"Cocaine Nights Cocaine Nights is a 1996 novel by J. G. Ballard. Like ""Super-Cannes"" that followed it, it deals with the idea of dystopian resort communities which maintain their seemingly perfect balance via a number of dark secrets. The story's protagonist, Charles Prentice, ventures to Estrella de Mar in order to rescue his jailed brother, Frank who has been arrested for instigating an arson attack which killed 5 people. Upon arriving and talking with his sibling, Charles finds to his horror that his brother has confessed to everything, and has no interest in trying to escape his plea. In a"
"Marvel Comics' ""The Amazing Spider-Man"", followed by runs on ""Thor"" and ""Fantastic Four"". He is also the author of the """" trilogy of graphic novels, and has written ""Superman"", ""Wonder Woman"", and ""Before Watchmen"" for DC Comics. Straczynski is the creator and writer of several original comic book series such as ""Rising Stars"", ""Midnight Nation"", ""Dream Police"", and ""Ten Grand"" through Joe's Comics. A prolific writer across a variety of media and former journalist, Straczynski is the author of the novels ""Blood Night"" (1988), ""Othersyde"" (1990), and ""Tribulations"" (2000), the short fiction collection ""Straczynski Unplugged"" (2004), and the nonfiction book"
"Christopher Rice Christopher Travis Rice (born March 11, 1978) is an American author. Rice has penned multiple bestselling novels, including: ""A Density of Souls"", ""The Snow Garden"", ""Light Before Day"", ""Blind Fall"", ""The Moonlit Earth"", ""The Heavens Rise"", and ""The Vines"". His work has been described as spanning multiple genres, including suspense, crime, supernatural thriller, and erotic romance. With his mother Anne Rice he also co-authored the historical horror novel """". Christopher Rice comes from a family of authors. His parents are renowned horror novelist Anne Rice and the late poet Stan Rice; his aunt, Alice Borchardt, was a noted"
"Launch"""", published in """"Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol 2. Issue # 8"""" Michael Kupperman Michael Kupperman, also known by the pseudonym P. Revess, is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He created the comic strips ""Up All Night"" and ""Found in the Street"", and has written scripts for DC Comics. His work often dwells in surrealism and absurdity ""played as seriously as possible."" His work has appeared in ""The New Yorker"", ""The New York Times"", ""LA Weekly"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", ""Screw"", ""Fortune"", ""The Independent on Sunday"", ""Libération"", ""Nickelodeon Magazine"", ""The Believer"", and ""Heavy Metal"", as well as in comics anthologies"
"Michael Kupperman Michael Kupperman, also known by the pseudonym P. Revess, is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He created the comic strips ""Up All Night"" and ""Found in the Street"", and has written scripts for DC Comics. His work often dwells in surrealism and absurdity ""played as seriously as possible."" His work has appeared in ""The New Yorker"", ""The New York Times"", ""LA Weekly"", ""The Wall Street Journal"", ""Screw"", ""Fortune"", ""The Independent on Sunday"", ""Libération"", ""Nickelodeon Magazine"", ""The Believer"", and ""Heavy Metal"", as well as in comics anthologies such as ""Hotwire"", ""Snake Eyes"", ""Zero Zero"", ""Hyena"", ""Hodags and Hodaddies"", ""Blood"
"Innocent Sleep"", ""Phoenix Blue"", ""The Opium War"", ""Beowulf"", ""Baby Blue"", ""The Dancer Upstairs"", ""Shanghai Knights"", ""Bone Hunter"", ""Rain Dogs"", ""Colour Me Kubrick"", ""Pope Joan"", ""The Dark Knight Rises"", Tooting Broadway, A Long Time Coming. For the stage his writing includes: The Enoch Show (Royal Court), Scrabble (National Theatre), Wet Weather Cover (King's Head & Arts Theatre), Daytona, Dessert, Sans Souci. His TV and film scripts include: A Touch of Frost, Diamond Geezer, Trace, The Intruder, Singing for Stalin, Sofa, Wet Weather Cover the Movie, Peeping Through and The English Game. Cotton also plays classical guitar, and he writes for both"
"Kyle Mills (author) Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including ""Rising Phoenix"", ""Fade"", and ""The Second Horseman"". Several of his books (""Rising Phoenix"", ""Storming Heaven"", ""Sphere of Influence"", ""Free Fall"" and ""Darkness Falls"") include a character ""Mark Beamon"", an FBI special agent. He also wrote ""The Ares Decision"" (2011), ""The Utopia Experiment"" (2013), and ""The Patriot Attack"" (2015), the eighth, tenth, and twelfth installments of the ""Covert-One series"", originally created by Robert Ludlum. He is the current writer of the Mitch Rapp series of novels after original author Vince Flynn died in 2013. Mills lives"
"one phrase than most writers in a chapter."" Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including ""The Sundowners"" (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and ""The High Commissioner"" (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film and television adaptations. Cleary was born in Erskineville, Sydney and educated at Marist Brothers College, Randwick. When"
