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We’ve been in touch with Mr. Sallis a bit about coming to sign at the store. It won’t be for several months, but Jim has asked if he can bring his band to entertain attendees…stay tuned! From jamessallis.com: Latest Sallis News…May 2011: Watch a two-minute clip of theDrive movie on the Cannes Festival website. Some comment on it here, here,here and here. [...]
Review by Judith Starkston (judithstarkston.com) The sleuth in this mystery is Edna Ferber during her early years in Appleton Wisconsin before she had started her career as a novelist (Show Boat, So Big,Giant) and become a member of the Algonquin Round Table. You might want to read this mystery in honor of Elizabeth Taylor, whose stunning [...]
Book Review Monday APRIL 18, 2011 by Dana Seldom have I read a mystery novel more in the moment than Richard Thompson’s Big Wheat. It’s the summer of 1919, and heartbroken by lover Mabel who has cast him off, twenty-three year old North Dakota farm hand Charlie Kreuger pins his abusive father to the kitchen table with a [...]
Crying Blood (Poisoned Pen $24.95 Jan. 29). Casey reports that “the precipitating event in this book is something that happened pre-Oklahoma statehood in 1907, when the eastern half of the area was still the Indian Territory divided among the so-called Five Civilized Tribes including the Muscogee or Creek Nation.” Now, in 1915, when Shaw and [...]
In the early 60′s, there was a hot art-house movie called The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. I think of this film sometimes when trying to help my writer patients working on long-form projects—novels, plays, screenplays, etc. The running analogy is a good one, because long-form writing is like running a marathon: it requires [...]