Stephen King and his son Joe Hill will release their first graphic work as a duo next week. Road Rage, published by IDW as a comic-book series will be available in comic shops next Wednesday. The book follows The Tribe, a gang of grungy, infighting motorcycle outlaws who run afoul of a relentless homicidal trucker. The series will also feature an adaptation of the work Throttle was based on, Richard Matheson's story Duel. Read more HERE .
Today is the last of the warm days at least through the weekend. The weatherman called the weekend temperature an Arctic blast, but right now the temperatures are predicted to be in the low 202s with some rain turning to snow and accumulating as many as 3 inches. I laughed when I reread this and saw I had written "as many" as 3 inches. That's only a bit more than a dusting in New England or it used to be. This year we all seem to have refined our definition of Arctic and cold and snow storms. Right now it [...]
"That's probably the hardest I've worked on any project," says Avi Spivak , the illustrator behind Norton Records ' recent issue of Kicksville Confidential . And if you've seen Kicksville , released this past October, you'll understand what he means by "hard work" -- the Brooklyn-based artist's painstaking renderings of Norton stars are as detailed as they are funny, and they're clearly the toil of someone with a deep interest in u-ground comics and gutsy r'n'r alike. In Spivak's enthusiastic scrawl -- part Kaz, part MAD , part G. Panter, part [...]
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Over the months I've written about some difficult and disturbing books. Duncan McLean's 'Bunker Man' immediately springs to mind, but perhaps Toni Davidson's 1999 debut novel 'Scar Culture' unsettles more than any other Scottish novel I have read. It's never as salacious as McLean's novel often becomes, but like 'Bunker Man' it deals with abuse; [...]
Watchmen is a staggering piece of work; every time I pull it off the shelf--usually when I'm trying to fact-check some detail while writing an iconoclastic take-down of its legacy--I end up getting sucked back in, twelve years old and...
Stewart O'Nan has become a favorite author in the Muruch household. I (Vic) first fell for his writing in 1994 when his stark and mesmerizing debut novel, Snow Angels, was released, and Brendan loves O'Nan's 2007 novel Last Night at the Lobster enough to re-read it every winter. We both recently read (and loved) O'Nan's [...]
A surprisingly quiet month at our local B&N's, especially the USQ mothership. Here are some February 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another. Barnes & Noble New York 02/02 Mike Doughty: The Book of Drugs A Memoir (Tri) 02/06 Tom Santopietro: The Godfather Effect (86th & Lex) 02/07 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What Color Is My World? (Tri) 02/07 Elaine Hall: Seven Keys to Unlock Autism (86th & Lex) 02/14 Dave Isay: All There Is Love Stories from StoryCorps (82nd & Bway) [...]
Explorers of Tomorrow is the title of the first book project I completed at the Academy of Art University in Spring 2009. Up to this point our projects consisted of posters and small printed materials, so this was the first time we were pushed to develop a consistent visual language and extend it across multiple pages. The assignment was to take a subject of interest, research its future 10 years from the present, and display our findings in a book. Growing up, one of my favorite books was Automobiles of the Future by Irwin Stambler. [...]
Seven Stories by acclaimed author Brian James Freeman is only available on Amazon.com and is now FREE for everyone this week only at this special link: http://amzn.to/SevenStories About the Stories: Walking With the Ghosts of Pier 13: A grueling summer of horror is finally winding down, and Jeremy is one of the wandering survivors who can't come to grips with the acts of terror that have been ripping his nation apart. His destination today is Pier 13, [...]
Here's the playlist from today's My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can listen right now, or you can also stay up late and catch the show again at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid M.I.A. - Bad Girls [...]
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My review of Norumbega Park by Anthony Giardina ran today in the Boston Globe It tells the story about a family in suburban Massachusetts who... well, they don't do a whole lot. There's angst, and plenty of sexual anxiety (though very little consummation). At first, the story seems to be about the father, Richie Palumbo, moving his family to an idyllic, New England small town in the hopes that they would become part of a more refined segment of society. It's set up to be about the hopes he's [...]
Every cook knows olive oil is essential. For Tom Mueller, it's the lifeblood of Western Civilization. In Extra Virginity , his lively, earnest, exhaustive, and sometime exhausting debut, Mueller discovers oil not only as food, but as fuel, lubricant, medicine, skin care, perfume, aphrodisiac, religious symbol, and way of life. In the words of one aficionado, true extra virgin olive oil is the stuff that "makes you get down on your knees and say, 'Fuck'." As Extra Virginity explains, all olive oils are not equal. Each country has its own varieties, such as biancolilla [...]
What a terrific idea: on one night, people around the world go around giving books to strangers: Become a Giver for World Book Night 2012 | DIESEL, A Bookstore . World Book Night 2012! The idea is that on one night, throughout America, 1 million books will be given away by hand by tens of thousands of people. Authors and publishers have enthusiastically agreed to print over 30 thousand copies of 30 different titles, to be delivered to pick-up locations throughout the [...]
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