New York: Stephen King will take on crime for a novel coming out next year. The author of 'Carrie' and other horror classics has a deal with the publisher Hard Case Crime for 'Joyland,' a whodunit scheduled for June 2013. King was an early advocate for e-books, but in a statement released Wednesday he said he has such fond memories of reading crime stories as a kid that 'Joyland' will...
01:25 PM, May 30, 2012
When Alison Bechdel wrote, 'Fun Home', a graphic novel about her closeted gay father and her relationship with him, it was received with great aplomb. Critics loved it and so did the regular readers. I read it last month and was in absolute love with it. At the end of the book, I wondered, What about Alisons mother? What about her point of view and her life? and the wonder...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates "desi" cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says. Even 10 years ago, romantic novels spun stories about a man and one woman, whose sacrosanct monogamous love twisted and turned its way to the altar after epic struggles. Brazen romantic love as a subject of mass fiction was...
01:54 PM, May 16, 2012
Mexico City: Carlos Fuentes, a towering literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Tuesday at a hospital in the Mexican capital. He was 83. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but the writer was known to suffer from heart problems. An acclaimed novelist and essayist who taught at Princeton and other elite universities, Fuentes also served Mexico as a diplomat, though he often despaired over his country's...
01:46 PM, May 16, 2012
London: It may lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," will have the magic touch. The book's title was announced on Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis and publication date. The publisher said the "blackly comic" tale of rivalry and duplicity in a small English town would be available worldwide on...
11:49 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Four men meet under the cover of anonymity at a pub perched on top of a hill at Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, accessible only by a malfunctioning cable car. They order their drinks (single malt, on the rocks, gin and tonic, vodka, neat and lager) and decide on not revealing their real identities. The story of the graphic novel Agent Vinod - The Jungfrau Encounter lurches forward...
11:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New York: Universal Pictures and Focus Features have acquired the rights to EL James' bestselling erotic novel, 'Fifty Shades of Gray.' In a joint announcement Monday, Universal and Focus called the word-of-mouth sensation a "special story." First released by an Australian publisher, James' novel is an explicit tale about billionaire Christian Grey and college student Anastasia Steele. Vintage Books, a paperback imprint of Random House Inc, recently became the US...
02:09 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: Literature is best left alone in the spirit of celebrated French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard's philosophy that good literature makes bad cinema, says filmmaker and writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza. "I feel as a form literature exists in the written word - let it be here as the raison d'etre why somebody writes. Whenever I read a good book, it never crosses my mind to make a film," Mirza told...
01:55 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: In times when several Bollywood filmmkaers are taking inspiration from books for their movies, Sujoy Ghosh's 'Kahaani' is soon to be adapted into a novel. Advaita Kala, who has penned the script of the film, plans to write a novel on the same story line, but with a twist. The book might be launched towards the end of 2012. "Advaita is penning the story. She is going to...
02:14 PM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: After playing the magical Harry Potter for 11 years, Daniel Radcliffe is stepping away from his boy wizard persona to play a widowed lawyer in his next film 'The Woman in Black'. The 22-year-old actor said in an interview that the upcoming horror film is the real test of his acting skills. "For many people, this will be a test of my skills and will help me break...
08:44 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Historian Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi and novels and essays by Gopalakrishna Pai, Kashinath Singh and Manik Sitaram Godghate alias Grace are among 22 books which were awarded prestigious Sahitya Akademi Awards for this year. Eight books of poetry, seven novels, three essays and one each short story, narrative history, biography and play were selected for this year's awards. While Guha got the award for his book of...
02:11 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Kishwar Desai, author and wife of Indian-born British economist Meghnad Desai, has signed a three-book joint publishing deal with Simon & Schuster UK. Clare Hey, Senior Commissioning Editor at Simon & Schuster UK, bought the UK and Commonwealth and Indian rights in two new novels from Desai, whose debut, Witness the Night, won the Costa First Novel Award 2010. The deal also includes UK and Commonwealth rights for...
05:29 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Stieg Larsson's novel 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, is getting a graphic makeover by Vertigo. The company is planning to publish a graphic novel based on the original in November. The first book from the best-seller trilogy has already been adapted on the big screen in Hollywood, starring Bond actor Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in lead roles. The series also has...
01:31 PM, Jan 14, 2012
London: Actor James Franco is to release his first novel 'Actors Anonymous', which is loosely inspired by his experiences in Hollywood. The 33-year-old has sold the book to online retailer Amazon, reported Daily Mirror. Although its Franco's debut novel it is not his first book - he previously released a collection of short stories entitled 'Palo Alto'. The actor is well renowned for his love of changing his work constantly,...
02:04 PM, Jan 06, 2012
London: Stroll the grimy backstreets of Dickensian London and experience for yourself the sights and sounds which inspired one of the greatest writers in English literature. Computer tablet users can now travel to the darker side of London as Charles Dickens knew it, with an interactive novel-cum-app launched on Friday by the Museum of London that is the next best thing to having your own time machine. The graphic novel,...
08:02 PM, Dec 09, 2011
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