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Mediaweek TV: FX's Justified + Bonus Clip Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:27PMAchieving small-screen success with Leonard's work, however, has been more elusive. One need look no further than 1998's short-lived Maximum Bob, starring Beau Bridges; and 2003's failed Karen Sisco, starring Carla Gugino.
Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 5:20AMIt's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died of cholera and starvation as the Turkish authorities tried to "Turkify" them in a converted Catholic college high above Beirut. But for once, it is ...
Out in force for the president Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3:24AMThe line started dozens deep over the weekend. By Saturday, it had swelled to hundreds of students, who had camped out overnight, hoping to get a golden free ticket and prime bleacher seating for Pre...
Proof of the Armenian genocide can be found at hilltop orphanage Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:30AMThe US wants to deny that Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut, reports Robert Fisk Related Stories Turkey earthquake: Dozens killed while they slept Interpol seeks 16 over Dubai assassination Israelis and Palestinians agree to US-led talks Pope's brother linked to child abuse claims Pope's brother Georg ...
Bookworms share their favorites Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:28PMWhat is your favorite book? Please explain why it is your favorite.
Annette John-Hall: Out in force for the president Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:02PMJohn-Hall: Author and single mom Leslie Banks was outraged about a hike in her insurance premiums. So, she fired off an email to President Obama. On Wednesday, the University City resident got to tell her story as part of the president's visit in Glenside.
S.J. Parris: Why Sherlock Holmes Beats CSI Any Day Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:42PMIt's forensics and DNA that have caused all the trouble. Time was, anyone could solve a murder in a detective novel, which meant just about anybody could have a go at writing one.
Crimes distort reality of schizophrenia Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 4:09AMCedar Rapids, Ia. - A newspaper lying in Steve Miller’s kitchen blared the latest front-page news about a person with schizophrenia. The big black headline announced: "Becker guilty."
Brian McKnight and Vivica A. Fox Star In "Cheaper To Keep Her" Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 11:00PMHouston, TX (BlackNews.com) -- Executive Producers Je'Caryous Johnson and Gary Guidry, founders of I'm Ready Productions, Inc., will debut Cheaper to Keep Her during a special limited engagement spring tour beginning in March 2010. The eleventh play in a series of box office breaking, critically acclaimed stage plays from NAACP Award-winning writer and director Je'Caryous Johnson, Cheaper to ...
The Reading Life: ‘Red Harvest' is loads of fun Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 11:34AMWhile Dashiell Hammett is best known for such brilliant mysteries as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man" (both made into classic films), his first mystery novel is "Red Harvest," published in 1929, and widely considered to depict a setting based on Butte, where Hammett spent time as a young man.
Search MI6 Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 5:08AMA man runs across a beach, desperate to reach a plane at the far end of it. He hands something to the pilot just as he takes off. The aircraft rises into a bank of fog, whereupon it erupts into a ball of flame.
Mankell's new novel is one slow boat to China Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:39AMHenning Mankell has written dozens of books and plays, but it took a troubled wreck of a detective to make him famous.
Emmy-winning TV producer also a best-selling novelist Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:53AMImagine you're an Emmy award-winning producer and writer, one of the most prolific in television history with at least 42 series to your credit.
Invasion of the Swedes: A cultural incursion from the north Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 6:08PMThey revolutionised British design though Ikea; gave us fast fashion at H&M and, of course, we thanked them for the music of Abba. Now the Swedes are taking over in the world of British page and screen.
Out of Frame: Red Riding Trilogy Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 12:51PMIt seems like a slur to call the Red Riding trilogy a "TV movie", but that's where it first aired, on Britain's Channel 4, a year ago. The trio look, feel, and were produced as big screen features though, and it's nice to see that IFC has picked them up for limited screenings throughout the U.S., hitting D.C. this week. These films deserve to be viewed in a theater. Based on a quartet of novels ...
