Fiction Literature

Benderspink gets 'Straw Men'

Exclusives: Film unit acquires rights to crime thriller -- Benderspink has acquired film rights to "The Straw Men," a crime thriller by Brit author Michael Marshall Smith, along with rights to the comic adaptation by Zenescope...

Friends recall spirit of GJ's New Age link

By LAURENA MAYNE DAVIS Sunday, November 30, 2008 Who knew that behind the liquid-brown eyes of Grand Junction High School class of 1955 senior Marilyn Grasso was the flicker of curiosity that would ignite the New Age movement?...

Cervantes Prize for writing goes to Marse

MADRID, Spain — Novelist Juan Marse, known for his descriptions of hardship in his native Catalonia region after Spain's civil war, has won the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor — the Cervantes Prize.

Moriarty Has Seen THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON!!

Hey, everyone. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is one of the most piercing, beautiful, eccentric studio movies in recent memory, an exquisitely crafted film about memory, love, opportunity, and the passage of time. When...

Fifty-to-One

For those who devour pulp paperbacks old and new, odds are even you’ll enjoy FIFTY-TO-ONE, the 50th novel from Hard Case Crime which also doubles as author Charles Ardai’s tribute to the 49 books before it, if not the entire...

Better Read Than Dead: Chrichton showed knowledge in 'Jurassic Park,' 'Andromeda Strain'

A few days from now will mark one month since science fiction and action-adventure genre superstar Michael Crichton died at age 66 of throat cancer. As a child of the 90s, he gave me some of the greatest mental thrills...

Christmas books: humour

Andy Miller separates the comics from the jokers in this year's crop of funny books Jonathan Ross's Why Do I Say These Things? So energetic and ingenious they occasinally forget the jokes: the Mighty Boosh There are plenty of...

Sci-fi: A monster TV success story

Sci-fi fans are in heaven - the success of Doctor Who has led to a galaxy of new TV shows. Twenty-seven years after the BBC last remade Day of the Triffids for television, the corporation has announced a new production of John...

From Marseilles to Baltimore: The French Connection and TV dramas

As The French Connection gets a new release, its director William Friedkin tells James Mottram how it paved the way for TV dramas from 24 to The Wire Monday, 1 December 2008 If there's any doubt that William Friedkin's The...

Claire Smith sees how a writers' workshop at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, run by the...

Published Date: 01 December 2008 IT LOOKS as if a riot is kicking off. The Scotsman has been invited to a read-through of six short plays that will be perf ormed before an invited audience in Polmont and at the Traverse Theatre...