Book News You Can Use 1/16/15
Relax in Paradise Robert Stone . Word also just came in that Gwynne Forster has passed away. Thoughts and prayers go out to Ruth Rendell, who just suffered a stroke . Here is a list of six upcoming books by African-American women to look forward to this year. If there is a Gone Girl sequel , I hope involves a main character being locked up in prison or in a mental institution. Speaking of Gone Girl, you can get a copy of an Amazing Amy book if you buy the Blu-Ray. Books turned into movies and TV shows did well in this week's Golden Globe Awards . The Man In 3B movie will be featured in the Pan African Film and Arts Festival . Idris Elba is developing a movie trilogy where Edgar Allen Poe is an unlikely hero. I know it's unlikely, but can Idris play Poe? Celeste Ng dispels the myth that there are a lack of female Asian-American writers and provides a list to prove it. Roxane Gay talks to Salon about her nonfiction book, Bad Fem...