A Writer Invites Russia to Engage Its Painful Past Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 8:36AMRussia ’s middle class: taking the sun at a giant resort hotel in Egypt. She and a girlfriend, who also grew up in St. Petersburg, joined the river of people flowing into the warehouse-size dini...
Has 'American Idol' jumped the shark? Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:33AMOver the years, "American Idol" has been a lot of things: a launching pad for undiscovered talent, fodder for national conversation and even a blending of politics and pop culture (remember the "red state-blue state" debate last season during the Kris Allen-Adam Lambert showdown?).
Same theme, different approach Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:15AMTwo New Zealand novelists take the same theme, revenge when a loved one is killed, but their treatment could not be more different.
Review: RED RIDING: 1980 Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:25PMThe most gripping chapter of the celebrated British noir crime trilogy.
Why don’t Jews write fantasy novels? Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:06PMIn no other field of modern literature have Jews contributed so little than to the genre of fantasy, says Michael Weingrad . So why is there no Jewish Narnia ?
Involuntary Witness, By Gianrico Carofiglio Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 6:22PMRecent events in Italy have made a compelling case for the return of this bestselling police procedural by a master of the form. Now a Senator in Rome, Gianrico Carofiglio used to prosecute mobsters in Bari.
The Snowman, By Jo Nesbø, trans, Don Bartlett Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 6:21PMWhat sort of issues do you expect your crime fiction to cover? If you feel that personal responsibility, cracks in the welfare state and the problems of parenthood are fair game for the crime novel, then Jo Nesbø is your man. All of these (and many more) are crammed into his weighty latest book, The Snowman.
Open author Ian Rankin's 'Doors,' and you will be glad you did Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 5:55PMJohn LeCarré has been my favorite contemporary author since I found The Spy Who Came in From the Cold three decades ago. With his brilliant plotting, elegant writing and careful characterization, LeCarré's espionage novels transcend his genre. Much more recently, I was delighted to discover that LeCarré has an equivalent in crime fiction.
Author David Corbett on 'Do They Know I'm Running?' Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 5:25PMCorbett's books have been compared to those of Graham Greene and Robert Stone.
Q&A with Julianne Balmain, writer of Napa Valley mysteries under the pen name Nadia Gordon Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 7:47PMJulianne Balmain has solved the mystery of the Napa Valley.
Suitably off beat Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 5:32PMNoir comedy series Bored To Death sheds new light, and a dollop of dry wit, onto the classic detective show.
Good company Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 3:27PMInspector Montalbano might be the friend you haven't met One of the attractions of our getting hooked on a series of novels with a recurring protagonist is the reassurance that once every year or so we'll have a friend to catch up with. What we don't like to think about is how it'll feel when that friend is in bad shape. BAD SHAPE: If Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano can’t get out of bed in the ...
Luminato literary program focuses on Africa, Iran Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 12:47PMToronto arts festival Luminato will focus on Africa in its literary program this year, bringing influential African writers, including Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Saskatoon sportswriter injured in street attack Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 11:07AMSaskatoon police are trying to track down the people who assaulted a 50-year-old man and put him in hospital with a brain injury.
STARZ AND TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS SET TO UNVEIL EIGHT-HOUR EVENT SERIES, BASED ON KEN FOLLETT'S GLOBAL BESTSELLER, 'THE ... Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 2:11AMIan McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Donald Sutherland and Alison Pill all star in the project, due this summer.
Starz and Tandem Communications Set to Unveil Eight-Hour Event Series, Based on Ken Follett's Global Bestseller, 'The ... Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 2:01AMStarz Entertainment has acquired U.S. television rights to TANDEM Communications' ground-breaking eight-hour television adaptation of Ken Follett's bestselling novel "The Pillars of the Earth."
Random House Book Fair boasts expanded events, visiting authors Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 11:20PMThe Random House Book Fair raised $40,000 for student scholarships for Carroll Community College last year, and organizers are hoping that expanded events and a wide range of visiting authors will attract more attendees this year, leading to even more scholarships.
