Patricia Highsmith

Jan 5, 2025 | booksofbrilliance.com | Patricia Highsmith

There are few institutions that have successfully integrated into the book culture successfully. But Barnes & Noble has won over many readers and has become a trusty source along the way. That is why we will be looking at Barnes & Noble’s 37 best books that you must read! The debate of what books are must reads is an old one that changes with every new classic. But for the most part, many of the books on such lists tend to remain the same.

Nov 20, 2024 | mysteriesahoy.com | Agatha Christie |Patricia Highsmith

Originally published in 1967When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman’s warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy’s Acre is the place where fatal “accidents” happen. I have spent a week or so mulling over the best approach to take in writing about Endless Night.

Oct 1, 2024 | leadersedge.com | Scott Naugle |Patricia Highsmith |Zach Ewell

Lifestyle Reader's Edge the October 2024 issue What does it say about the reader who will be gripped by tales in this collection that from the first paragraphs are clearly leading to death, or deaths, by, for example, creeping vines or the practice of arranging your deceased, stuffed pets as garden statuary?

Jul 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Patricia Highsmith

The nominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday morning, with small-screen adaptations of books amply represented among the finalists. Shōgun, the series based on James Clavell’s 1975 bestselling novel, scored 25 nominations, including nods for drama series, lead actor in a drama series (Hiroyuki Sanada), lead actress in a drama series (Anna Sawai), and supporting actor in a drama series (Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira).

Jul 8, 2024 | electricliterature.com | André Aciman |James Baldwin |Patricia Highsmith |Liz Riggs

There’s this song that I love that I listened to quite a bit in the Fall of 2021. It became a kind of North Star lyric as I was rewriting my novel, Lo Fi, as it encompassed a feeling my narrator was dealing with, fresh off a too-long situationship, trying to forget someone. I wasn’t going through any kind of breakup myself as I wrote, but I needed to channel those same emotions, so I listened over and over.