Joe Hill

Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future

2012-05-21 16:36:10

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Unions and America fit together like … Legos

2011-09-05 00:00:00

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Literary highlights of Comic-Con

2011-07-25 16:34:39

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The Siren's Call: Summer chills from Neil Gaiman & Co.

2010-06-04 14:55:00

Let's face it: If Homer or Virgil were writing today, their work would probably get shelved in the fantasy section of the bookstore rather than in "Classics of Western Literature." "Oh, c'mon," I imagine some bookseller saying, "the publisher says this...

Tom Morello lets pro-labor flag fly in new 'Union Town' EP

2011-04-28 04:36:00

Will comic book hero Stan Lee turn into a zombie for 'Walking Dead'?

2011-05-10 16:35:57

'Horns' by Joe Hill

2010-03-01 00:00:00

The first page of "Horns" sets up the novel so neatly that it's almost a shame to recapitulate it here. But this much you need to know: Joe Hill's new book is about a man named Ignatius Perrish (most of the time, he's called Ig) who wakes up hung over and...

Astral Weeks: 'Another conversation bleeds into yours'

2009-11-29 00:00:00

While assembling my notes for a review of the Library of America anthology "American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny" (Library of America, two volumes, edited by Peter Straub: "From Poe to the Pulps," 746 pp., $35; "From the 1940s to Now," 714 pp....

Molly Ivins -- 'a truth-seeking missile'

2007-02-04 00:00:00

Atrue maverick died in Texas last week, and they don't make 'em extra. There'll always be plenty of George Bushes and John Kerrys to go around; the Crips and the Bloods will trot them out every four years whether we like it or not. But a voice in the...

The Western sage

2007-11-24 00:00:00

The California writer Wallace Stegner is well known to readers for novels such as "Angle of Repose" and "Crossing to Safety." But Stegner had another dimension, as an advocate for a literary West -- especially the West of mountains and desert and big...

Daniel Radcliffe to star in 'Horns': Actor signs up for Red Granite's supernatural thriller

2012-07-13 21:45:10

Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in supernatural fantasy/thriller "Horns." Pic will be financed by Red Granite Pictures. Red Granite will co-produce the film with Mandalay Pictures. Based on the novel by Joe Hill, "Horns" is being directed by...

Radcliffe, Kazan uttering 'F Word': 'Potter' star ramps up romantic comedy

2012-07-17 21:45:13

After eight "Harry Potter" films and a handful of dark indies, Daniel Radcliffe is ready to tackle a new chapter of his career: the romantic comedy. Radcliffe and "Ruby Sparks" star Zoe Kazan are set to topline "The F Word," an indie pic from No Trace...

Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world's largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London.

2011-11-17 00:00:00