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FICTIONKatharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison WeirHaving sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixe

‘If you could keep the lascivious nature down a little bit. Just say, ‘He wrote scandalous essays,’ and keep it at that . . . you don’t have to say what they were about.” So says Jonathan Ames, writer

Mary Holland stars in  Golden Arm, a new road tripping buddy comedy with Betsy Sodaro that dives into the dysfunctional world of women’s arm wrestling. Ahead of its release via video on demand services on Friday, April 30, ComingSoon.net Managing Editor Tyler Treese got to speak with the talented actress. Holland opened up about her improv comedy background, her friendship with co-star Sodaro and the nuances found in competitive arm wrestling. Check out our Mary Holland interview below! Tyl...

When a Cold Case Turns Deadly Credit...Pablo Amargo April 23, 2021 This column doesn’t do trend spotting, but the proliferation of crime novels featuring true-crime podcasts as a plot device has not escaped notice. (I write and edit crime nonfiction; listening to such podcasts is an occupational hazard.) In her propulsive debut, GIRL, 11 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 340 pp., $25), Amy Suiter Clarke ventures further in the fusion of real-life and fictional crime storytelling, making the reader...

Now streaming on: A naive and sensitive young gentleman, Louis Ives (Paul Dano) fancies himself a budding writer, wishes he had lived in the 1920s of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and secretly yearns to don ladies undergarments. After an embarrassing incident that cuts short his career as a New Jersey English lit instructor, he makes his way to Manhattan to “find himself” — accompanied by a literary voiceover that tells us as much. In a rather shabby corner of the grand metropolis, Louis finds him...

Sections Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) Jonathan Ames, known for his confessional essays and TV shows like “Bored to Death,” tries his hand at a detective novel with “A Man Named Doll.” Jonathan Ames became a showrunner at HBO thanks to his short story “Bored to Death.” “Even then,” he said, “my Holy Grail was to be writing crime novels.”Credit...Adam Amengual for The New York Times April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET It was over lunch in 2013 that the literary agen...

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Coming to America, just in time for the sequel, Coming 2 America, to debut on March 5. Learn about the music and life of Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez. Catch some laughs — and maybe some feels — at a nonbinary, interactive comedy show. Listen to a concert by Joachim Cooder and Amythyst Kiah. Explore Bob Bakers Los Angeles. Tune in for the opening of Historic Belmar Park in Santa Monica. Friday, Feb. 26 - Friday, March 19 Pandora What if a woman were suddenly dropped into the world without precon...

Star Treks Brent Spiner Is Writing a Fictionalized Memoir ✖ In June 2020, Star Trek star Patrick Stewart announced hes writing his memoir. Not to be outdone, Stewarts friend and Star Trek co-star Brent Spiner has announced his own memoir, but with a twist. Spiners story will be fictionalized as a noir thriller based on his life. The books title is Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events, and the cover, designed by Rob Grom, includes an abstract version of Spiners iconic android Star...

Credit: Designed by Rob Grom for St. Martins Press The cover, designed by Rob Grom, evokes the many genres that the book dovetails between — the lipstick-kissed envelope calls up a thriller/noir element, for example, while an image of a young Brent Spiner-dressed-as-Data looks like it was created out of cut-out of pieces of paper, very similar to those used in a ransom note. Despite those dark evocations, however, the look of Spiner also suggests that the book will be a humorous read as wel...