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For adult learners, OLLI is the program to join Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 7:28AM“When we went on the OLLI program’s first trip to Thailand, we explored parts of the country most tourists never get to see,” exclaims Fields Corner resident Diane McCormack, who chairs the Board of Directors of the UMass-based Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), part of a nationwide network of continuing education programs for adult learners. The UMass OLLI Director, Dr. Wichian Rojanawon ...
Lights, Camera, Groceries!: Tesco Supermarket Turns Film Producer Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 4:05AMBritain's largest supermarket chain has moved into filmmaking, confident its customers will pay for adaptations of their favorite novels. Is this a new revenue stream for the flagging DVD market -- or just another product doomed to spoil on the shelves?
Deaths Elsewhere / William Foster jazzed up marching-band style Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 12:04AMAt the University of Kansas in the late 1930s, William Foster was barred from joining the marching band because he was black.
' Red Riding,' now on DVD, offers three killer takes Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:44PMRed Riding,” a trilogy of films originally shown on British TV, may be the best cinematic crime epic since the “Godfather” series. But Francis Ford Coppola ’s mafia saga seems warm and snuggly compared with this violent, grim exercise.
New on DVD : ‘Harry Brown,’ ‘Red Riding,’ and More Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:34PMAbove: Michael Caine plays a retiree who goes on a roaring rampage of revenge in "Harry Brown."
Film Shorts Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:25PMGoing the Distance (R) Drew Barrymore and Justin Long star in this comedy as a New York couple who hook up with each other six weeks before she moves permanently to San Francisco to finish grad school.
Literary vagabond Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 2:05PMRyan Praefke looks like he’s just returned from a trip. He’s carrying a black case stuffed with books and a draft of the screenplay he’s currently working on but not ready to discuss.
Todd to read from crime novel Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:58AMCharles Todd will read from the new crime novel, 'An Impartial Witness,' at 7 p.m. Thursday, in Prairie Lights, 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City.
Lippman cements reputation among the best Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:17AMThe highest compliment I can pay Laura Lippman's new novel, "I'd Know You Anywhere," is to say it measures up to "What the Dead Know," which three years ago marked an artistic and commercial breakthrough for the Baltimore-based writer. Both novels, although ultimately quite different, concern the abduction of young women and the decades-long aftermaths of that horror.
'The Middle' still fun Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:46AMPatricia Heaton comedy arrives Tuesday on DVD with lots of cool extras
‘Crime Machine’ appealing Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 1:02AMGiles Blunt rolled onto the Canadian crime fiction scene five popular novels ago with Forty Words for Sorrow, not quite the first book of his career, but the first featuring the fictional Algonquin Bay's cop John Cardinal.
Five mysteries: D.C., drama, deadlines, duo and driver Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:09PMMYSTERIES If you find history, culture, skullduggery and politicians who can't keep their pants up, you must be in Washington. Ellen Crosby, who lives in Northern Virginia and knows the area well, centers much of The Viognier Vendetta (255 pages, Scribner, $24), her fifth novel featuring vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery, ...
Val McDermid: Crime and rewards Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:42PMCelebrated Scottish crime writer Val McDermid in conversation with Ramona Koval at the Melbourne Writers Festival
UK Crime Novelist Confessional At Library Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:18PMDunedin (Friday 27 August 2010) – Dunedin residents will have a chance to interrogate UK crime-writing sensation RJ Ellory on Friday 10 September when he talks about his latest novel, Saints of New York.
'The Pillars of the Earth' Reveals New World Order at MIPCOM 2010 Producers' Forum Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:02PMThe partners of the ground-breaking eight-hour television adaptation of Ken Follett's bestselling novel "The Pillars of the Earth" will present a major case study on the innovative development model behind the epic TV miniseries, premiering on Starz and Channel 4. Â "The Pillars of the Earth" Master Class will be an integral part of the Producers' Forum programme which will take place at MIPCOM ...
Ford Coppola to get Oscar Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:33PMFrancis Ford Coppola will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar at a special ceremony in November.
Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult Talk Franzen, Times Oversights Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:25AMAuthors Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult spoke with crime novelist Jason Pinter about their beef with the fawning over Jonathan Franzen and Franzen's Freedom as well as what they see as the narrow scope of coverage in the Times Book Review. Weiner and Picoult have both topped the NYT bestseller list on more than one occasion but both feel their work has been marginalized. The Times may ...
