Omni Daily News: CWA Awards, Monroe & Duff's Reading, Mandela's Writing
Crime Writer's Association winners announced: This year's CWA Gold Dagger went to Belinda Bauer for her chillingly convincing debut, Blacklands. Simon Conway took the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for A Loyal Spy, while Ryan David Jahn won the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger with Acts of Violence.
On Marilyn Monroe's shelves: Another sneak peek at Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters (available tomorrow) via GalleyCat Reviews should put to bed even casual comparisons between Monroe and Lindsay Lohan, who--we can only assume--has yet to read Beckett, Flaubert, Camus, Conrad, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Hemingway, or Ellison.
On Hilary Duff's shelves: As the pop singer and Lizzie McGuire star's paranormal romance novel, Elixir, releases tomorrow, Duff gives The New York Post a look at her library, starting with The Hunger Games and The Pact, and advises aspiring authors that "I wrote a book, so it goes to show you that anyone can write a book if they have an idea." It's that easy.
Moving and shaking: Released today, Nelson Mandela's new memoir, Conversations with Myself, delves into his private archive of letters, private recordings, and diaries--including those he kept during 27 years in prison, recording everything from his blood pressure to the content of his dreams--to deliver (in the words of Verne Harris, an archivist at the Mandela Foundation who put together the book) a "Mandela who is fallible, who is quirky, who is vulnerable, and that opens for me a Nelson Mandela who's far more accessible" [via CNN]. It's moving up our Movers & Shakers list--and nearing the top of our Bestsellers in Books.
scott baxter on October 12, 2010 at 08:23 AM
A book by Marilyn Monroe, I don't know about that. Here's one thing to think about. Billy Wilder had this to say about her after working with her on Some Like it Hot. (Apparently, she had so much trouble opening a drawer and saying one line, "where's the bourbon?" that he had a paper with the line put in every drawer. Wilder said of Monroe:
"Breasts of granite. Brains of jell-o."
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