PETRONA (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
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...
Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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.
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
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....
Hello, My Name Is Alice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've been meaning to post the second part of my R.I.P. IV challenge wrap-up days ago, but other stuff kept getting in the way. Back in September , I posted that I had completed the challenge after reading two books (I picked the level "Peril the Second" ). The challenge ended on 31st October 2009 and although I'd hoped to read 7 books to try to cover all the perils (I know, I know, I'm so...
Working Stiffs (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
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,...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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...
Judith Coughlin (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
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...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
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:...
dhs literary show + tell (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
7 pm Monday tonight at Legacy Books . Be there or be square. Reed is in Dallas after winning the Shamus Award for Best Novel( EMPTY EVER AFTER ) at Bouchercon last week! [A candid Coleman shot courtesy of Duane Swierczynski ] TOWER is a meeting of great minds -- Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman have wowed critics and readers alike. "one of the finest and most powerful novels of the year...[TOWER...
Books are my only friends (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Well I was hoping for another Given Day, but it looks like Lehane is finally going back to Kenzie and Gennaro. His next book is a sequel to Gone Baby Gone . The book takes place 11 years after Gone Baby Gone. The young girl of that story is now a teen and has disappeared....again. I'm a little sad that we won't get a new Given Day (yet!) but I am also happy to see Kenzie and Gennaro again.
Bildungsroman (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Today, Thomas Randall discussed memorable opening lines of mystery novels at Books by Their Cover. Here's a sneak peek: THE COLD OPEN It was a dark and stormy night. The ultimate cliche but I must confess, I'm fond of it. Who doesn't love a story that begins on a dark and stormy night? Both as a reader and as a writer, I have a great deal of respect for an opening sentence or paragraph that can really...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
As much as I pumped Dennis Lehane earlier this year when he made a rare trip to the UK, he was loath to reveal any significant details concerning his next novel, which brings back Beantown private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro (last seen in Prayers for Rain, 1999). But this morning, Lehane spills a few beans in the pages of The Boston Herald:Boston mystery man Dennis Lehane is
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
I managed to avoid the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and I’m not about to break down and watch this one. I have no idea how it’s different than the first one, but enjoy. In case you’ve forgotten, the film based on Dennis Lehane’s novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, [...]
Clipta (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of a novel by Dennis LeHane (MYSTIC RIVER). DiCaprio plays a U.S. marshal who travels to Shutter Island in search of the person who killer his wife. But when he enters the island's hospital, he discovers that the people there are performing experiments that are in direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
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