Secrets from the National Archive reveal Hitlers invasion plan, and the 'Russian spy' who brought James Bond to life Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 8:04AMNew government documents have been released which tell the tale of of spies who got away with it, spies who never were, and a phantom invasion
Look who is playing the new Inspector Morse Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 4:51AMPOPULAR television crime drama Inspector Morse, based on Colin Dexter’s best-selling novels, is to make its first-ever transition from screen-to-stage in House of Ghosts.
75 years of the penguin that revolutionised publishing Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:21PMBy Britta Guerke, London, Aug 26 : As Penguin Books tells it, the idea of publishing good quality fiction in low-priced paperbacks arose on a railway platform.
Seventy-five years of the penguin that revolutionised publishing Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:18PMLondon - As Penguin Books tells it, the idea of publishing good quality fiction in low-priced paperbacks arose on a railway platform.
WikiLeaks founder hires star lawyer over Swedish claims Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:12PMSTOCKHOLM (AFP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hired one of Sweden's top defence lawyers ahead of a looming decision by prosecutors about whether he will face molestation charges, reports said Tuesday.
Catering to readers Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 2:28AMBill Schaefer/Idaho State Journa Bill Schaefer/Idaho State Journal Mike Malone, of Blackfoot, earlier this month opened the Blackfoot Bookstore, selling new and used books, in the Riverside Plaza.
'True Blood' trio presenting Emmys, 'Kardashians' opens big Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:09AMSome "True Blood"- and Kardashian-flavored TV snacks for your nighttime enjoyment:"True Blood" stars Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard will present at the Emmy Awards on Sunday -- presumably while wearing more clothes than on their Rolling Stone cover. [Emmys]Quite a few people were "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" on Sunday. The E! show's season premiere logged 4.7 million ...
Grave new world Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:53PMFormer poet Peter Robinson bucks the conventions of crime writing to create a new kind of British homicide detective, writes Linda Morris.
Bad Boy, By Peter Robinson Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 6:19PMPeter Robinson's durable Inspector Alan Banks is about to invade our TV screens in the guise of actor Stephen Tompkinson, better known for lightly comic or tweely sentimental roles rather than the resolute character who has graced 19 books. Actually, it doesn't matter a damn. Robinson's distinguished police-procedural series need have no truck with the vagaries of TV casting. Unlike glossier ...
Pay The Cab Fare ... And Meet The Author, Too Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 11:33AMIt's not unusual to get in a cab and find a paperback novel on the seat next to the driver. What makes Jack Clark's cab different is that he's both the driver and the author. Clark is a Chicago cab driver who's been driving for 30 years -- and written three mystery novels.
'Twilight Saga' author Stephenie Meyer on Forbes top paid list Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 11:26AMForbes has revealed their top ten list of the highest paid authors. ' Twilight Saga ' author Stephenie Meyers comes in second place with a massive $40 million while crime novelist Jame Patterson hit the top spot with a whopping $70 million.
Iraq's still suffering as Tony Blair cashes in Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 2:25AMWhat's been achieved? Saddam was caught and hanged, but the purported reason for the invasion - his weapons of mass destruction - never existed.
Louise Doughty Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 2:09AMAs well as novels, Louise Doughty writes radio plays and journalism, broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4, and teaches at the Faber Academy. She'll be in Australia with her new novel, her sixth, called Whatever You Love . In it we meet Laura, who's divorced from her husband David. They had two children together: nine-year-old Betty and a younger son. Her ex-husband is now living with the other ...
'Nanny McPhee' has a slightly darker theme Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 4:00AM"Nanny McPhee Returns" (PG) - This enjoyable, if occasionally over-produced sequel to "Nanny McPhee" (PG, 2005) offers many pleasures, from pigs that do synchronized swimming to a cast of some of the best actors around. There are mature themes about the possibility of losing a father in war, and magical Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), with her facial warts, bad teeth, black garb, thudding cane and ...
Remembering Rutherford: Famous writers made this home Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 3:41AMFrom different generations, they both knew fame. One came to Rutherford to establish her legacy, and left only litigation. The other came to die.
True grit Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 11:38PMAdmit it. What everyone really wanted to see when they heard Angie Harmon was co-starring with Sasha Alexander in a new cop show — TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles” — was a little girl-on-girl action. Fans got their wish — sort of — in last week’s episode titled “I Kissed a Girl” in which...
