During its short life so far, NBC's splendid fairy tale action-adventure "Grimm" — one of the network's few nonfootball successes — has been stranded on Friday nights.
Sebastian Faulks's "novel in five parts" isn't really a novel — any more than Gertrude Stein's "Three Lives" is a novel or, indeed, the book that inspired Stein's, Flaubert's splendid "Three Tales".
Harrod tells the complicated tale with a splendid mixture of imagination and, where required, judgment.
I was one of two of his authors shortlisted, the other being Dave Goulson, writer of the splendid A Sting in the Tale.
In this splendid one-hour play, a tall tale set in Appalachia, a father embarks on an Odysseus-like trek to attend his daughter's wedding.
Finally, I can't talk about Asian American novels without shouting out Alexander Chee's splendid The Queen of the Night, the epic tale of an opera singer in 19th-century France.
Finally, I can't talk about Asian American novels without shouting out Alexander Chee's splendid The Queen of the Night, the epic tale of an opera singer in 19th-century France.
This dynamite collection of stories has it all — Chile and Belgium, exile and homecomings, Pinochet and Simon and Garfunkel — but what I love most about the tales is their strangeness, their intelligence, and their splendid honesty.
It's the first Bridge Project effort, a UK Old Vicc)/US (BAM) intermingling of splendid actors and repertory, a caravan of itinerant talents and projects (Next up: Winter's Tale).
