A daughter discovers her aging alcoholic mother has become a hoarder. Next door, a nephew tries to convince his elderly aunt to move into an assisted living facility. These are the seemingly innocuous elements which begin Hallie Ephron's novel, There ... Continue reading ’
Jennifer E. Smith's novel, This Is What Happy Looks Like, is a sweet little (well, big) story about two teenagers who randomly connect online, fall in love and then meet in person. The twist, which is revealed at the beginning, ... Continue reading ’
Music by NOVEL performing Pretty Scars. (C) 2013 Lost Poet Music Novel - Pretty Scars Directed By Angie Romasanta Starring April Clark Co-Directed By Novel & April Clark Music By Novel & Justin Kahler SHE GOT HER RED DRESS ON WITH A BODY THAT CAN KILL IT/ BABY YOU SO HIGH I SEE YOU WALKING ON THE CEILING/ I KNOW YOU TRYNA HIDE THE PAIN CAUSE YOU THE MUTHAF***IN REALIST/ GIRL I NEVER SEEN THE SCARRED [...]
I've waited years for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby to be released. Not only am I a longtime fan of Luhrmann's flamboyant directorial style, but F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels of all time. ... Continue reading ’
Stephen King’s new novel Joyland, published as a paperback original on June 4 2013, by the award-winning Hard Case Crime line from Titan Books, is released in tandem with three hardcover limited editions for collectors, two of them signed by the author. All three hardcover editions feature both a new cover painting and nine black and white interior illustrations by the legendary Robert McGinnis, the painter responsible for more than 1,000 classic book covers as well as the iconic movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the original Sean Connery James Bond movies. Joyland is the first book [...]
At first glance of this post's title, you may have thought we've lost our minds. However, we assure you that this post is completely intended! We haven't lost our minds. That we know of. We think you'll agree that music and writing go together- if those things weren't linked, you would be rifling through some list of MP32s on the net for new tracks and Music Ninja wouldn't be the success it is today. We feel that you appreciate our insight which is why we love to blend these two things together. With that [...]
All the boys swoon and die. The end. Novel announced today that they will be presenting Nina Kraviz in her debut Melbourne club show this year. That's all we have to go on for now but it's enough to get everyone weak at the knees. With the promise of a night filled with high calibre house and techno the question on everyone's lips now is when? where else? and is Ben Klock coming along? Nina Kraviz does to men what Gesaffelstein does to women, [...]
As you may have seen in today's " What's Going On? " post, Molly Ringwald is performing at 54 Below tonight (1/15, and Wednesday 1/16) . She'll be doing a cabaret set of standards, and perhaps a cover of Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from The Breakfast Club which she does on her forthcoming album Except ... Sometimes that will be out in April. Tickets are available for both night. In other John Hughes-related news, this Saturday (1/19) at Union Hall it's [...]
Guest Post By: Brendan Jami Attenberg has captured the zeitgeist in her heartbreaking and life-affirming novel, The Middlesteins. Edie Middlestein is eating herself to death and Attenberg shows us her sometimes sad life, and the ramifications of her decisions for herself and her family. Deftly hopping through time, we are situated not with the date [...]
Guest Post By: Brendan I expected When It Happens To You to be good... for Molly Ringwald, but thought that perhaps from another author it might be considered a disappointment. I was wrong. This is a remarkable work of fiction with glimpses of brilliance. The work is described as a collection of interlinked stories, but [...]
Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper is truly a page turner. It's a rather thick hardback (yes, I still read actual books!), so I was shocked to finish reading it in one weekend. Morton, author of The House at Riverton, is one of my favorite modern authors. She has a knack for writing prose that is [...]
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Stream/Buy: Novel - Under Water, Overwhelmed EP ATL singer, songwriter, rapper and producer Novel has released his latest collection of original material, the Under Water, Overwhelmed EP. Penned entirely by the artist himself, the six-track project comes heralded by reader-approved singles "Hotels & Heartbreak" and "Self Medicating" and features Amir Taron as the sole credited guest. All production, mixing and mastering comes courtesy of Justin Kahler, except on "A Song for River," which is co-produced by Novel and Alex Nahlor. iTunes: [...]
For those who fear that the withering film review is a dying art, it isn't. To wit, The New York Observer's unrelenting pan of Cloud Atlas : All you can do while you puzzle over it like a board game is try to figure out which member of the hammy all-star ensemble, unrecognizable in lurid makeup, wigs, period costumes and rubber prostheses, is playing which man—or woman—while the viewer-unfriendly screenplay squirts and splatters all over the place. Characters fade into and out of past, present and future centuries with the grace of a battering ram. [...]
Wonderland Creek is a charming, cheery little novel by Lynn Austin. Austin pays homage to Lewis Carroll by dropping her fiesty, somewhat spoiled, bookworm heroine, Alice, in a strange, Depression-era, backwoods Appalachia town called Wonderland Creek (hence the title). I first heard of the book through the review posted on the WV Book Festival Blog [...]
Long night last night. Long day today. The fucking Giants game pissed me off. I don't have much else to say right now, so here's your mix tape. I'll be back tomorrow. I'm busy watching Apocalypse Now to alleviate my myriad frustrations. It helps. RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix [...]
Apparently I'm one of the few people in American who have even read Herman Melville's seafaring classic, Moby Dick, let alone love it. A group of celebrities is trying to change that by recording and offering online a free, legal, downloadable audiobook of the novel accompanied by related artwork. Among the participants will be Stephen [...]
Oh, brother. What a weekend. I hope you've all survived (unless you haven't, in which case I'd like to offer my condolences to your family and friends). I know I did. Barely. After my exhausting run yesterday morning I had to work for 8 hours. Then I came home and popped a handful of sleeping [...]
Please go see The Words in your local cinema! It's such a refreshingly intelligent, well written drama. If nothing else, it's worth the price of admission to encourage film making of actual substance. Not to mention to see the brilliant Jeremy Irons steal every scene he's in. The film should appeal to fans of Inception [...]
Recommended Show: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 NOVELLER @ LE POISSON ROUGE 158 Bleecker St New York, NY 10012 $10, 10PM It's been a while since we've seen Noveller live; that's probably reason enough to go see her on this lazy Monday night. Wild Belle @ Le Baron The Vaccines @ Bowery Ballroom Rev Vince Anderson @ Union Pool Kristeen Young @ Bowery Electric Luke Rathborne & manicanparty @ Pianos Mobile Wash Unit, Space Clamps, & [...]
Tickets for the Os Mutantes shows at LPR went on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Junip show at LPR went on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Perfume Genius and Dusted show at LPR go on sale Monday (8/6) at 10 AM. Tickets for their MHOW show go on sale Friday, August 10 at [...]
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