"Get Shorty Get Shorty is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same title, and in 2017 it was adapted into a television series of the same title. The story centers on Ernesto ""Chili"" Palmer, a small-time loan shark based in Miami, Florida. After a run-in with mobster Ray ""Bones"" Barboni, Chili goes to Las Vegas in pursuit of Leo Devoe, a dry-cleaner who has scammed an airline out of $300,000 in life insurance by faking his own death, avoiding his $10,000 debt to Chili's employers. After relieving"
"Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are ""Get Shorty"", ""Out of Sight"", ""Swag"", ""Hombre"", ""Mr. Majestyk"", and ""Rum Punch"" (adapted as the movie ""Jackie Brown""). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films ""3:10 to Yuma"" and ""The Tall T"", as well as the FX television series ""Justified"". Leonard was born"
"snacks and beg for more."" <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Short & Shivery Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published from 1987-1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci (also known for writing various other scary children's books, including ""Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill"". The popular anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including classics by various famous authors throughout history. Selected from international ghost folklore, each volume contains 30 stories,"
"Those actions insured that the U.S. would continue its decline. Getting Real (short story) ""Getting Real"" is a science fiction short story written by Harry Turtledove and published in the March 2009 edition of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The short story takes place in a run down Los Angeles, California in the year 2117 where the United States is no longer a world power but an ""economic basket case"" ever since China refused to renew its loans to the government a century earlier. As a result, China becomes the worlds largest military and economic power, in addition in leading the"
"Kate Ross Katherine Jean ""Kate"" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel. The novels in the series are ""Cut to the Quick"" (1994), which won the 1994 Gargoyle award for in the category of Best Historical Mystery, ""A Broken Vessel"" (1995), ""Whom the Gods Love"" (1996) and ""The Devil in Music"" (1997), which won the 1997 Agatha Award for in the category of Best Novel.""The Lullaby Cheat"" (1997), a short story featuring Kestrel, is included in the mystery anthology ""Crime Through"
"Short & Shivery Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published from 1987-1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci (also known for writing various other scary children's books, including ""Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill"". The popular anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including classics by various famous authors throughout history. Selected from international ghost folklore, each volume contains 30 stories, specifically retold by author Robert D."
"Davey Holmes Davey Holmes (born October 4, 1969) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. Holmes is the creator and Executive Producer of the television show ""Get Shorty"" (Epix), and Executive Producer of the show ""Shameless"" (Showtime). Other shows he has written for include ""In Treatment"" (HBO) for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay - New Series, ""Damages"" (FX) for which he received a nomination for Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay - New Series, ""Pushing Daisies"" (ABC), ""Awake"", (NBC), ""Chicago Code"", (FOX) ""3 lbs"" (CBS; starring Stanley Tucci) and ""Law &"
"Getting Real (short story) ""Getting Real"" is a science fiction short story written by Harry Turtledove and published in the March 2009 edition of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. The short story takes place in a run down Los Angeles, California in the year 2117 where the United States is no longer a world power but an ""economic basket case"" ever since China refused to renew its loans to the government a century earlier. As a result, China becomes the worlds largest military and economic power, in addition in leading the world in technological research and development. In an earlier conflict"
"he is very, very bad quite often. ""Sea Battles"" is filled with whoppers: misstatements, overstatements, nonstatements and statements that are silly, false or incomprehensible."" Harold Brodkey Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist. Brodkey was born in Staunton, Illinois, to an illiterate junk dealer. His mother died while he was an infant, and he was raised by his father's relatives, who adopted him, in University City, Missouri, outside St. Louis. When he was eight, his adoptive mother developed cancer and his adoptive father had a stroke. Brodkey"
"Popsy (short story) ""Popsy"" is a horror short story by American writers Stephen King, included in his short story compilation ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes,"" published in 1993. Sheridan, a gambling addict, has taken to abducting children for a man known as Mr. Wizard in order to pay off his enormous debts to a mobster who has threatened Sheridan with grievous bodily harm; Wizard has told Sheridan only that the children go ""on a boat ride"" (implicitly for human trafficking overseas), and Sheridan wants no further information. While lurking in a mall parking lot in his modified van, Sheridan spots his newest"
"Rick Moody Hiram Frederick ""Rick"" Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel ""The Ice Storm"", a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film ""The Ice Storm"". Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike, and in 1999 ""The New Yorker"" chose him as one of America's most talented young writers, placing him on their ""20 Writers for the 21st Century"" list."
