Congratulations to “Temple Grandin,” which won the top honor for Outstanding Made for Television Movie at the 62nd Emmy Awards. This HBO bio-pic based on the life of Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures, also took home four other major awards, making it the most decorated show of the evening!
Read on to find out more about the film and the book.
More >Not only is A Gate at the Stairs is Lorrie Moore’s newest national bestseller, but it’s also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and a Nationwide Best Book of the Year.
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More >Rooney Mara will star as Lisbeth Salander along with Daniel Craig in the US adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s phenomenal bestseller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
More >Cormac McCarthy’s complete collection of work is now available in eBook! From the acclaimed Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain), to the epic novel Blood Meridian, and even the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Road, McCarthy has established himself as an American master. Download on your device today!
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More >Three of John Cheever’s classic novels are now available for the first time in eBook! Bullet Park is a lyrical and mordantly funny hymn to the American suburb; Falconer, a classic story of crime and punishment, and one man’s struggle to maintain his dignity in a cold universe; and Oh What a Paradise It Seems—Cheever’s last novel, a powerful fable that tells the story of one man pitted against nothing less than the forces of late-twentieth-century civilization. Download them for your device today!
More >The untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy, The Dead Hand by David Hoffman is now in paperback.
More >P. D. James is the author of 20 books, most of which have been filmed for television. Before her retirement in 1979, she served in the forensics and criminal justice departments of Great Britain’s Home Office, and she has been a magistrate and a governor of the BBC. The recipient of many prizes and honours, she was created Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. In 2000 she celebrated her 80th birthday and published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest.
More >On July 31st, on NPR’s “All Things Considered” interviews were made for Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis discussing their careers and their most recent books. Both authors have somewhat of a bond between them, they both share the same type of character and have found other similarities to their writing styles. Through the years, they have become friends. Listen to both interviews from the links below.
More >There’s another detective series from Swedish writers that came before Stieg Larsson. This other series also happens to feature an abused woman, similar to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Coincidence? Or, did Larsson maybe gather influence from this set of Swedish writers?
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, a couple from Sweden have written ten books that complete their Martin Beck mystery series. The last book in the series, The Terrorists, just came out this week in paperback.
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