Across five published novels, Robert Jackson Bennett has made it a point to never write the same book twice. His debut, Mr. Shivers, won the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best horror novel. A year later, The Company Man picked up the Philip K. Dick Award for best sci-fi novel and the Edgar Award for […]
What we talk about when we talk about Old Hollywood: classic movies, glamorous movie stars, true crime, lush romance, bitter disillusionment, and of course a dash of noir, all tucked away behind Los Angeles’s seemingly perfect, sun-shiny facade. Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West, What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg, and Play it as […]
Over here at the Book Blog, our main passion is books—but you know we also love us some movies. Especially when those movies are based on books! When done well, they’re magical visualizations of the lovely stories we treasure in our heads and hearts. When done poorly, we get to go to town on them […]
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for example, four of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations of books—The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips (A Captain’s Duty), and Philomena (The Lost Child of Philomena Lee). Of course, it […]
We all have a lot to be grateful for in our lives. But writers (and readers, to be honest), in particular, often owe a debt to a particular book—one that shaped them, as a reader, as writer, as a human being. So this Thanksgiving, BN Teen asked 14 of your favorite authors to share the […]