Jo Nesbo–HEADHUNTERS
Note: Jo Nesbo has been nominated for many prizes for his work, and has won the Riverton Prize of 1997, the Glass Key Award for 2008, the Norwegian Booksellers Best Novel of the Year Awards for 2000...
View ArticleEduardo Sacheri–THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
Note: The film of this novel was WINNER of the Academy Award in 2010 for Best Foreign Film. The novel on which it is based has just been released in English. “As workers in the criminal justice...
View ArticleKaui Hart Hemmings–THE DESCENDANTS
“I think of our bloodline’s progression. Our missionary ancestors came to the islands and told the Hawaiians to put on some clothes, work hard, and stop hula dancing. They make some business deals on...
View ArticleJames Sallis–DRIVEN (the sequel to DRIVE)
“Those you seek are wolves. Wolves do not wish to be found, they are themselves the hunters, slipping between trees, out of eyesight, close to the ground. They survive, they thrive, on their...
View ArticlePatrick Conrad–NO SALE
Note: In 2008 this novel was WINNER of the Diamant Bullit Award for Best Thriller of the Netherlands and Belgium. “Who is this withdrawn, exhausted man sitting with atrophied decency opposite [Chief...
View ArticleLouis Malle and Patrick Modiano–LACOMBE, LUCIEN (Screenplay)
NOTE: The film of this 1974 screenplay was WINNER of the Golden Globe Best Foreign Film Award, 1975; WINNER of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Best Film Award, 1975; and WINNER of the British...
View ArticlePeter Turner–FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
“Her movements were rhythmic and slick. Her voice distinctive, lending every word a seductive, breathy lisp. Her face was instantly familiar. I remembered her from “Oklahoma!” as the funny girl who...
View ArticleChristian Kracht–THE DEAD
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize and the Swiss Book Prize in 2016. “Droll films in which [Charlie] Chaplin played a down-and-out fellow plagued by bouts of bad luck...
View ArticleLara Prescott–THE SECRETS WE KEPT
“They would call us girls, but we were not. We came to the Agency by way of Radcliffe, Vassar, Smith. We were the first daughters of our families to earn degrees. Some of us spoke Mandarin. Some...
View ArticleJerome Charyn–BIG RED: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
“I was an actress who couldn’t act, a dancer who couldn’t dance, a singer who couldn’t sing. So I went straight to Hollywood after my sophomore year at college in Kalamazoo. Still, I wasn’t much of...
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