“The novelist Leonid Lenov…foretold the day when all the peoples of the earth would celebrate his birthday; the new calendar would begin with the birth of Stalin rather than with the birth of Christ.” Lavrenti P. Beria, Stalin’s sinister and feared secret police chief:“Millions of fight...
Daughter and biographer of that great actor, Gerald du Maurier, MISS DAPHNE DU MAURIER has high claims in her own right as a novelist. Although she has only been writing for some seven or eight years, she has already given us “Jamaica Inn” and “Rebecca.” ...
Jack Black spent most of his life on the wrong side of the law. The novelist and historian R. L. Duffus claims that Black was credited with over half the robberies that took place in the first year after San Francisco was hit by the 1906 earthquake. In between stick-up jobs and break...
Such frankness feels unfamiliar coming from such a lauded writer. In the English-speaking world, the fiction of the overnight success still has a powerful hold over the way we talk about books. (‘Ssh, don’t tell people that,’ a PR person muttered to a novelist friend of mine when ...
They crop up in so many places—from hidden gems, like the laundries of South Lake Union or synagogues converted to churches in the Central District, to ones I had long thought about but had not truly understood, such as the historic path of the Duwamish River.With Nicole’s support and...
They included the Dutch linguist Gaston Dorren, who I met when our debut books came out in 2015; Northern Irish short story writer, novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell, who I’ve known since we were aspiring authors in our teens; and Uzbek novelist and journalist Hamid Ismailov, who I ...
Not only that, but Angèle Rawiri is widely credited with being Gabon’s first novelist, leading withElonga, published in 1986. I’ve featured a number of trailblazing female writers lauded as their nations’ first published women on this blog over the years (among themKunzang ChodenandPaulina...
Divided into four chapters, Ways of Going Home is actually a marriage of two storylines: One tells the story of a young boy in the 1980s, beginning with his experience of an earthquake; the second is about the novelist writing the story of the young boy. In Zambra’s capable hands, the...
Like the hero of his novel in ‘A Dry White Season’, Ben Du Toit, thelate South African novelist Andre Brinkwas considered a “veraaier” (traitor) by his own Afrikaaner people by taking the side of those fighting against the National Party’s evil apartheid regime. ...
Bullock is Loretta Sage, a reclusive romance novelist who has given up on love in her own life after the death of her husband. Channing Tatum is simply perfect as the himbo cover model for her books who is secretly in love with her. When an unhinged billionaire kidnaps Loretta because her...