Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010 Hosted by Book Chick City Timeline: 01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010 Rules: To read TWELVE (12) thrillers in 2010 Details: You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront then you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go....
Super Punch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Japanese book cover for Patricia Highsmith's Eleven, spotted in this Highsmith cover gallery . And a few more links: 1. That's a lot of wedding bands . 2. Captain Morgan hoped to promote its brand by encouraging players to celebrate by assuming that moronic Captain Morgan pose. After one Philadelphia Eagle did it, the NFL warned against further displays. 3. Stephen King intends to write a new Dark...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Awesome Author Challenge Hosted by At Home with Books The idea behind this challenge is to read works by authors who have been recommended to you time and again, yet somehow you haven't managed to read any books by those authors. These are the authors that everyone else tells you are awesome, thus the "Awesome Author Challenge" title. The Rules: The challenge starts January 1, 2010 and ends...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The thriller stars Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine.
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The November issue of The Short Review is up, and it's got a fresh new look and logo. Very nice! Included this month are reviews by Shellie Zacharia, Deborah Kay Davies, Richard Lange, Patricia Highsmith, and others! Don't forget the interviews--always fascinating.
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
At the conclusion of a interesting post about various smartly designed editions of Patricia Highsmith ’s five Tom Ripley novels, the Caustic Cover Critic blog notes: “Highsmith, by the way, is the only serious writer I can think of who had the dubious honour of getting a nude photo of herself put on the cover of her biography (and not by her choice, given that she was dead several years...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I've asked six of the most renowned crime fiction critics in the country to weigh in with their thoughts on the state of the crime novel. I hope you find their responses as interesting as I did.
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
This enjoyable PR job for the mollusc by an Oxford GP reveals that Patricia Highsmith was always accompanied by her pet snails, usually in her handbag but "carefully positioned under each breast" when travelling abroad.
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The first book in the Patrick Hamilton’s Gorse trilogy, part of which sourced the excellent tv series The Charmer, was The West Pier . Graham Greene generously described it as ‘the best book written about Brighton’. It was published in 1951, and was followed by Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953) and Unknown Assailant (1955). The series was actually meant to be a quartet, but the fourth...
Reading matters (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
BBC Radio 4 is carrying out an interesting exercise as part of its Open Book programme. It asked 10 British/Irish authors to nominate the books that they "feel most deserve to be re-read and reinstated onto our bookshelves". The list of neglected books, which is being discussed on radio, looks like this: William Boyd nominated The Polyglots by William Gerhardie Susan Hill nominated The Rector's...
The Ibooknet Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
BBC Radio 4's programme Open Book is running a Neglected Classics series where established authors champion an under-rated title from the past. The books championed are: The Polyglots by William Gerhardie The Rector's Daughter by F M Mayor A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov Many Dimensions by Charles Williams Esther Waters by George Moore The Quest for Corvo by A J A Symons Rasselas by Samuel...
The Sweetest Cherry in an Apple Pie (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Every year I set myself a challenge to read 50 books in one year, and I've never done it before. AND THIS YEAR FINALLY I HAVE YESSS. 1. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife 2. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief 3 & 4. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor - Red Dwarf and Better than Life 5. Lisa Dalby - Geisha 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 7. Amanda Foreman - Georgiana,...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Wim Wenders' gripping drama is slated for high-definition in the new year. The Criterion Collection has revealed 'Paris, Texas' will have a Blu-ray release on January 26. The Blu-ray release will feature...
Life must be filled up (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Thanks to Susie Vereker , I’ve just read this list of the 50 Most Annoying Things About the Internet. I’m sure people could add to this. Now for a good thing about the internet: reading people’s book recommendations. Not necessarily the latest books, but older, perhaps out of print books which the writer loves. Radio 4’s A Good Read has been doing this for years; guests introduce...
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