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Is anyone at all surprised that E.L. James’ fourth book in her Fifty Shades of Grey series is getting hammered by critics? After all, a lot of ink has been spilled between here and 2011, when F...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/fifty-shades-of-bad-reviews.html
American literary legend James Salter died at home in Sag Harbor, New York, last Friday. Wikipedia described Salter as “one of the most artistic writers of modern American fiction,” adding th...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/james-salter-dead-at-90.html
Sunday was full of Tweets and Facebook posts and news items everywhere about singer Taylor Swift putting her well-shod foot down with regards to an announcement that Apple would not be paying art...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/apple-swiftly-bows-to-singers-argument.html
This one is making the rounds again, so let’s have another poke. I mean we love lists, right? But since the article is pretty much without qualification or meaningful explanation, it’s tempti...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2014/12/top-books-we-dont-finish.html
Want to buy an erotic e-book? If you’re in Germany, you’ll have to wait until after 10 PM. Good-E-Reader has the story: The German Publishers & Booksellers Association have mandated that ...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/germans-wait-until-late-for-erotic-e.html
Author-turned-TV-guys David Simon (Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets) and George Pelecanos (The Double, Shoedog) are preparing to embark on a dark journey with their old friend HBO (The Wir...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/pelecanos-and-simon-turn-to-porn.html
Whatever else Kung Fu Panda III has, it’s got some serious pedigree. Coming January 29, 2016, it’s being produced by DreamWorks Animation and Oriental DreamWorks for distribution by 20th Cent...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/kung-fu-panda-iii-teaser-trailer.html
Somewhere out there, it’s possible that Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey are having newly layered encounters that most people have not read yet. But police in North Kent, England say they do...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-fifty-shades-novel-not-stolen-say.html
When David, John and Susanne are orphaned, they end up in the hands of their cruel uncle. The boys decide to run away, promising to return for their little sister. Unfortunately they have no idea...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/this-just-in-nobodys-children-by-hana.html
A television series based on Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel, American Gods, has been given the greenlight for Starz television. Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Michael Green (The River, Heroes) are writi...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/gaimans-american-gods-head-to-tv.html
With a mystique almost as great as anything Orson Welles ever worked on, Terry Gilliam has a seemingly cursed real holy grail of a film that now may finally get to be made. From Film Buzz/Uproxx:...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/terry-gilliams-real-life-holy-grail.html
This time of year, barbecue books tend to show up in anxious clumps. Summer is coming, sure. But so is Father’s Day and that means potential gift giving because the cliche is based on reality: ...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/cookbooks-grilling-with-house-of-q-by.html
As we move toward the debut of season two of True Detective, everyone is asking the same question: can Nic Pizzolatto do it again? Undeniably, he had the right formula in the first season. The wo...
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Is Edgar Allan Poe the reason the board game Scrabble was invented? According to Mental Floss, it was! More than 150 million Scrabble games have been sold since Alfred Butts invented it in 1938. ...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/edgar-allan-poe-and-scrabble.html
In Canada this week, Evan Solomon’s firing by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the biggest entertainment deal going. We’re not going to belabor the story, or even repeat much of it at...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/cbc-cuts-evan-solomon-and-january.html
Survivor guilt is the tragic thread that winds through much of Alex’s Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance (Da Capo) by Martin Goldsmith (The Inextinguishable Symphony). A si...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/new-in-paperback-alexs-wake-by-martin.html
We reported a while ago that coloring books are the Next Big Thing. In case you weren’t sure, though, the Los Angeles Times has said that Bantam is gearing up to publish a Game of Thrones color...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-color-is-winter-westeros-through.html
Ellen DeGeneres is known for many things, but her foray into feature filmmaking is quite new. Still the comedienne and television host is known for successful entertainment undertakings and there...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/ellen-to-produce-naomi-novik-novel.html
Irvine Welsh is not an acquired taste. But no matter what he’s writing about, he is consistent. He draws his images and ideas with big, bold lines liberally lubricated with profanity. If you li...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/fiction-sex-lives-of-siamese-twins-by.html
Want a sweet secret? There's probably more to every aspect of honey than you imagine. As much as anything, author Angelo Prosperi-Porta writes, Honey (Touchwood) is “about the time-honored anci...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/cookbooks-honey-by-angelo-prosperi-porta.html
The Poetry Foundation names a Young People’s Poet Laureate every two years. In 2015, the $25,000 laureate title has been awarded to Jacqueline Woodson. “Jacqueline Woodson is an elegant, dari...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/jacqueline-woodson-named-young-peoples.html
When I read The String Diaries earlier this year, I was simply amazed. I’d expected a thriller. What I didn’t expect was something as exceptionally well-written. Stephen Lloyd Jon...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/fiction-written-in-blood-by-stephen.html
Novelist Nicola Griffith (Slow River, Ammonite, The Blue Place) analyzed the last 15 years’ results from a bunch of the heavy hitting award programs: Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, National ...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/in-literature-do-women-have-cooties.html
Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James has announced a new book for her series of internationally bestselling erotica novels. We cannot critique as we have not read, but we’ll let her publisher c...
http://januarymagazine.blogspot.com/2015/06/fifty-shades-of-sell-through-new-grey.html