"It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Stella Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2017, McFarlane won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her collection of short stories, ""The High Places"". McFarlane's writing has also appeared in """", ""Southerly"" and ""The New Yorker"". Fiona McFarlane Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her book, ""The Night Guest"" and her collection of short stories, ""The High Places"". McFarlane was born in Sydney, Australia in 1978. She studied English at the University of Sydney, the University of Cambridge and the University of Texas at"
"J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as ""The Wind from Nowhere"" (1961) and ""The Drowned World"" (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or ""condensed novels""), such as those collected in the controversial ""The Atrocity Exhibition"" (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial ""Crash"" (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and ""High-Rise"" (1975), a"
"was translated into Italian and produced in Rome, Porto Ercole and Capri. His young adult play ""Bird Brain"" was recently published and he performed his one-person story-telling ""Love the Night"" at DR Lounge. He also was artist in residence at ""Culture Project"" in the summer of 2012 for ""IMPACT 2012"". He wrote a book, ""The Writers Afterlife"", that was published by Three Rooms Press in 2014. His play The Kids Menu made into a movie starring Vincent Pastore. His new novel is Champagne and Cocaine published by Three Rooms Press set in NYC in 1981. Richard Vetere Richard Vetere (born"
"Pierce Brown Pierce Brown is an American science fiction author who writes the ""Red Rising"" series, consisting of ""Red Rising"" (2014), ""Golden Son"" (2015), ""Morning Star"" (2016), ""Iron Gold"" (2018) and ""Dark Age"" (2019). Pierce Brown grew up in seven different states. His mother, Colleen Brown, was the President and CEO of Fisher Communications and the Chairman of American Apparel's Board of Directors. His father, Guy Brown, is a former local banker. Brown graduated from Pepperdine University, where he majored in political science and economics. After graduation, he worked a variety of jobs in politics and startup tech companies. Brown"
"cousin Rene Steinke is also an author. Darcey Steinke Darcey Steinke (born April 25, 1962) is an American author and educator. She has written five novels: ""Up Through the Water,"" ""Suicide Blonde,"" ""Jesus Saves,"" and ""Milk,"" ""Easter Everywhere,"" and ""Sister Golden Hair"". Steinke has also served as a lecturer at Princeton University, the American University of Paris, New School University, Barnard College, the University of Mississippi, and Columbia University. Steinke, born in Oneida, New York, on April 25, 1962, is the daughter of a Lutheran minister. Steinke grew up in upstate New York; Connecticut; Philadelphia; and Roanoke, Virginia. She is"
"escaped 2 years later. After the escape O'Reilly moved to Boston and embarked on a successful writing and journalism career that produced works such as ""Moondyne"" (1879) and ""Songs from the Southern Seas"" (1873), and poems such as The Cry of the Dreamer"" and "" The White Rose and In Bohemia. He married Mary Murphy in 1872 and had 4 daughters. In the last 4 years of his life he suffered various health issues before dying of an overdose in his summer home in Hull in 1890. His memorial service held at Tremont Temple was a major public event O'Reilly's"
"Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including ""The Sundowners"" (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and ""The High Commissioner"" (1966), the first of a long series of popular detective fiction works featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. A number of Cleary's works have been the subject of film and television adaptations. Cleary was born in Erskineville, Sydney and educated at Marist Brothers College, Randwick. When he was ten his father spent six months"
"Todd Klinck Todd Klinck (born November 15, 1974 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, nightclub owner and pornography producer. Klinck moved to Toronto at age 18 to study theatre at York University, but dropped out to focus on his career. In 1996, his novel ""Tacones (High Heels)"" was the winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest, and was published by Anvil Press to strong reviews in the ""Toronto Star"" and ""Quill and Quire"". Klinck also collaborated with John Palmer and Jaie Laplante on the screenplay for the 2004 film ""Sugar"", which garnered a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the"
"Ho"" (1947); ""High School Confidential"" (1958); ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964); ""Help!"" (1965); ""Blowup"" (1966); ""The Trip"" (1967); ""I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Yellow Submarine"" (1968); ""Easy Rider"" (1969); ""The Harder They Come"" (1972); ""Serpico"" (1973); ""Shampoo"" (1975); ""Annie Hall"" (1977); ""Up In Smoke, Rockers"" (1978); ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979); ""Where the Buffalo Roam"" (1980); ""Nice Dreams"" (1981); ""Fast Times at Ridgemont High"" (1982); ""Still Smokin'"" (1983); ""Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers"" (1984); ""That Was Then... This Is Now"" (1985); ""Platoon"" (1986); ""Born in East L.A."" (1987); ""1969"" (1988); ""Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"" (1989); ""Far Out Man"" (1990);"