"Beverly Cleary Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; born April 12, 1916) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful living authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse. The majority of Cleary's books are set in the Grant Park neighborhood of northeast Portland, Oregon, where she was raised, and she has been credited as one of the first authors of"
"in speculation that the incident may have been racially motivated rather than a matter of critical differences. Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel ""The Sportswriter"" and its sequels, ""Independence Day"", ""The Lay of the Land"" and ""Let Me Be Frank With You"", and the short story collection ""Rock Springs"", which contains several widely anthologized stories. His novel ""Wildlife"" was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker"
"Gloria Whelan Gloria Whelan (born November 23, 1923) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist known primarily for children's and young adult fiction. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel ""Homeless Bird"". She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction with her short story entitled What World Is This? and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories. Whelan's books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia. Whelan"
"R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. Stine has been referred to as the ""Stephen King of children's literature"" and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the ""Fear Street"", ""Goosebumps"", ""Rotten School,"" ""Mostly Ghostly,"" and ""The Nightmare Room"" series. Some of his other works include a ""Space Cadets"" trilogy, two ""Hark"" gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. As of 2008, Stine's books have sold over 400 million"
"for Murder"" (2009), ""Diva Las Vegas"" (2010), and ""Swinging in the Rain"" (2011) Notable characters appearing in some of his novels include ""Miles Jacoby,"" ""Joe Keough,"" ""Nick Delvecchio,"" ""Gil and Claire Hunt,"" Truxton Lerwis,"" ""Eddie G."" and ""The Rat Pack."" Robert J. Randisi Robert Joseph Randisi (born August 24, 1951) is an American author who writes in the detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he ""may be the last of the pulp writers."" He co-founded and edited ""Mystery Scene"" magazine and"
"Luke Short (writer) Luke Short (born Frederick Dilley Glidden November 19, 1908 – August 18, 1975) was a popular Western writer. Born in Kewanee, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism. Following graduation in 1930, he worked for a number of newspapers before becoming a trapper in Canada. He later moved to New Mexico to be an archeologist's assistant. After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment, he began to write Western fiction. He sold his first"
"Shortcut to Happiness Shortcut to Happiness is a 2003 film adaptation of the Stephen Vincent Benet classic short story ""The Devil and Daniel Webster"". It stars Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anthony Hopkins. Baldwin also directed the film. Shot in early 2001 in New York City, the film was plagued with financial difficulties and was shelved for several years. Yari Film Group released the film to theaters in 2007. Jabez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is a desperate, down-on-his-luck writer who hits rock bottom when his close friend, Julius Jensen (Dan Aykroyd), finds success. In his attempts to get his work"
"Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel ""The Sportswriter"" and its sequels, ""Independence Day"", ""The Lay of the Land"" and ""Let Me Be Frank With You"", and the short story collection ""Rock Springs"", which contains several widely anthologized stories. His novel ""Wildlife"" was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the only son of Parker Carrol and Edna Ford. Parker was a traveling salesman for Faultless Starch, a Kansas City company. Of his mother, Ford said, ""Her"
"Simmons Short Fiction Award. Ryan Harty Ryan Harty is an American writer. His first book, ""Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona"", was published in 2003 by University of Iowa Press. He is married to fellow writer Julie Orringer. Harty grew up in Arizona and northern California and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and the recipient of a Henfield-Transatlantic Review Award. His stories have appeared in ""Tin House"" and ""The Missouri Review"" and have been anthologized in ""The 2003 Pushcart Prize"" and ""The Best American Short Stories 2003""."
