Stars revisit their childhood
Children's Day has just passed by, but celebs relive their childhood days and tell us how their childhood was. 'I remember playing cricket in Mumbai' I still remember my time as kid playing cricket at...
View ArticlePour Me: A Life by AA Gill review – from drunk to doyen of Fleet Street
Adrian Gill begins this memoir adrift, all at sea, in “a private mental hospital in the west of England” being handed a life sentence: if he goes on drinking, he won’t see Christmas. He is 30. A year...
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photo credit: Mathu Andersen Many of you know Michelle Visage from the hit show RuPaul's Drag Race, but don't be a fool and mistake her for a one-trick pony. Michelle is a pop star (with multiple...
View ArticleBruce Willis, Laurie Metcalf Star in "Misery" on Broadway
Obsession is a dangerous thing. It fills your intestines with knots as you twist and turn trying not to think of someone or something, begging to escape into any other headspace than the one where that...
View ArticleRain Music review: Di Morrissey shows the way to another bestseller
FICTION Rain Music BY DI MORRISSEY PAN MACMILLAN, $35 Advertisement REVIEW BY DIANNE DEMPSEY Literary festivals are strewn with poverty-stricken writers who deep down think they could turn out a...
View ArticleSister Souljah Returns With New Novel | Don Diva Magazine
Souljah Season has returned! Sister Souljah, the famed hip -hop activist and author that resurrected the literary game in 1999 when she dropped her classic novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, has returned...
View ArticlePick your favourites
Tune in Akriti Kakar, singer Favourite music album: Night Song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1996) I would recommend that everyone listen to Night Song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Kaash by Hariharan. I...
View ArticleMarilynne Robinson: ‘We don’t know anything about the future, as everything...
Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels, Housekeeping, Gilead, which won a Pulitzer, Home, which won the Orange prize, and Lila. One of her legions of fans is Barack Obama, who visited her...
View ArticleUpcoming author, April Howard
April Howard is local upcoming author who talks about the novel she's working on and her thoughts on a writing career. She points out in this interview that although she did struggle in her early...
View ArticleThe World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee book review: The magician
The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves Jai Arjun Singh Penguin Pp 331 R599 HE IS a filmmaker everyone loves. His films still make you laugh, cry and love life. So it is not a...
View ArticleAdele interviews Tobias Jesso Jr: ‘I think that a couple of the ideas we had...
Inspired by the Canadian singer-songwriter’s music, Adele asked him to co-write a track on her new album 25. Here, she talks to him about songcraft, dream playlists and hidden talents...
View ArticlePitching for change
For her second fictional work “Voice Mates” Anamika Mishra did not have to go far. Taking a leaf from her life, the writer was inspired to pen a story revolving around a teenage girl, a perfect child...
View ArticlePatrick Gale on A Place Called Winter: ‘a hybrid of Maurice and Brokeback...
Born on the Isle of Wight in 1962 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, Patrick Gale has spent most of his working life in Cornwall where he lives on the last farm before Land’s End. He...
View ArticleNorthlight revives “You Can’t Take it with You” with gusto
A funny thing happens on the way to the second act of “You Can’t Take It With You,” now at Northlight Theatre through Dec. 13, 2015. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s comedy about the nutty Vanderhoff-...
View ArticleA Whimsical and Imaginative Novel That Trusts in the Magically Real
By Laura McBride | Off the Shelf I once had lunch with a group of women who had been in a book group together for decades. I asked them about their favorite books, and the books they hated, and the...
View Article‘The history of punk was always HIS story’: the women rewriting rock
Music memoirs by artists such as Chrissie Hynde and Viv Albertine have taken the publishing world by storm, satisfying a hunger for less-told rock tales and changing our idea of what it means to be an...
View ArticleNew looks for old books: Why classics are getting makeovers
If familiar titles at the bookstore seem to be drawing the eye of your inner art lover more than usual lately, it’s not your imagination. Publishers are having a creative field day reissuing classic...
View ArticleThe Generals Who Won World War II
Winston Groom may be best known as the author of ‘Forrest Gump,’ but he’s also an astute and entertaining military historian. He talks about three key figures in World War II. Shop ▾ Interviewing...
View ArticleThe Women's Pages review: Debra Adelaide's fine novel about reading and writing
FICTION The Women's Pages DEBRA ADELAIDE Advertisement PICADOR, $29.99 Debra Adelaide's The Women's Pages is a gripping read. It is also a sophisticated meditation on the creative acts of reading and...
View ArticleUNCW Invites Campus, Community to 2015 Writers' Week (The University of North...
(Source: The University of North Carolina at Wilmington) Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Wilmington, NC (Nov. 10, 2015) -- Writers' Week, UNCW's annual celebration of the art and craft of writing, will take...
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