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Written by Jeremy Stern
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Inspiration for Big-Time B Movies is A-list Reading With waves of summer movies, such as Spider-Man 3 and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and television series such as NBC’s Heroes establishing the visual entertainment horizon, it would be easy to dismiss contemporary comic books as fluff material akin to their media-extravaganza cousins. After all, the major comic book publishers are eager to cash-in on their newfound Hollywood popularity in a movie-to-comic conversion that is currently taking place. Aspects of the Spider-Man movie are incorporated into the regular continuity of the Spider-Man comics, despite the series of movies having little to do with over 40 years of month-to-month continuity established in the comic series. |
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Written by Erin Andrews
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Devilishly Juicy Forbidden love, high drama and everlasting friendship are just a few of the themes that surface in Timothy Schaffert's "Devils in the Sugar Shop." With a different tone from his last novel, "The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God," 'Devils' is a comedic novel following several characters, varying in age from sixteen to sixty, in their drama-filled lives in downtown Omaha. |
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Written by Brian Grummert
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Wunderkind Takes on Speculative Noir Michael Chabon walked through the narrow aisles of Book Soup in West Hollywood to read from his latest novel, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. He appeared a little slumped shouldered in the way of a teenager and wore a shirt with opulent, glaring colors that matched the red-orange and aqua dust jacket of the novel. His boyish face was topped with lightly salted, curling hair cut in the style of the Doomsday-era Superman. His steady gaze on the pages was interrupted to indicate references to The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Street, and L.L. Zamenhof, a speaker of Yiddish and the creator of Esperanto. Zamenhof’s name is used for the seedy hotel and home of Detective Meyer Landsman who investigates the assassinated body of mutual resident Menashe Shpilman in the first pages. Landsman is a man with a notable career, astute recollection, and a mind for detail. He is also recently divorced amid the loss of a child who was stillborn, remarried to a shot glass emblazoned with the 1977 World’s Fair, and far on his way to running afoul of his job, friends, and family. |
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