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Amazon to unveil its $1bn bet with 'Lord of the Rings' prequel launch

LOS ANGELES - Stanley Kubrick once famously said that J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy of novels was unfilmable.

Bangkok Post · Aug 31, 2022

Did J.K. Rowling write a 1,000+ page book because Twitter hurt her feelings?

The egregiously long book is about a transphobic animator who gets murdered after creating a story about a hermaphroditic worm.

Mic · Aug 31, 2022

White Noise review – Don DeLillo adaptation is a blackly comic blast

DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022

Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review – in search of the elusive author

The historian shines a light on the modernity of Christie’s crime fiction and debunks the myths surrounding her disappearance

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2022

Gwendolyn Kiste rewrites famous horror heroines' stories in 'Reluctant Immortals'

PITTSBURGH — There was always something about the stories of Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason that Gwendolyn Kiste felt were incomplete — and that's putting it generously.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'Diary of a Misfit,' by Casey Parks

Putting down this wonderfully sensitive, affecting memoir, I half expected to see wavy fumes — smelling of tobacco, crawfish, beer, rain — rising from the book itself.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

LA novelist Laura Warrell on the music and heartbreak that inspired her debut

LOS ANGELES -- After years of being heartbroken and disappointed by musicians, Laura Warrell finally added them, alongside bartenders and skateboarders, to her list of "Off Limits Men."

Los Angeles Times · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'Acceptance,' by Emi Nietfeld

At 17, Minneapolis native Emi Nietfeld won a prestigious national writing award and told a Twin Cities newspaper reporter that she wanted to write a memoir. Thirteen years later, "Acceptance" has been published, and it's extraordinary.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Review: 'The House of Fortune,' by Jessie Burton

"The House of Fortune," Jessie Burton's fourth novel for adults, is that rare, double-headed beast. It is a sequel to the author's first book, "The Miniaturist" (2014), an acclaimed work of historical fiction which enchanted legions of readers. But it is also a standalone novel that can be enjoyed by…

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

The ‘Maya Angelou of Iraq,’ a refugee living in South Jersey, publishes a powerful memoir

Writer Faleeha Hassan had a strange dream.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Aug 31, 2022