Author humor - Twighlight

Geraldine Brooks, on writing:

I swim in a sea of words.

They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

– Geraldine Brooks.

Recommended reading – Carrie

 

Carrie

By Stephen King.
 
First published 1974.
ISBN 13: 9781416524304
ISBN 10: 1416524304
ASIN: 1416524304
Mass Market Paperback.
 
Description:
 

Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.

 

A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction – Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.

 

Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is ... Carrie.
 
"Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre." – Esquire.
 
“A master storyteller.” – The Los Angeles Times.
 
“Guaranteed to chill you.” – The New York Times.
 
"Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." – Chicago Tribune.

Born on this day – William Cullen Bryant:

William Cullen Bryant

Writer

November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878

Credits:

Poems:

A Forest Hymn; A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal; A Song of Pitcairn's Island; A Summer Ramble; A Walk at Sunset; A Winter Piece; After a Tempest; An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers; An Indian Story; Autumn Woods; Blessed are they that Mourn; Green River; Hymn of the City; Hymn of the Waldenses; Hymn to Death; Hymn to the North Star; I broke the spell that held me long; I cannot forget with what fervid devotion; Innocent child and snow-white flower; Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood; June; Lines on Revisiting the Country; March; Monument Mountain; No Man knoweth his Sepulchre; Ode for an Agricultural Celebration; Oh fairest of the rural maids; Rizpah; Romero; Scene on the Banks of the Hudson; Song of Marion's Men; Song of the Greek Amazon; Song of the Stars; Song.—Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow; Song—Dost thou idly ask to hear; Sonnet.—Midsummer; Sonnet.—Mutation; Sonnet.—November; Sonnet.—October; Sonnet.—To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe; Sonnet.—William Tell; Spring in Town; Summer Wind; Thanatopsis; The African Chief; The Ages; The Arctic Lover; The Burial-place. A Fragment; The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus; The Damsel of Peru; The Death of the Flowers; The Disinterred Warrior; The Evening Wind; The Gladness of Nature; The Greek Boy; The Greek Partisan; The Hunter's Serenade; The Hurricane; The Indian Girl's Lament; The Journey of Life; The Lapse of Time; The Massacre at Scio; The Murdered Traveller; The New Moon; The Old Man's Funeral; The Past; The Prairies; The Rivulet; The Skies; The Twenty-second of December; The Two Graves; The West Wind; The Yellow Violet; To a Cloud; To a Musquito; To a Waterfowl; To the fringed Gentian; To the River Arve; Upon the mountain's distant head; When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam.

Born on this day – Ford Sterling:

Ford Sterling

Actor

Comedian

November 3, 1883 – October 13, 1939

Born on this day – Frederick Nebel:

Frederick Nebel

Writer

November 3, 1903 - May 3, 1967

Credits – book and short story titles:

