CBS All Access’ limited series, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, concluded filming just three days before COVID-19 shut down production worldwide earlier this year in March, yet the cast has noticed just how similar apocalypse in The Stand is to our current situation, including actor Nat Wolff, who plays Lloyd Henreid, henchman of the story’s supernatural antagonist Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård): “I got spooked. ‘Oh, COVID -19 is just like the flu’ like in the show, and I’m reading about prisoners in Italy lighting toilet paper on fire to get attention – I had just shot a scene where …
ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for over a quarter of a century, has announced this Tuesday that they would be “retiring” the event, along with BookCon.
The HBO limited series The Undoing, based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, ended with a bang last Sunday night, raking in the highest audience in HBO’s history since Big Little Lies. For those of you who haven’t been following the six-episode miniseries, The Undoing is a classic whodunit murder mystery, following a family whose father figure is accused of brutally bludgeoning a woman with a sculpting hammer (and for those of you who are unaware, a sculpting hammer is quite a large instrument). However, the difference between The Undoing and every other murder mystery – from Sherlock Holmes to Scooby Doo – is this: …
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Certainly Will Maclean does, as accompanying his signature on a thousand copies of his debut novel, The Apparition Phase, will be a single word which, when all arranged in the correct order, will form a coherent short story.
Stephen King’s new novel, Later, tells the story of Jamie Conklin, the son of a financially struggling mother who posses an ability that, according to King himself, lets him “see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn.” When an NYPD detective involves Jamie with the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave, he learns just how dangerous his gift truly is.
