MY BOOK, THE MOVIE

They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. --Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Gerald Elias's "Playing with Fire"

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A graduate of Yale, Gerald Elias has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony since 1988, Adjun...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Eleni N. Gage's "The Ladies of Managua"

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Eleni N. Gage 's books include the travel memoir North of Ithaka , which describes her experience living in Lia, the small Greek village...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Erik Storey's "Nothing Short of Dying"

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Erik Storey is a former ranch hand, wilderness guide, dogsled musher, and hunter. He spent his childhood summers on his great-grandfather’...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

David Haven Blake's "Liking Ike"

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David Blake has written extensively on the history of fame. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of Celebrity (Yale, 2006) an...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Jeff Somers's "The Stringer"

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Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers , and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stori...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Barry Hankins's "Woodrow Wilson"

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Barry Hankins is Professor of History at Baylor University, as well as a Resident Scholar with the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Kodi Scheer's "Midair"

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Kodi Scheer teaches writing at the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. She was awarded the Dzanc Prize for Excellence in Lite...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Tom Bullough's "Addlands"

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Tom Bullough grew up on a hill farm in Wales, where he still lives. He has worked as a sawmiller, a music promotor in Zimbabwe, a tractor...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

Danny Johnson's "The Last Road Home"

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Danny Johnson 's writing follows the tradition of Southern authors whose characters most often represent the disenfranchised in society,...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Yoav Alon's "The Shaykh of Shaykhs"

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Yoav Alon is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialis...
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