Book Review: Storm Prey by John Sandford Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 11:32PMIt's amazing that 20 books into the Prey series, Lucas Davenport and the Prey books are still riveting. Storm Prey - John Sandford - Lucas Davenport - Arts - Shopping
What if Dostoyevsky had been an online gambler? Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 4:18AMPut the 19th-century Russian novelist in front of a computer screen and chances are he’d soon max out his credit card on a cyberspace roulette wheel rather than complete his rewrite of The Brothers Karamazov
Cyber-stalking is topic of Rosemary Graham's new YA novel Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 2:07AMSt. Mary's College professor Rosemary Graham has made a career of YA fiction. Her latest tackles the issue of cyber stalking and the idea that 'Stalker Girl' could be any one of us.
Hockey and homicide Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:31PMChicago author scores in new mystery series You know that a fictional character has gotten under your skin when you find yourself giving him career advice. I knew I'd crossed the literary Rubicon with Gus Carpenter when I began worrying that he might abandon his job at a small-town newspaper. He once worked for a big-city paper, see, and that kind of ambition is like a trick candle in a birthday ...
THREE STATIONS: An Arkady Renko Novel Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 8:00PMMartin Cruz Smith has won two Hammett Awards and one British Golden Dagger Award for his mystery fiction. This tells us two things: he knows how to twist a plot, and he is very, very smart.
Best Books For 20-Somethings: Did They Leave Any Out? Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 4:23PMBut sometimes the grimmest stuff provides the best fodder for novels, and sometimes being in the midst of the struggle allows for the best reading of those novels. Here are a few that aided us in our twenties.
Italian-American Group UNICO Takes Issue With Mafia II, Take-Two Responds Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 4:52PMUNICO National, which claims to be the largest Italian American service organization in the United States, has taken a stand against Take-Two Interactive in regards to the portrayal of Italians in Mafia II. Calling it "pile of racist nonsense", UNICO president Andre' DiMino is demanding that Take-Two hold back on releasing the title, which is due to hit retail on August 24th. Mafia II tells the ...
Reflections by Comrade Fidel: THE WORLD GOVERNMENT (Part I) Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 3:11PMLa Demajagua Newspapers.
Rooney Mara to Play Title Role in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 12:17PMRooney Mara has been cast in the leading role of Hollywood’s "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
The Girl Who Played With Fire Burns Up The Screen Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 6:02AMLisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is one of the best literary anti-heroines of this generation. by George Prentice The first thing you need to know about The Girl Who Played with Fire is that you won't be lost if you haven't seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. However, this second installment in the trilogy will definitely make you want to go back and see the first.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to ...
The Weigh In: Jersey Boy: The Life and Mob Slaying of Frankie DePaula by Adeyinka Makinde Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 2:51AMBudd Schulberg was a formidable writer who inhabited the worlds of fiction, screenwriting and sports journalism. His 1947 novel, The Harder They Fall, remains the definitive account of corruption in boxing induced by mafia influence.
Turning the Literary Canon into Artful Wall Posters Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 3:19PMWhat you're looking at is a clever arrangement of every word of Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella The Metamorphosis , in which the traveling salesman Gregor Samsa awakens one morning and finds that he's transformed into a giant insect. Postertext has transformed that enter text into a handsome 20-by-24-inch wall poster , just as it's done for novels like Crime and Punishment, Pride and ...
Nina Sankovitch: Zoe Ferraris Raises the Veil: Love and Murder Mysteries in Modern Saudi Arabia Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 1:55PMFerraris uses her first-hand knowledge of married life in a Saudi Arabian family and her capacious skills at imaginative storytelling to write books that open up a closed world and allow a reader to enter at will.
Author to speak for humanities council Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 3:08AMCOEUR d'ALENE - Sara Paretsky, the creator of one of the most popular characters in American modern crime fiction, is coming to Coeur d'Alene this fall to present the Idaho Humanities Council's annual Northern Idaho Distinguished Humanities Lecture, and tickets are now on sale.
'Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads' a go-to volume of thriller stories Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 2:35AMAs a child, David Morrell was constantly afraid. His parents often quarreled. He also had to spend time in an orphanage. To escape from this harsh reality, he immersed himself in thrillers.
'The Dead Lie Down' an operatic tale of murder and madness Sunday, August 15, 2010 @ 2:35AMSophie Hannah was already well-regarded as a poet before she turned to crime with the publication of her novel 'Little Face' in 2006.
Interview: Kate Atkinson, author Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 6:22PMI don't know how you rate Stephen King as a critic, but I've always thought he's pretty much on the money, and I've thought that ever since he rated Kate Atki