EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Alibar, the playwright and screenwriter who broke out with the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Beasts of the Wild South in 2012, signed with CAA for representation. The acclaimed film, based on Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and delicious, told the story of Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), a six-year-oldRead More →
PJ O’Rourke, the conservative satirist and political commentator who was unafraid to confuse Democrats and Republicans in bestselling books like “Parliament of Whores”, in articles for a wide range of magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio talk shows, died Tuesday at his home in Sharon, NH He wasRead More →
WASHINGTON- US political satirist PJ O’Rourke, who skewered both Democrats and fellow Republicans in barbed wire, including “Republican Party Reptile”, has died at 74, friends and employers of the organization said on Tuesday. writer. O’Rourke also wrote about his experiences in various countries and conflict zones around the world asRead More →
(Corrects typographical error in paragraph 8) By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – PJ O’Rourke, an American journalist, political satirist and best-selling author who rose to prominence as editor of the now-defunct comedy magazine National Lampoon, has died aged 74 years. Grove Atlantic, a New York-based publisher of his books, confirmed heRead More →
Breadcrumb Links World News Rise to fame as editor of the now-defunct National Lampoon comedy magazine Author of the article: Publication date : February 15, 2022 • February 16, 2022 • 1 minute read • Join the conversation PJ O’Rourke is seen in September 2001. Reuters Content of the articleRead More →
MONIQUE HOOPER [email protected] Editor’s note: This performance has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. on November 29 due to inclement weather. Tickets already purchased will then be honoured. Fran Lebowitz has done billions of interviews, by her count. So when she sat down to talk to What’s Up!, our firstRead More →
Designer jerry craftthe mid-level graphic novel, new child, was released in 2019 and last year became the first graphic novel to receive the John Newbery Medal as “the most distinguished American children’s book published in the previous year”. So it’s no surprise that Universal Pictures acquired the rights to newRead More →
[ad_1] Screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan explained why he couldn’t use Boba Fett’s character in the 2018 Star wars anthology film Solo: A Star Wars Story. Kasdan is one of two writers credited on Solo, the other being his father, Lawrence Kasdan, who also co-wrote Star wars movies like The Empire StrikesRead More →
[ad_1] Joan Didion, the journalist, novelist and screenwriter of films like 1976’s “A Star Is Born” died Thursday at her Manhattan home at the age of 87. The New York Times reported that the cause was Parkinson’s disease. Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934. The fifth generation Californian foundRead More →
[ad_1] Anne Rice, a gothic novelist who helped resurrect the vampire story with dark and alluring bestsellers such as Interview with the vampire, who was adapted into a blockbuster film and used the popular blood-sucking creature as a means to examine mortality, sexuality and life on the fringes, has diedRead More →
[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer and musician S. Craig Zahler, Deadline has learned. “We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and to work with Craig. There is a Zahler on the planet. And that’s for good reason. It’s a real multi-hyphen. AndRead More →
[ad_1] Noah Gordon, an American author who was virtually unknown at home but whose novels on Jewish history, medicine and identity turned him into a literary luminary abroad, died Monday at his home in Dedham, Mass. He was 95 years old. His death was confirmed by his wife, Lorraine Gordon.Read More →
[ad_1] “Previously my tours were 15-20 cities, but because of Covid it’s like five or six,†a masked Gary Shteyngart told a small but enthusiastic crowd of fans at BookShop West Portal in San Francisco on the 11th. November. “I wish I could do all the schmear. The New York-basedRead More →
[ad_1] Jonathan Reynolds, a playwright and screenwriter whose film credit streak in the 1980s included comedies Micki & Maude, change the channel, my stepmother is an alien and the famous flop leonardo part 6, died on October 27 of organ failure at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, NJ. He wasRead More →
[ad_1] Death: October 26, 2021. DEATH Sahl, who died at the age of 94, was a revolutionary American stand-up comedian, who brought political satire and spontaneity to a 1950s circuit then dominated by stepmom gags and good smut. Marlet. Drawing his topical routines from the newspapers he brought with himRead More →
[ad_1] Lopez’s take on “The Bodyguard†will follow a promising artist rather than an established pop star. Image via Warner Bros. The classic from the early 90s The bodyguard, featuring Whitney houston and Kevin costner, will receive a remake from one of the entertainment industry’s most prestigious playwrights. Matthieu lopezRead More →
[ad_1] Donald Newlove, a recovered alcoholic who wrote acclaimed and brutally sentimental novels and a memoir, all with a common theme – drunkenness – as well as cheeky primer on reading and writing, died August 17 in Bethesda , in Maryland. He was 93 years old. The cause was complicationsRead More →
[ad_1] TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Lawrence Osborne was born and raised in the UK, but has lived in the US, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco, France, Poland and Italy. He has filed reports in many other countries as a correspondent for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, Vogue andRead More →
[ad_1] There is a new accolade given to the Monroeville Literary Festival, named after the childhood friend of Harper Lee, who also grew up to be a writer. Allen Wier, who taught creative writing at the University of Alabama from 1980 to 1994, was recently announced as the sixth recipientRead More →
[ad_1] Alison Lurie was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who combined biting wit and boundless empathy to narrate the lives of women in search of self-awareness and personal growth while going about the business of daily living. In addition to having written 11 works of fiction, Lurie was an essayist andRead More →
[ad_1] Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral love and college stories included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the Americans Abroad comedy “Foreign Affairs,” died Thursday at the age of 94. Lurie, professor emeritus at Cornell University, has died of natural causes, accordingRead More →
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[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) – Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral love and college stories have included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the Americans Abroad comedy “Foreign Affairs â€, died Thursday at age 94. Lurie, professor emeritus at Cornell University, has diedRead More →
[ad_1] Joshua Bodwell discovered André Dubus’ extraordinary prose in his youth, and therein lies a short story. Twenty years ago, when he was only 23, Joshua Bodwell had a meeting that would change his life. With a book. Or, more precisely, with a writer. Two decades later, Bodwell still remembersRead More →
[ad_1] Alice Munro in 2002. (AP / Paul Hawthorne) This morning, Alice Munro became the first Canadian author and the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Good timing: Munro also said The New York Times this summer she is finished with writing altogether.) In its announcement, theRead More →