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Mar 20 2007: "300", the movie about the Battle of Thermopylae, based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, grossed almost $32 million over the weekend, bringing its revenues to $127 in its first 10 days. Described by one BookBrowse member as an "okay movie if you like lots of violence ...
Mar 19 2007: "The Year of Magical Thinking", adapted by Joan Didion from her bestselling memoir, is already playing at the Booth Theatre, New York, but will officially open on March 29th. Vanessa Redgrave stars in the 95 minute show with no intermission, directed by David Hare ("...
Mar 13 2007: The Bookseller, Britain's leading publishing magazine, has revealed its shortlist for the 29th Annual Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. The six titles are:
Mar 12 2007: The New York Times reports that as electronic resources increasingly become the main tool for gathering information by both amateur researches and serious scholars (sometimes the only tool), items left behind in non-digital form are in danger of disappearing from the ...
Mar 10 2007: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a new 'golden age of young adult literature' has been declared.
"Kids are buying books in quantities we've never seen before," said Booklist magazine critic Michael Cart, a leading authority on young adult literature. "And ...
Mar 09 2007: "The Namesake", based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of the same name, opens in movie theaters today. The critics' rating at rottentomatoes.com is 89%, ranking it as "cream of the crop". The film critic for the Wall Street Journal says, "This immensely pleasurable film is . ...
Mar 09 2007: The National Book Critics Circle awards were announced last night, the
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Mar 08 2007: The shortlists for the Galaxy British Book Awards, (known as the "Nibbies" in the trade, and billed to the public as "the Oscars of the book trade") have been announced. With about 10 different prizes sponsored primarily by large retailers, such as Readers Digest, ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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