#Sequels

January 26, 2011

The return of Sherlock Holmes, take two

It seems that Sherlock Holmes is once again set to beat death and, one can assume, any mysteries he may encounter. The first time Holmes presumably entered the after life was in the 1893 tale “The Final Problem” in which author Arthur Conan Doyle had…

January 20, 2011

The Jackal gets Dylan a book deal

Bob Dylan fans wondering what’s taking him so damn long to complete the follow-up to Chronicles: Volume One received something of an answer this week. It appears that, according to this story in Crain’s New York, Dylan’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie (a.k.a. The Jackal), has…

March 14, 2005

Peter Pan II: The Quarterlife Crisis? . . .

The authorized sequel to Peter Pan will come from British author Geraldine McCaughrean , according to a Reuters wire report by Paul Majendie. McCaughrean, who won her third Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year prize in January for Not The End of the World, was…

November 8, 2004

Because Antonio's out of the slammer and looking to make a little scratch this time . . .

Even before the publication of Empire in 2000, the book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri was preceded by rumors that it would “provide a definitive analysis of the new world order. It would be the theoretical bridge between postmodernist academics and a mass movement…