Also Grisly: Poets’ Photos Go On Display
Over the transom.
1. From Simon & Schuster:
Before J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer or Suzanne Collins, there was R.L. Stine. Stine invented the teen horror genre with Fear Street, the bestselling teen horror series of all time. He also changed the face of children’s publishing with the mega-successful Goosebumps series that went on to become a worldwide multimedia phenomenon and which Guinness World Records cites as the Best-Selling Children’s Books of all time. The Goosebumps series celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012.
Now Stine writes for the adult fans of Fear Street and Goosebumps – those twenty- and thirtysomethings with RED RAIN: A Novel, delivering a terrifying new adult horror novel centered on a town in the grip of a sinister revolt.
Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island, Cape Le Chat Noir, off the coast of South Carolina. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction and Lea barely escapes with her life. She has an overwhelming desire to help the devastated island. In the storm’s aftermath, she discovers orphaned twin boys and impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful. Then strange things begin to happen. No one could have anticipated the twins’ true nature . . . how could they?
Stine will be on book tour to Chicago on Thursday, November 8, 2012, speaking at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville at 7 p.m.
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“The horror is grisly,” the AP’s Rob Merrill writes. “Stine likes food metaphors to convey the gore: Windpipes ripped out of throats like ‘some kind of long pasta noodle.’ A young woman holding her intestines as ‘a gusher of pink and yellow sausage’ oozes through her fingers.”
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I’m in Chicago. I should have a steak, right? Heading over to Gene and Georgetti.
— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) November 8, 2012
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2. From the Poetry Foundation:
Since editor Harriet Monroe founded Poetry in 1912, the magazine has requested that contributors provide photos of themselves. One hundred years later, we’ve amassed quite a collection.
Until November 29, Chicagoans can view hand-selected poet photos from Poetry’s centennial archive by visiting our current exhibition, “Poet Photos: From the Archives of Poetry Magazine.” The exhibit allows an inside look at these poets’ personal lives, eccentricities and, occasionally, their vanity.
A preview of the exhibition is now available online – visit our Poet Photos Portfolio, and you’ll find early photos of Louise Gluck, Ruth Stone, Robert Pinsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Creeley, Erica Jong and more – even a portrait of Yvor Winters’s prized Airedale! Informative notes accompany these online photos.
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Posted on November 8, 2012