![]() ![]() I imagine you know the satisfaction that having just completed a novel or even a short story brings, but half an hour (if that) after finishing a first draft I’ll be pondering what to write next. Admittedly that’s not the case when I have to get up early to travel, but otherwise it’s every day, Christmas and my birthday too. For a long time, and increasingly now, I grow frustrated if a day goes by when I’m not either writing or working on what I’ll write next or rereading a draft as a preparation to rewriting it. Ramsey Campbell: It’s a compulsion, Simon. What do you attribute this productivity to? Simon Bestwick: You’ve had, to date, an enviably productive career: thirty-one novels (thirty-five including your film novelisations of Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula’s Daughter and The Wolfman), five novellas, fifteen story collections and now a book of limericks, along with fourteen anthologies as editor and countless individual short stories and non-fiction articles. Author of such classics as The Parasite, The Influence, The Face That Must Die, Ancient Images, and more recently, Ghosts Know, Holes for Faces, The Booking, and the forthcoming The Searching Dead, Campbell has won more awards for his writing than any other living horror writer. Simon Bestwick recently chatted with the legendary British horror writer, Ramsey Campbell. ![]()
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Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. ![]() He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Between 15 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. Scholars believe that he died on his fifty-second birthday, coinciding with St George’s Day.Īt the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). ![]() William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiny Cooper was entirely John's invention, from his first chapter of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Whose idea was he, originally? And how did you decide to do a real version of Hold Me Closer? "But my high school years would have been much more colorful and much more musical if he'd been around." In an email conversation, Levithan told me that as a teenager, he probably wouldn't have had the stamina to keep up with Tiny. Now, Levithan has given Tiny his own starring role in Hold Me Closer, a fully realized version of that magnum opus. In Will Grayson - co-written by John Green and David Levithan - Tiny used those 18 ex-boyfriends as fodder for a musical version of his life. Readers met the flamboyant high school football player and would-be musical impresario as a side character in the 2010 novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson and fell in love - about as quickly as Tiny did with each of his 18 exes. Tiny Cooper is your new boyfriend (well, not mine, he doesn't swing that way). Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hold Me Closer Subtitle The Tiny Cooper Story Author David Levithan ![]() ![]() ![]() When she saw the ocean for the first time, Lydia spoke intelligibly for the first time in years. They met again later at the naval yard, and Dexter agreed to drive Anna and her younger disabled sister Lydia to the beach. Sensing that Dexter might know something about what happened to her father, Anna introduced herself to him as Anna Feeney, rather than Kerrigan. He and Anna met at one of his nightclubs, Moonshine, one evening, and although Anna remembered him from the trip with her father when she was a girl, Dexter did not recognize her. Dexter, we learn, was a boss in an organized criminal syndicate and owned a substantial number of nightclubs. Her father had disappeared without a trace five years earlier. With so many American men fighting overseas, Anna was among the first wave of women to hold jobs at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Eleven-year-old Anna Kerrigan accompanied her father, a union lackey named Eddie Kerrigan, to a business meeting at the Manhattan Beach home of a man named Dexter Styles - a meeting that proved to be fateful for all three characters.Įight years later, World War II was on. The novel opens in New York City in 1934, five years after the American stock market crash. ![]() ![]() The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Egan, Jennifer. ![]() ![]() hold within the realm of animation in the 2020s. With the world of cartoons changing so dramatically, we decided it was time to update our list of the top 50 cartoon characters of all time, taking into account the cultural influence, relatability, and relevance these animated humans, animals, vegetables, etc. ![]() Western cartoons have never been as varied as they are now, and I believe they have the potential to reach the same cultural status anime took decades ago in Japan. ![]() Many employ wittier humor, more complex characters and deeper stories to engage those of any age, while even more target teens or adults as their prime audience, giving them the ability to tell relatable, powerful and hilarious stories within the realm of animation. No longer are cartoons something only for children to enjoy on Saturday mornings. Traditional cable networks have created new and exciting characters and worlds in animation, while streaming platforms have allowed even more creators to make the animated shows they want to make. Sure, new episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and SpongeBob Squarepants are churned out each year like clockwork, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg. Cartoons have changed a lot in the decade since Paste originally published this list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wrongly titled (a title that probably prevents many people from seeing this little miracle of a film) and incorrectly billed as a comedy (which is most certainly not), DIRTY FILTH LOVE is one of those films that slipped by us all without a theatrical release but now is thankfully available on DVD. Beginning with a smart script by Jeff Pope and Ian Puleston-Davies (the latter a fine actor who happens to be afflicted with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and under the inordinately delicate direction of Adrian Shergold, DIRTY FILTHY LOVE is one of the more sensitive examinations of two challenges that affect the lives of many people throughout the world: Tourette's Syndrome (complete with tics and uncontrollable inappropriate outbursts of foul language, noises, shouts), and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (lives complicated by the need for order imposed by the patient's mind as a series of repeated behaviors that protect the person from the terror of living in a chaotic world). ![]() ![]() “This is the scariest thing in the world to authors and illustrators: a blank sheet of paper,” Barnett said, as students laughed. ![]() Barnett also revealed something he warned the students would be scary. ![]() Head O’ Meadow library media specialist Beth Murphy arranged the event.ĭuring the virtual visit, Barnett shared some secrets about what being an author is like, and he read his book Triangle. He noted his books included the Brixton Brothers series the Terrible Two series Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem Oh No!, Or, How My Science Project Destroyed the World and Chloe and the Lion. I have written 50 books that are out,” Barnett said near the start of the event. The author, at his home in California, and Head O’ Meadow classrooms were connected, along with students at home, by video. ![]() Head O’ Meadow Elementary School students visited virtually with author Mac Barnett on March 30. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one man's face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel's survival mechanism. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh-even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center-that carried him through his ordeal. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his knife-like edge, and most of all, his passion toentertain. The sitcom was dumped and the fire of his white-hot career started to go out. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately. ![]() A recipient of the celebration of Life Award from the National Lymphoma Society, Mr. He'd won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Robert Schimmel Robert Schimmel, named one of Comedy Centrals 100 greatest Comics, had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs, a Fox pilot, and consistently sold-out club dates. Robert Schimmel, named one of Comedy Centrals 100 greatest Comics, had Showtime and HBO specials, bestselling CDs, a Fox pilot, and consistently sold-out club dates. In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. ![]() ![]() She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. ![]() Morris has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. Brown, Locus, is quoted on the Baen Books reissues of the series as saying, “Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure.” According to original publisher Bantam Books, the Silistra quartet had over four million copies in print when the fourth volume, The Carnelian Throne was published. Morris, was High Couch of Silistra, the first in a quartet of character-driven novels with a female protagonist. Janet’s bio: Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She is a very busy lady and the Library of Erana is honoured that she has found time to be interviewed. ![]() ![]() Today I am delighted to welcome Janet Morris, author of some of the best heroic fantasy and historical fiction around. ![]() |