Sam Harris, author of Letter to a Christian Nation, published an Op-Ed in the LA Times on Monday that has been the subject of much debate among Liberals. His article essentially says that Liberals are “dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world.”
“Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians….”
So begins LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION by Sam Harris, author of THE END OF FAITH
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The L.A. Times reports in an interview with Bret Easton Ellis that his next book will be a sequel to LESS THAN ZERO. After finishing his tour for LUNAR PARK, Ellis plans to begin writing the new book.
Reviewed by Alicia Magda
Marilyn Monroe. Jean Harlow. Lana Turner. The mere mention of these names conjures up an image of a glamorous, confident, fearless woman. These “bombshells” introduced the world to the combination of brains and beauty. The Bombshell Manual of Style delves into the inner glitter that makes every stylish woman tick. (more…)
Reviewed by Christopher Zubris
This book can be summed up in one word. Smell. Its all about the 18th life of Jean-Babtiste Grenouille a boy who’s mother tried to leave him for dead at birth in a pile of fish guts at a Parisian market. Instead of dying he’s found alive and given to monks as an orphan. Our boy Grenouille is passed from wet nurse to wet nurse, all complaining that ‘the boy doesn’t smell they way a child should, in fact he doesn’t smell at all!’. (more…)
Reviewed by Kyle Cicilioni
One of the most creative book I’ve read is The Stranger. Once you get used to the dialect, it is easy to understand. There are very few spots in the book where you get lost. One thing I especially liked about Camus’ writing is the way he makes you think. Although I said that the book is quite easy to understand, that does not mean it can be read by anyone. (more…)
Reviewed by Niccole Paytosh
At some point in life I learned that there are precious few authors that can ever truly write: capturing real magic, defining it with human words, and then printing it on paper. Fewer still can do it twice in one lifetime. Peter S. Beagle is one of those authors, writing with a perfect blend of simplicity and power that always manages to find the magic in any situation. (more…)
Reviewed by Ait-Abbad
This book is written in a simple and direct literary style, as opposed to what was customary back then. Although the story is rich in places, characters and events, it is fast-paced and no time is wasted on long conversations or lenghty descriptions. Voltaire comes right to the point, which is something that Hugo or Dostoevsky just couldn’t do. (more…)
Jill Ciment’s TATTOO ARTIST has won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for 2005. The award recognizes the best work of fiction by a woman and is given annually by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester. Past winners include Toni Morrison, Valerie Martin, Anne Tyler, Mary Gordon, and Ann Patchett.
A PBS documentary film, “Marie Antoinette” airing on PBS September 25, 2006 (check local listings), by David Grubin (“Napoleon”) features Antonia Fraser as one of the main speakers. It’s is a surprising portrait in which the monarch emerges as a sympathetic and, in the end, courageous figure. (more…)
Senator Entertainment has optioned screen rights to Bret Easton Ellis short-story collection “The Informers.” Nicholas Jarecki will direct a script he’s writing with Ellis. Senator’s Marco Weber produces. (more…)
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