“This clear time of seeing embers—A gold-bright sun’s lost in the first dusk.What frenzied senses, desp’rate muskAre consort of rememb’ring”—from Frank Herbert’s Dune: Book Two People say they like reading the book before seeing the movie version of something, but I actually tend to prefer…
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset” —David Grann, Killers…
“The ‘Juice’ is loose. Fasten your seatbelts…” You probably know him mostly from the adapted hit movie Trainspotting or his recent book-to-movie release Filth, and now your favorite Scottish author Irvine Welsh is coming out with a new novel A Decent Ride. Based on this CMYK Vintage…
“4 years on this train Reading, sitting next to you Too shy to converse” —Karen Munro, 56, Wallaceburg, Ontario Last year for National Poetry Month by The New York Times’ City Room brought New Yorkers together throughout the five boroughs for “A Call for Haiku About…
“How wild it was, to let it be.” Cheryl Strayed is never not producing amazing works, so it’s no wonder filmmakers are eager to get their hands on the author’s fabulous stories, especially in the latest adaptation of her memoir Wild: Lost And Found On the…
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” A while a go it was rumored that Neil Gaiman’s fourth prose novel American Gods would be developed into a TV series by HBO (AND that The Rock would be starring in it), but it seems after some…
“As most men do, you give them an inch and they take a mile” When I was younger the “thing” to do was go hangout at the local strip mall that had a hip bookstore we once knew as BORDERS (RIP). Rummaging through the fiction section…
“Be brave enough to break your own heart” Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer of Anima Sola Productions are pretty busy writers / producers: Big Love, Getting On, and now an adapted animated short film Dear Sugar is in the works based on author Cheryl Strayed‘s advice column that first appeared…
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other” With Of Mice and Men being my first official Broadway show since I became a New York resident, I was super giddy. And let’s just say the afternoon I went was the prime time for…
Ahh yes, books in the park! It seems as though sunny LA is fastly evolving in taking a more serious say, New York-approach to their city’s parks with events like the second annual Grand Park Downtown Bookfest, kicking off at noon today and lasting until…