Her mysteries cross the pond, and other worlds Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 4:45PMSt. Paul writer Erin Hart's latest book is steeped in Irish lore and St. Paul geography.
Tristate Regional News, Monday 3/1 Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 9:01AMKentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo says higher education could be spared deep budget cuts. Homeless residents who have been living beneath railroad tracks in downtown Indianapolis have been told they have until 5 p.m. today to move.
The 11 Best Male Movie Adaptions (PHOTOS) Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 7:07AMRoman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" premiered last week, and became just the most recent blockbuster thriller to be based on a book -- Robert Harris's "The Ghost."
The Unnamed Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 5:49AMWhen death is distant and life is taken for granted, our culture forgets God, focusing instead on bitching and kvetching. This predicament was the subject of Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End , an office comedy that asked what is of ultimate value in our highly bureaucratised lives.
BREAKING NEWS Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:48AMMark co-presents ITV News at Ten, often presenting on location from places as far afield as the Antarctic and Afghanistan.
Old York, Old York Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 2:40AMDark satanic mills and black-hearted villains in the Red Riding Trilogy . by Kelly Vance The vast, soggy county of Yorkshire in Northern England is ruggedly beautiful to look at, but you wouldn't want to live there. And if that was already your take on the place, then the Red Riding Trilogy — a grand, rambling panorama of misery and cruelty in the form of a detective story — will harden your ...
A Wonderland of Alice Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 12:09AMFrom James Joyce to Jefferson Airplane and, now, Tim Burton, Lewis Carrolls Wonderland novels have inspired more than a century of literature, fashion, arteven crime!
Book Review of "A Night Too Dark," by Dana Stabenow Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 11:00PMA NIGHT TOO DARK By Dana Stabenow Minotaur. 323 pp. $24.99
Author traces birth of forensic medicine in NY Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 4:04AM"The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" by Deborah Blum Penguin, 336 pages, $25.95
NONFICTION REVIEW: Detecting the cause of death Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 2:50AMHow do I poison thee? Let me count the ways: arsenic, mercury, strychnine, chloroform, wood alcohol and carbon monoxide. These were just a few of the options available to would-be murderers whose crimes were likely to go unpunished less than a century ago because of bumbling coroners and shoddy methods of chemical detection.
Fighting crime with chemistry Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 2:29AMHow do I poison thee? Let me count the ways: arsenic, mercury, strychnine, chloroform, wood alcohol and carbon monoxide.
Book review: Thai detective tangled in grisly case Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 2:21AMJohn Burdett's crime novels, narrated by Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, are lovely and complex. The streets of Thailand and, in the new "The Godfather of Kathmandu," of Nepal, are as vivid as any of his characters; the reader is transported to a foreign world made familiar through the voice of his guide.
Cattle rustler serving his time for thefts Sunday, February 28, 2010 @ 1:01AMQUANAH -- Born 100 years too late, Roddy Dean Pippin rides a horse down the main drag, doing his best John Wayne.He still fits the part of the cowboy in this spit of Texas near the Red River, with its church-steepled skyline and landscape of mesquite ...
Murder by the Drop Saturday, February 27, 2010 @ 2:43AMA rich history of the development of forensics in New York, by a Pulitzer-winning science writer.
I Was a Teenage Illiterate Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:48PMBliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young and ignorant of the classics was very heaven.
Murder Most Global Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:46PMIn Henning Mankell’s new crime novel, the causes of a massacre in Sweden stretch into the past and around the world.
Matters of the heart – the enigma of womanhood Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:06PMI have always wondered why there have been so many witty sayings, epigrams, proverbs, and jokes involving women. Some good male writers have turned out their best lines when they are talking about women and some famous and brilliant women have left us some unforgettable lines about their own sex.
FANTASY IN DEATH Friday, February 26, 2010 @ 9:53PMI have no idea how J.D. Robb does it. Her futuristic crime novels featuring NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas consistently rock. The latest installment in the series, FANTASY IN DEATH, deals with a topic about which her readership probably couldn’t care less. Play a lot of video games recently?