What, your favorite novel hasn’t been adapted into film form? Maybe it’s impossible. “With the release and critical success of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, an adaptation of a novel once considered impossible to film, what better time to look into the process of adaptation. Most movies these days are based on literary sources.…

The Claw of the Conciliator has been blogging about Nick Cave and his Bible readin’ here, here and here. Punk Rock, Black Coats and The Bible. Good Stuff. Thank you mighty Claw. Two reasons to read that good old book, according to Nick Cave: 1. You like Blood and Gore “I had a burgeoning interest…

One of my wife’s favorite books from her childhood is Tubby the Tuba. Googling away on it we found this great stop-motion animation adaptation of it. Via This is not my blog.

Of the many things I have thought about while reading The Bible one thing I never wondered is this: what would bread taste like cooked over my flaming poo? But now I must know. What does it taste like? “Like moldy bean sprouts,” says Rev. Rayner Hesse Jr., an Episcopal priest. “You don’t want to…

I feel bad enough for never having read Stevenson’s Kidnapped after the sister-in-law lent it to me five years ago. Now I feel worse. A total of 25,000 free copies of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped are to be distributed throughout Edinburgh next month. The books will be handed out free to everyone from coffee shops…