I remember author Charlaine Harris mentioning on her website that Alan Ball, the man responsible for the TV show Six Feet Under was going to make a HBO series based on her Sookie Stackhouse novels. That was almost 2 years ago! But it looks like it's finally going to happen. It not only has a name... True Blood but it also has a leading lady. Anna ( Read more... )

LONDON (AFP) - Irish author John Banville beat higher profile favourites Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith to become the surprise winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for fiction ( Read more... )

From: Southern Voice

A hot new remake of Wilde’s Dorian Gray

Filled with more bitchy one-liners than a Mommie Dearest marathon, OSCAR WILDE's The Picture of Dorian Gray has long been a gay favorite. Thanks to out British director DUNCAN ROY the movie is getting a steamy new remake, which was just completed with the story set in New York City ( Read more... )

Something from this article about the upcoming Fall TV season caught my eye...

Kitchen Confidential, a comedy based on chef Anthony Bourdain's best-selling autobiography and starring Alias' Bradley Cooper.The article says its a "pilot with good buzz", but from what I've read elsewhere, it has been picked up and will be airing on FOX in the Fall. I ( Read more... )

The 89th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced on 4/4. (New York Times)

FICTION:
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

GENERAL NONFICTION:
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

BIOGRAPHY:
De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan

HISTORY:
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

POETRY:
Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser

LONDON (Reuters) - American author and journalist Tom Wolfe has won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades -- the British prize for bad sex in fiction ( Read more... )

Some interesting news about some films being made from well known books...

( Movie Ordered to Axe Religious References )

And the winners are...
Ficition: The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Nonfiction: Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle
Poetry: Door in the Mountain by Jean Valentine
Young People's Literature: Godless by Pete Hautman

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