Joe Germanotta, father to Lady Gaga, nabbed a deal with Post Hill Press for his cookbook, Joanne Trattoria Cookbook: Classic Recipes and Scenes from an Italian American Restaurant. The book takes homemade recipes from Joe’s local NYC restaurant, Joanne Trattoria, named after his sister, who died of Lupus shortly before her 20th birthday. Given the homely, traditional nature of the recipes and the rooted memory of Joanne in the book, it only seems natural that Gaga – also massive foodie – write the foreword. Head on over and Get your Joanne Trattoria Cookbook full of recipes and family stories! https://t.co/teRwq5feHg — …
I’m sure we can all contest – whether left leaning or right – that the oversaturation of Trump in the news and an inordinate attention to every sneeze, sniffle, and tweet is getting to be overwhelming. But he’s not the only figure flooding our media channels. Call it a sensitivity to overload that Trump has instilled this year, or maybe just spending too much time combing through book news, but it seems J.K. Rowling is in the news every day. We’re in high water with Harry Potter. Yes, there is… via GIPHY It’s with a heavy heart that I confess my annoyance. I’ve been …
Women read more fiction than men, according to a VIDA study. They enroll in more fiction courses, outnumbering men in pregrad and graduate seminars alike, and their sheer number every year appears to offer a new age of fiction dominated by women. Yet the number of female professional writers, publishing figures and prize winners is disproportionately low. Even more troubling, when a women does succeed in any of these writerly fields, it’s pinned as ‘women’s work’ and simultaneously championed as progressive victory – neither of which help to establish women as a natural presence in the writer’s world. Image courtesy …
The only way to make a Disney cult classic even more classic and more culty is by tossing Lin-Manuel Miranda into the ring. With Alan Menken on piano, the duo gives us their rendition of “Under the Sea”, “Kiss the Girl” and other nostalgic songs all in tow with much giggling and the theatrics only natural to the playwright and composer. Check out the pair practicing in a snip for Digital #Ham4Ham. On the live-action project, Deadline shared: “This one is being orchestrated as a mix of pre-existing songs from the 1989 Disney animated classic movie, for which Menken won two …
As we learned last week, J.K. Rowling’s release of the Cursed Child was met with an unprecedented 2 million copies within the first two days. Sounds promising, but not every buyer has been a happy camper. Fans are angered by the market-bait claim that the book is exactly that, a traditional book, when in reality what readers got was essentially a manuscript. Buyers felt slighted and salty, as could be expected. Less expected was the vocal upset from the LGBTQ community. The criticism is fuelled over what they see as queerbaiting, or the portrayal of seemingly homoerotic relationships without the fulfillment of actually …
