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TRUE BLOOD BOOK RELEASED BY BENBELLA
Waiting Sucks as the True Blood marketeers will have it, but you can quench your thirst for more TB with ‘A Taste of True Blood’, a collection of essays on the show from the Smart Pop imprint of Benbella Books, released June 29th.
Taking an in depth look at the series, this book is a must for all afficionados and contains essays from fans and pro-writers alike. A detailed deconstruction of the show’s memorable opening credits will point out some things that may have been delivered directly into your brain through subliminal messaging…
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THINKING ABOUT DYSTOPIAN FUTURES
Today, in 1949, George Orwell’s novel 1984 was published. He would die seven months later, after suffering all sorts of medical indignities–somehow, in all my years of English major undergraduate and graduate study, I never knew this fact. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac site describes the final part of the writing process this way: “He wrote from bed, and by longhand when his typewriter was taken away from him in the hospital. He went through an intense drug treatment in the hopes of curing his TB, which caused him mouth blisters, throat ulcers that made it hard to swallow, rashes, and flaking skin, and his hair and nails fell out. He was losing weight, had fevers, and his right arm had to be put in a cast, but he kept writing with his left. Under pressure from his publisher, he finally finished the book by the end of the year, and had to retype the messy manuscript himself.”
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SUZANNE COLLINS ‘THE HUNGER GAMES’ REVIEW
Rebecca Stead chose to set her children’s novel “When You Reach Me”—winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal—in nineteen-seventies New York partly because that’s where she grew up, but also, as she told one interviewer, because she wanted “to show a world of kids with a great deal of autonomy.” Her characters, middle-class middle-school students, routinely walk around the Upper West Side by themselves, a rare freedom in today’s city, despite a significant drop in New York’s crime rate since Stead’s footloose youth. The world of our hovered-over teens and preteens may be safer, but it’s also less conducive to adventure, and therefore to adventure stories
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The ‘Taste of True Blood’ book sounds like a perfect accompaniment to the show. Will you be getting the book?
Have you read The Hunger Games? Do you agree with the review?
