http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz Media Coverage of New and Noteworthy Books Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:35:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to Variety, Will Smith is among a group of producers who have optioned The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine, an upcoming book by Benjamin Wallace. There were no reports on when production might begin. The story centers on an auctioned cache of wine ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2008/02/01/vinegar-gets-optioned-before-being-published/ On today's Bookworm on KCRW, Russell Banks stops by to talk about The Reserve. Bookworm calls him "one of the great living American novelists." In the book, "he uses the 1930's novel of passion and betrayal--with its allied seductions, madness, and adultery--to explore America's class system; the relationships between art, politics ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2008/01/31/bookworm-discusses-russell-banks-reserve/ According to Variety, Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen (of The Lord of the Rings fame) will star in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Theron, who won an Oscar for her role in Monster, will play Mortensen's wife, a small role in which she appears only in the flashback ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2008/01/15/theron-to-play-small-part-in-the-road/ All Things Considered gave a review of Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip during yesterday's show. The novel, which ATC calls a "brilliant and compelling work of fiction," was on the short list for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction. "Set on a remote South Pacific island called Bougainvill, it's narrated by ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/12/28/responding-to-war-in-fact-and-fiction/ We knew it'd be sooner than later, that Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel, The Secret Life of Bees, would get turned into a movie with big-name actors. Variety has confirmed that Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo, and Jennifer Hudson will star in the Fox Searchlight picture, which will begin filming in ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/12/20/queen-latifah-dakota-fanning-to-star-in-kidds-bees/ Can't think of what book to give this holiday season? On today's Brian Lehrer Show, Amy Eddings talks to Dwight Garner of the New York Times Book Review, Susan McHenry of Black Issues Book Review, and Sarah McNally of the McNally Robinson NYC bookstore about some of their recommendations and ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/12/19/last-minute-gifts-for-bookworms/ On KCRW's Design and Architecture (DNA), Frances Anderton speaks with actress and architecture preservationist Diane Keaton and D.J. Waldie, authors of California Romantica, about what they see as the ideal Southern California home: the Romantic Spanish style. "I was a California kid, and we took a lot of trips throughout ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/12/17/californias-romantic-spanish-architecture/ On this morning's Leonard Lopate Show, the authors of America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise talk about nuclear arsenal in Pakistan and the Middle East. According to David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, although the issue is getting some attention now, "it's a little bit too late. The time ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/12/03/islam-and-the-bomb/ On this week's Bookwork, Michael Silverblatt talks to Robert Alter about his book, The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary. From the Bookwork site: "Biblical scholar Robert Alter faces a barrage of questions: What are psalms? Who wrote them? If they are prayers, why does he consider them poems? If ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/11/16/the-poetry-of-psalms/ On this morning's Diane Rehm Show, Rehm talks to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich about the phrase she coined, "well-behaved women seldom make history," which is also the title of Ulrich's new book. Rehm and Ulrich discuss "how different groups have tried to appropriate it, and why certain women make history and ... http://www.earlyink.com/mediabuzz/2007/11/15/girls-who-dont-go-wild/