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Chuck Palahniuk Beautiful You Review

 

Though they’re stylistically dissimilar, I’ve long thought that Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Doomed) was kind of like fellow writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Breakfast Of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five) in that both had distinctive and unique writing styles that made both of their writings great reading regardless of what they wrote about.

But it’s hard not to think that Vonnegut wouldn’t have written a book as explicit and sexually subversive as Palahniuk’s new novel, Beautiful You (Doubleday: hardcover, digital).

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Soul Shift Author Candace Beck Moesta

As a journalist (and I use that term loosely), I always use my skeptical eye when reading a press release that declares a book is one thing or the other. But in talking to Candace Beck Moesta about her debut fantasy novel Soul Shift, it seems the press release was spot on when it say the book is “Fantasy fiction for the anime enthusiast.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Damascus Cover” Author Howard Kaplan

 

Nearly forty years after it was first published, Howard Kaplan’s spy novel The Damascus Cover is making a comeback. Not only is a new edition coming to both bookshelves and eReaders, but a movie adaptation that stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Abigail Spenser, and Jurgen Prochnow is slated for next year.

But in talking to Kaplan about both, it becomes clear that his tale of espionage hasn’t aged a day.

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Exclusive Interview: “City Of Stairs” Author Robert Jackson Bennett

 

Robert Jackson Bennett’s new novel City Of Stairs is not an easy read. Not because he uses big words or his grammar is atrocious, it’s because this fantasy novel isn’t easy to classify. It’s a spy novel with a murder mystery, and it doesn’t have a clear enemy, but instead shows both sides as having flaws. But in talking to Mr. Bennett, not being easy this is exactly how he likes it.

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Edge Of Tomorrow Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, And Digital Announced

Warner Home Video have announced that the sci-fi movie Edge Of Tomorrow will be released as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, as a 3D Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, on DVD, and digitally on October 7th.

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Exclusive Interview: Unrequited Author Christy Heron

We’ve all loved someone who didn’t love us back. And no, I’m not talking about Chewbacca. I’m talking about someone we actually know, someone we’d like to know better but they just don’t feel the same way. Which is why we’ll probably all find things in Christy Heron’s new novel Unrequited (which is available both physically and digitally) that we can relate to. With the book coming to print this week, I spoke to Heron about where she got the idea for this book, what influences the way she writes, and why she thinks that while it may appeal more to women than men, men might like it, too.

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Exclusive Interview: “Headcase” Author Marc Rosenberg

 

A dark and stormy night. A double-crossing jerk. Booze, bullets, and babes. These are the tenets of hardboiled crime novels, and they, like the heroes of such books, still pack a punch. But after talking to author Marc Rosenberg about his own crime drama Headcase (paperback, Kindle), while he may be familiar with the crime classics, he tried to write a whole new caper.

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75 Years Of Marvel Taschen Art Book Announced

Marvel Comics and Taschen have announced that 75 Years Of Marvel: From The Golden Age To The Silver Screen — a hardcover art book that looks back at Marvel’s comics, movies, and history — will be released this fall.

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Manga Versions Of Pride & Prejudice And Les Miserables Announced

UDON and Morpheus Publishing Limited have announced that they will publish manga versions of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables on August 27th. Both books will be available in softcover, hardcover, and digitally.