"Leonard also contributed one chapter (the twelfth of thirteen) to the 1996 ""Miami Herald"" parody serial novel ""Naked Came the Manatee"" (). Twenty-six of Leonard's novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen (19 as motion pictures and another seven as television programs). Aside from the short stories already noted, a number of Leonard's novels have been adapted as films, including ""Get Shorty"" (1990 novel, 1995 film), ""Out of Sight"" (1996 novel, 1998 film), and ""Rum Punch"" (1992 novel, 1997 film ""Jackie Brown""). ""52 Pick-Up"" (1986 film) was first adapted very loosely into the 1984 film ""The Ambassador"""
"Short Stories (magazine) Short Stories was an American fiction magazine that existed between 1890 and 1959. ""Short Stories"" began its existence as a literary periodical, carrying work by Rudyard Kipling, Émile Zola, Bret Harte, Ivan Turgenev and Anna Katharine Green. The magazine advertised itself with the slogan ""Twenty-Five Stories for Twenty-Five Cents"". After a few years, ""Short Stories"" became dominated by reprinted fiction. The magazine was sold in 1904 and eventually purchased by Doubleday, Page and Company, which in 1910 transformed ""Short Stories"" into a ""quality pulp"". The magazine's new editor, Harry E. Maule (1886-1971) placed an emphasis on ""Short"
"world. In 1949, Bradbury and his wife were expecting their first child. He took a Greyhound bus to New York and checked into a room at the YMCA for 50 cents a night. He took his short stories to a dozen publishers and no one wanted them. Just before getting ready to go home, Bradbury had dinner with an editor at Doubleday. When Bradbury recounted that everyone wanted a novel and he did not have one, the editor, coincidentally named Walter Bradbury, asked if the short stories might be tied together into a book-length collection. The title was the editor's"
"Palmer's more brainwork than they'd know what to do with and what do we get for it? Eight hour's sleep, I guess, because that's about all we're fit for. Wallace notes that Morley ""knows Philadelphia and pokes fun at it constantly, with a sharpness born of long and affection intimacy."" Kitty Foyle (novel) Kitty Foyle is a 1939 American novel by Christopher Morley. A bestseller in 1939 and 1940, it was adapted as a popular 1940 film. The novel tells of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. ""Contemporary Authors"""
"Barth's metafictional short story ""Lost in the Funhouse"". Girl with Curious Hair Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989. Though the stories are not related, several reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of ""Brat Pack"" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis. Others address society's fascination with celebrity, some with characters based on real people, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson. A novella, ""Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"", closes"
"series in development with Lifetime, WE and Sony. Hoppe-House's play ""Bad Dog"" will have a rolling world premiere at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in April 2015 and the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland in September 2015. In 2009 and 2010, Hoppe-House and Fichman were nominated for a Writers Guild of America award. Both nominations were for their work on ""Nurse Jackie"". Jennifer Hoppe-House Jennifer Hoppe-House (also credited as Jennifer Hoppe) is an American film and television writer, having worked on the series “Grace and Frankie,” ""Get Shorty"" (2017), ""Nurse Jackie"" and ""Damages"". She also co-wrote the 2004 made-for-television movie"
"Jennifer Hoppe-House Jennifer Hoppe-House (also credited as Jennifer Hoppe) is an American film and television writer, having worked on the series “Grace and Frankie,” ""Get Shorty"" (2017), ""Nurse Jackie"" and ""Damages"". She also co-wrote the 2004 made-for-television movie ""The Dead Will Tell"". She often works with her writing partner Nancy Fichman. Hoppe and Fichman have sold and developed several feature film projects, including scripts for Mike Figgis, Allen Coulter, and Damon Santostefano. Their film ""Fortune"" is currently in development. Hoppe-House and Fichman have written the following television episodes. The team has sold pilots to HBO and TNT, and currently has"
"October 16, 2016. The network would expand its series development in May 2016, when Epix ordered a thriller comedy series based on the 1990 book and 1995 film adaptation ""Get Shorty"" – with Ray Romano tapped to headline its cast – to be produced by MGM Television. Subsequently, in January 2017, the network ordered the comedy pilot ""Picture Paris"" – a series adaptation of the 2011 short film written by Brad Hall, who was tapped as its showrunner – straight to series; the program would mark the first major television role by Meg Ryan, who was tapped as its star,"
"Get a Load of This (short story collection) Get a Load of This is a 1942 book by British writer James Hadley Chase. Unlike most of his other books, it is not a single story throughout, but a collection of 14 different short stories. The stories are not inter related, and most have twisted endings. The book was written by Chase while he was still in the Royal Air Force and was first published in early autumn 1941, and subsequently reprinted in 1988. Initially Chase's publisher was not in favour of him writing short stories, but he wrote a letter"
"The Short Victorious War The Short Victorious War is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1994. It is the third book in the Honor Harrington series. Its title comes from a quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: """"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."""" That quotation is one of the novel's two epigraphs; the other is a quotation from Robert Wilson Lynd: """"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and"
"James Purdy James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in ""The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy"". He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as ""an"
"Home Delivery (short story) ""Home Delivery"" is a short story by American writer Stephen King. It was first published in the zombie anthology ""Book of the Dead"" (1989) and later included in King's short story collection ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"" (1993). The protagonist of the story is Maddie Pace, a timid and indecisive young woman who lives on a small island named Gennesault (or ""Jenny""), off the coast of Maine. Maddie is both pregnant and a widow, having recently lost her husband in a fishing boat accident. After a scattering of initial outbreaks, dead bodies all over the world begin to"
"form and to assess music based on more enduring values, which are, it’s true, partly subjective, but which also come to rest on an understanding of what music has been"". Rick Moody Hiram Frederick ""Rick"" Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel ""The Ice Storm"", a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film ""The Ice Storm"". Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers"