It’s not as if contemporary male authors can’t write great love stories. There’s, well, Love Story for a start, by Erich Segal, and the great tear-jerker Endless Love by Scott Spencer. But it’s still an intriguing read when you have an unconventional whirlwind romance as told by a hapless Brit—think Hugh Grant meets James Corden—and that’s especially […]
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for example, four of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations of books—The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips (A Captain’s Duty), and Philomena (The Lost Child of Philomena Lee). Of course, it […]