"Heathcote Williams John Henley Heathcote-Williams (15 November 1941 – 1 July 2017), known as Heathcote Williams, was an English poet, actor, political activist and dramatist. He wrote a number of book-length polemical poems including ""Autogeddon"", ""Falling for a Dolphin"" and ""Whale Nation"", which in 1988 became, according to Philip Hoare, ""the most powerful argument for the newly instigated worldwide ban on whaling."" Williams invented his idiosyncratic ""documentary/investigative poetry"" style which he put to good purpose bringing a diverse range of environmental and political matters to public attention. His last published work, ""American Porn"" was a critique of the American political"
"and Peter McCoy; and a daughter, Amanda McCoy. He died in Beverly Hills, CA of a heart attack. ""All-Star Detective Stories"""": ""Black Mask"": ""Detective-Dragnet Magazine"": ""Detective Action Stories"": ""Man Stories"": ""Nickel Detective"": ""Popular Fiction"": Horace McCoy Horace McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose hardboiled novels took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death. McCoy was born in Pegram, Tennessee. During World War I McCoy served in the United"
"Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers • The Writers Directory Jon Manchip White Jon Ewbank Manchip White (23 June 1924 – July 31, 2013) was the Welsh American author of more than thirty books of non-fiction and fiction, including ""The Last Race"", ""Nightclimber"", ""Death By Dreaming"", ""Solo Goya"", and his final novel, ""Rawlins White: Patriot to Heaven"", published in 2011. White was also the author of a number of plays, teleplays, screenplays and volumes of short stories and poetry. White was born in 1924 in Cardiff, Wales, to shipping company owner Gwilym Manchip White. When White was young his father"
"Cameron, he published the novel ""The Lost Ones"" (1961), later dramatized by The Walt Disney Company as the movie ""The Island at the Top of the World"", as well as the novels ""The Mountains at the Bottom of the World"" (1972) and ""The White Ship"" (1975). He has also edited several Reader's Digest volumes, such as the Travels & Adventure series. He lived in Surrey, England, and had four sons and one daughter. He died on 22 August 2018 in East Surrey Hospital. Donald G. Payne Donald Gordon Payne (3 January 1924 in London - 22 August 2018) was an"
"Carl Foreman Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""High Noon"", among others. He was one of the screenwriters who were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to a working-class Jewish family, he was the son of Fanny (Rozin) and Isidore Foreman. He studied at the University of Illinois. As a student in the 1930s, he became an advocate of revolutionary socialism"
"Elmo Williams James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film ""High Noon"" (1952) received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published ""Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir"". Among the films that Williams edited are ""High Noon"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954) and ""The Vikings"" (1958). Williams was involved in the production of ""The Longest Day"" (1962) and ""Cleopatra"" (1963), and he was a producer of the film ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"" (1970). Between 1971 and 1974 Williams was"
"Dark Hills (Edward Arlington Robinson) 1950 Spring, the Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashe) 1950-51 Tulmutuous Moment (Lew Sarett) 1951* Desire in Spring (Francis Ledwidge) 1952 Evening (Rupert Brooke) 1952* To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe) 1953 Remember Me (Christina Rossetti) 1954 The Blackbird (William Ernest Henley) 1955 Music When Soft Voices Die (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 1957 Dry Spell (Lizzi Morrison) 1957* River Roses (D.H. Lawrence) 1958* Dover Beach (Matthew Arnold) 1958 In the Evening of Inhabiting Mists (Linda Joy) 1959* Spring (Jack Wertz) 1960* The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear) 1960 Bobby Shafto (Mother Goose) 1961 Laura Sleeping (Charles Cotton) 1962"
"comprising four games and a comic book. Startide Rising Startide Rising is a 1983 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the second book of six set in his Uplift Universe (preceded by ""Sundiver"" and followed by ""The Uplift War""). It earned both Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It was revised by the author in 1993 to correct errors and omissions from the original edition. An early work by David Brin, it was extremely well reviewed when it was published, has remained popular, and served as the seed for three more novels which revolved around the crew"
"include Rebecca Clarke’s ""Eight o’ clock"" (1928); ""Yonder see the morning blink"" (1929) by Freda Mary Swain (1902–1985); and ""The Deserter"" included in Elisabeth Lutyens ""6 Songs"" (1934–1936). Post-war settings include ""The night is freezing fast"" (1958) by Margarita L. Merriman (b.1927); ""We’ll to the woods no more"" (1962) by Mayme Chanwai (b. Hong Kong, 1939); ""The half moon westers low"" (1965) by the American Susan Calvin; ""The laws of God, the laws of man"" by Joyce Howard Barrell; and ""Her strong enchantments failing"" (retitled as ""The queen of air and darkness""), together with ""Eight o’clock"", by Elaine Hugh-Jones (2011)."
