You’d think that after so many run-ins with rejection, I’d have grown a thicker skin by now.
In the beginning, every fledgling writer falls madly in love with his work. How could a reader not swoon over this turn of phrase or that plot twist? Never mind gratuitous clichés, the young writer rushes into a story [...]

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Potsdam, Germany - The first stage adaptation of The Satanic Verses, the controversial novel by Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, won applause from a German audience at its premiere under police guard Sunday near Berlin. The adaptation in German digested Rushdie’s 700-page, 1988 book to a four-hour matinee at the Hans Otto Theatre, known by the [...]

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The Vermont Civil War Hemlocks bring the past alive through living history presentations, and now the organization is doing the same for the memories of 48 valiant soldiers.
The group has published a book titled “Everlasting Glory” that tells the story of each of the Vermonters who won the Medal of Honor in the Civil War, [...]

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Midnight March 4 is the “bewitching hour” for Stephen King fans who read his Dark Tower series like gospel.
Marvel will release the first 48-page issue of his second graphic-novel series, “Dark Tower: The Long Road Home,” at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 5. The Comic Store, 28 McGovern Ave., will be open for business at 9:30 [...]

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It’s another slab of comics, courtesy of our not-sinister-at-all friends at Previews. It has Indy on the cover - what’s not to love? So let’s check it out!
You’ll notice that, for the second month in a row, there’s no order form in this issue. This is, I think, the third time in [...]

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Moguls meet Medicis in Salman Rushdie’s first venture into historical romance, The Enchantress of Florence. When its story opens, a handsome young Florentine with flowing golden hair is riding towards Fatehpur Sikri, the newly built victory capital of the emperor Akbar. He bears with him a dramatic secret only to be disclosed to the Mogul [...]

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Lisa Jackson had no great plans to be a writer. She was a Molalla kid who went to Oregon State for a couple of years as an English major before dropping out, working in a bank, and then getting married and having a couple of kids.
She was working as a baby sitter when her sister, [...]

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An original musical premiering at the University of Redlands is a sendup of academia and performance art spiced up with a little modern romance. “Love U. The Grad School Musical” is a collaboration that spans not only two schools of higher education but two countries.
“We are creating a very entertaining work that has a real [...]

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The summer of 2008 changed Edwina Emily Blair’s life completely. A small town librarian, she loved her predictable lifestyle. But her European-born stepsister Cecelia had other plans. As the two of them were about to board a plane for Scotland, Cecelia was suddenly called away to Italy. Edwina found herself alone in Edinburgh, tired, hungry, [...]

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Good luck trying to classify Mary Doria Russell’s books, and if you can, please let your local bookseller know Free Novel.
Perhaps no current author has produced such a diverse body of work in such a short period of time. This distinction has led Russell to reflexively refer to herself as, ahem, a “literary genre slut.” [...]

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