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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 agent Eric Simonoff asked Jonathan Ames, “So what do you want to do with your writing career?”

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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 Baker's 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 preconceived notions of beauty, love or violence? What would happen to humanity if they could see through...

Star Trek's Brent Spiner Is Writing a Fictionalized Memoir ✖ In June 2020, Star Trek star Patrick Stewart announced he's writing his memoir. Not to be outdone, Stewart's friend and Star Trek co-star Brent Spiner has announced his own memoir, but with a twist. Spiner's story will be fictionalized as a noir thriller based on his life. The book's title is Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events, and the cover, designed by Rob Grom, includes an abstract version of Spiner's iconic android Star Trek character, Data, whom he played through seven seasons of "It's a little bit of this and...

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 well. In an exclusive interview with SYFY WIRE, Spiner shares how the book came to be, and what reader...