity as reading and writing about the news.
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: N.M. Kelby's Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill. About the book, from the publisher: Take a slasher-movie actress, a Scottish circus clown, an FBI school dropout, a blind heiress, a junk-food-loving millionaire developer, and a Buddha-quoting bluesman, add a couple of murders in a normally sedate retirement community in south Florida, and you get an
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Now that OK! Magazine has the exclusive first story that Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves have named their first child Levi, I think there’s little doubt that we can look forward to seeing the baby’s debut in the pages of OK!. I figured Matt might name his kid after some moderately obscure God of leisure, but [...]
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
A private company now manages Hacienda Napoles and in December opened it as a rustic theme park.
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moviehound | 11/16/2007
Before you head out to the cinema this weekend, check out the trailers and our reviews for this week’s new movies.
