Liz Moore

1 week ago | skjbollywoodnews.com | Liz Moore |Clemence Michallon |Ruth Ware |Tana French

Thriller books have a reputation for being fast-paced and twisty, but some of the greatest additions to the genre are actually slow-burn stories with great payoff. While fast-paced, suspenseful thrillers make for engaging reads, slower storytelling lends itself to better setup. It often lays the groundwork for a book’s ending twist, allowing the author to build out the world with clues and red herrings that contribute to the big revelation.

1 month ago | lithub.com | Emily Temple |Harlan Coben |Liz Moore |Simon Stålenhag

White House Murders, Robot Wars, and Dumb Dope Thieves Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this...

2 months ago | amymakechnie.substack.com | Samantha Silva |Liz Moore |Sharon McMahon |Amy Makechnie

I read a lot in January, more than usual. This makes me happy as I’m always trying to read more. It helped that it’s been absolutely frigid and hard to leave the house (see? I’m trying to be positive about -4 degree temps). All fantastic reads:Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva. Historical Fiction. 1843 London. Christmas is approaching and Charles Dickens is facing a terrifying writer’s slump. Bills are piling up. The threat of bankruptcy, shame, and “the poor house” is looming.

Jan 13, 2025 | nytimes.com | Liz Moore

Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children's book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak. The book was "The Scroobious Pip," Edward Lear's nonsense poem about an uncategorizable creature: part beast, part bird, part fish, part insect. The man bringing it to visual life was a beloved illustrator, a master of realism whose versions of "The Night Before Christmas," "Peter Rabbit" and "The Wizard of Oz" have sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

Dec 5, 2024 | news.nestia.com | Liz Moore |Francis Spufford

I’ve long believed that crime fiction runs along a spectrum between order and chaos, where the two seemingly disparate states are always intertwined, ever-changing, never settled. It makes sense that a genre offering a window into the way we really function in society and behave with one another would embrace constraints while also constantly subverting them.