Los Angeles Times: Critic Betsy Sharkey writes: “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us. Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient — turning what should be a feel-bad movie […]
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Movies | ‘The Help’: Viola Davis elevates film over book | Seattle Times Newspaper Is the movie version of “The Help” better than the book? Yes, it is, primarily for one reason: The book doesn’t have Viola Davis in it. I loved the novel The Help, with its focus on how telling our life story
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Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008 – NYTimes.com The publishing industry has expanded in the past three years as Americans increasingly turned to e-books and juvenile and adult fiction, according to a new survey of thousands of publishers, retailers and distributors that challenges the doom and gloom that tends to dominate discussions of the industry’s
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Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore Faces Closing – NYTimes.com Even now, 162 years after his death here, Edgar Allan Poe still seems to be suffering from the kind of bad luck that haunted his life. For a second year city leaders have chosen not to subsidize a museum in the tiny house where the
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Why Do We Care About Literary Awards? Mark O’Connell answers his own question: By and large, awards like the Booker are intended to promote solid, well-written, more or less middlebrow fiction — the kind of books that broadsheet newspapers tend to give coverage to. And that’s surely a good thing for the publishing industry, for
Vote For Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles : NPR. Hurry! NPR wants your votes. Vote for 10 titles from their list. They will then put together a list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy titles.
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Stephen King’s ‘Bag of Bones’ to be A&E Miniseries, Starring Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan is set to star in the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s 1998 bestseller, Bag of Bones. The James Bond actor will return to television for the four-hour, two-night Sony Pictures Television event on A&E. Kelly Rowland and Annabeth Gish (as Jo)
This article about a book group originally formed at a Borders store prompted me to post about my own formerly-Borders group. We are a general group. Although fiction probably dominates, we read both fiction and nonfiction. We originated about 12 years ago in a Borders store that went down in the first round of closings.
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The Millions : Good Luck, Memory Michael H. Rowe laments that he often has trouble remembering details about books he has read. There isn’t any inherent reason to worry about forgetfulness, of course. Reading is reading; what you remember can seem a gift and what you forget just one of many things that, slipping away,
It appears to be all over for the Borders bookselling chain. The company will be liquidated — meaning sold off in pieces — and almost 11,000 employees will lose their jobs. The chain’s 400 remaining stores will close their doors by the end of September. Say what you like, it’s a sad day for book
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