Notes of a Defeatist

From Variety.com:

Phoenix, De Luca chomp on ‘Dead’ Huston’s novel the first of a five-book series

By MICHAEL FLEMING



Phoenix Pictures and Mike De Luca Prods. will team for a feature adaptation of the Charlie Huston vampire novel “Already Dead.” Scott Rosenberg will write the script.De Luca will produce with Phoenix’s David Thwaites and Brad Fischer. Alissa Phillips [...]

[Read more →]

October 5th,2006, the first officially sanctioned boxing match between two published authors was thrown down. Friend of this site, Craig Davidson (author of The Fighter, Rust and Bone) challenged any writer to meet him in the ring. He was met by Michael Knox, author of Play out the Match. Produced by Ian Daffern. Edited by [...]

[Read more →]

A lost world, forgery, Norse mythology, ninjas, a celebration and a murder mystery are all apart of Dustin Long’s first novel Icelander, which was published by McSweeneys earlier this year. It has been aptly called “A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie; a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49; The [...]

[Read more →]

Pretty much any gift giving occassion, finds a least a few new books for me to consume. When I was about eleven or twelve, armloads of wrapped Stephen King paperbacks through off the balance of having read everything on my bookshelf. Fifteen years later, any chances of catching up on my reading would involve mandatory [...]

[Read more →]