"A Long Way Down A Long Way Down is a novel written by British author Nick Hornby, published in 2005. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity. The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ. These four strangers happen to meet on the roof of a high building called Toppers' House in London on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Their plans for death in solitude are ruined when they meet. The novel"
"Robin Spriggs Robin Spriggs (born April 1, 1974) is an American writer, actor, and poet. Known primarily as a dark fabulist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed ""The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom,"" ""Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist,"" and ""Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny."" He is the co-author of ""The Dracula Poems: A Poetic Encounter with the Lord of Vampires"" and the creator of "","" a ""book-in-a-box"" superhero board game based on his illustrated series, ""Capes & Cowls: The Wyrd City Chronicles."" Spriggs holds degrees in both English and Theatre. He has been nominated for a Pushcart"
"the alchemical text ""Three Dreams"", by Giovanni Battista Nazari, was published in 2003 by Opus Magnum Hermetic Sourceworks in Glasgow. He has also been a frequent speaker at the International Fortean Organization (INFO) Fortfests and the ""Fortean Times"" UnConventions. Doug Skinner Doug Skinner (born January 7, 1955) is an American composer, writer, and performer. Skinner has written music for many dance companies, including ODC/Dance in San Francisco and Margaret Jenkins. He has often written for the theater: in particular, he has had a long association with the actor/clown Bill Irwin; he wrote and performed the music for Irwin's ""Murdoch"" ('81),"
"Kathryn Le Veque Kathryn Elizabeth Bouse Le Veque Hogan is an American USA Today bestselling independent author of Historical Romance fiction novels. She is the author of over 60 historical romance novels, as well as ten contemporary romance novels. She is most known for writing ""The Dark One: Dark Knight"", ""Rise of the Defender"", ""The Wolfe"", ""The Savage Curtain"", and ""Island of Glass"". Le Veque was born in 1964 in Glendale and was raised in Pasadena, California. She attended University of Southern California. She started writing as a hobby when she was thirteen. She continued writing through high school, college"
"signed the ""Writers and Editors War Tax Protest"" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments as a protest against the Vietnam War. James Leo Herlihy James Leo Herlihy (; February 27, 1927 – October 21, 1993) was an American novelist, playwright and actor. Herlihy is known for his novels ""Midnight Cowboy"" and ""All Fall Down"", and his play ""Blue Denim"", all of which were adapted for cinema. Other publications include ""The Season of the Witch"" and several short stories. Herlihy was born into a working-class family in Detroit, Michigan in 1927. He was raised in Detroit and Chillicothe, Ohio. He enlisted"
"Dennis Lehane Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including ""A Drink Before the War"". Of these, his fourth, ""Gone, Baby, Gone"", was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. Lehane has taken on different topics in other novels. Those adapted as films of the same name included ""Mystic River"" (2001), with a 2003 film by the same name, directed by Clint Eastwood, which won several awards. ""Shutter Island"" was"
"John W. Cunningham John Marshall Cunningham (July 28, 1915 – June 4, 2002) was an American author who wrote a number of Western novels and stories as ""John W. Cunningham"" or ""John M. Cunningham."" During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army in the South Pacific. While living in Santa Barbara, California, he became a published novelist. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1985, where he lived until his death. His most famous work was ""The Tin Star"", a short story which appeared in ""Collier's Magazine"" in 1947. It was adapted into the film ""High Noon"" in"