A Couple of Quick Ones; A Gambler Passes; A Girl Must be Sure; A Grudge is a Grudge; A Gun in the Dark; A Man Must Fight; A Man With Sand; A Truck-Load of Diamonds; Accidental Night; All the Answers; All the Good Times; All the Way Back; Alley Rat; Alone; And There Was Murder; Any Boy Can Be President; Appointment in Rio; Ask Me No Questions; At the End of the Alley Was a Door; Back in Town; Backwash; Bad News; Be Your Age; Beat the Rap; Behind the Eight Ball; Behind the Shield; Best of Luck; Bet Your Life; Big Moon Lake Patrol; Birdmen of Borneo; Birdmen of Passage; Blood in the Dark; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 1; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 2; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 3; Bloodhounds of the Sky, Part 4; Bolt From the Blue; Boomerang Barnes; Brood of the Wind; But Not the End; Cache Law; Call It Justice; Case Against Women; Case for Innocence; Chains of Darkness; Champions Also Die; Chance is an Enemy; Change of Heart; Chechako Trail; China Silk; Claws of the Jungle; Coast of Hate; Cops Are Dumb; Courage of the Strong; Crack Down; Crate Crashers; Dance No More; Dead Man’s Folly; Death After Murder; Death Alley; Death for a Dago; Death in the Raw; Death’s Not Enough; Deep Red; Defiance Valley: The Complete Northwoods Stories of Frederick Nebel, Vol. 1; Defiance Valley; Die-Hard; Dog Eat Dog; Doom Drums; Doom Lagoon; Doors in the Dark; Doorway to Danger; Dreams Are Real; Dumb Luck; East of Big Moon; Emeralds of Shade; Empire of the Devil & Other Tales of Adventure; Empire of the Devil; Fan Dance; Far North of Chilkoot; Farewell to Crime; Fifty Roads to Town; Flame Island & Other Tales of Adventure; Flame Island; Fly-by-Night; Flyers of Fortune; Flying Freebooters; Flying Freebooters; Flying Jade; Forbidden Affair; Forbidden River: Five Novels of Conflict in the Frozen North; Forbidden River; Get a Load of This; Ghost of a Chance; Give Me This; Graft; Grain to Grain; Grampa and the Spirit of ’76; Guess Again, Lady; Gun Thunder; Guns Down; Hands; Hard to Take; He Could Take It; He Was a Swell Guy; Heir to Murder; Hell Couldn’t Stop Him; Hell on Wheels; Hell to Pay; Hell’s Back Door; Hell’s Pay Check; Hell-Smoke; High Jinks as Sky High; Hot Spot; Hounds of Darkness; If You Can Take It; Isle of Lost Men; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 1; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 2; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 3; Isle of Lost Wings, Part 4; It Takes a Man; It’s a Gag; It’s the Live Ones That Talk; Junk; Just Leave Everything to Me; Kick Back; Killed After 10 P.M.; Killer at Large; King of the Yukon; Last Question; Law Alone; Law of the Trapline; Law Without Law; Lay Down the Law; Lead Pearls; Lead Poison; Leave It to Cardigan; Magnificent Gesture; Make Mine Murder; Man-Crazy; Mask of Murder; Me–Cardigan; Moment in the Dark; Money, Money; Murder & Co; Murder á la Carte; Murder by Ballot; Murder by Mail; Murder Cure; Murder Off Stage; Murder on the Loose; Murder Won’t Wait; Muscle Man; Needle in a Haystack; Never Sing Again; New Guns for Old; Night Shift on the Lunchwagon; Nightfall; No Hard Feelings; No Kid Stuff; No Shadow of Doubt; No Time for Tears; No Time to Kill; Nobody’s Fall Guy; Not a Care in the World; Not So Tough; Nothing to Lose; Old Put’s Camp Ground; One Cold Night; Out of Stir; Outcast Ships; Pardon My Murder; Patrol of Courage; Pearls Are Tears; Phantom Fingers; Pity the Poor Underdog; Pound for Pound; Protecting Monica; Proud Eagles; Proud Youth; Raw Courage; Raw Law: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 1; Raw Law; Read ‘Em and Weep; Rebound; Red Hot; Red Night; Red Pavement; Red Web; Remember the Good Times; Remember the Music; Rendezvous With Treason; Reprieve at Eleven; Return of the Exile; Rogue’s Ransom; Roses in the Rain; Rough Justice; Rough Reform; Round Trip; Save Your Tears; Scandal in St. Louis; Scoundrel’s Choice; Scrambled Murder; Shake-Down: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 2; Shake-Down; Shake-Up; Six Deadly Dames; Six Diamonds and a Dick; Sky Blazers & Other Tales of High-Flying Adventure; Sky Blazers; Sky Scrappers; Sky Spoilers; Sky-High Nerve; Skyrocket Scott; Sky-Trap; Sleepers East; Soda-Pop Mary; Some Die Young; Some Grudge; Something Like a Dream; Something to Remember; Somewhere East of Singapore; Song and Dance; South of Saigon; Spades Are Spades; Spare the Rod; Stand Up and Fight; Strangle Hold; Street Wolf: The Black Mask Stories of Frederick Nebel; Street Wolf; Stuart of the City Patrol; Sun Dog Gold; Sunken Sovereigns; Take It and Like It; Tell It to the Mounted; Ten Men From Chicago; That’s Kennedy; The Adventures of Cardigan: A Dime Detective Book; The Bars Between; The Big World; The Black Fox Skin; The Bluff That Worked; The Brave Tradition; The Breaks of the Game; The Bribe; The Candy Killer; The Come Back; The Complete Air Adventures of Gales & McGill, Vol. 1; The Complete Air Adventures of Gales & McGill, Vol. 2;The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 2; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 3; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Vol. 4; The Complete Casebook of Cardigan: Vol. 1; The Complete Casebook of Sgt. Brinkhaus; The Creed of Sergeant Bone; The Crimson Diamond; The Crimson Fist; The Crooked Spot; The Curse of Cardigan; The Darjeeling Diamond; The Dead Die Twice; The Dead Don’t Die; The Devil’s Double-Cross; The Devil’s Slouch; The Devil’s Souvenir; The Drifting Kid Strikes; The Fifth Question; The Firelight Patrol; The Frontier of Vengeance; The Girl on the Big Drum; The Girl With the Blonde; The Grand Manner; The Great Big-Hearted People; The Green Widow; The Hard Way; The Hardy Fly Hard; The Hell-Bender; The Human Side; The Island Nobody Knows; The Kill; The Law Dies Hard; The Law Laughs Last; The Legend; The Lemon; The Makings of Command; The Man Who Couldn’t Spell; The Man Who Knew; The Man Who Lost Everything; The Man Who Promised Not to Tell; The Man You Love; The Missing Car; The Mystery at Pier 7; The Penalty of the Code; The Pinch; The Quick or the Dead; The Real Thing; The Red-Hots; The Secret Vanity; The Seed of Caution; The Shanghai Jest; The Sign of Murder; The Simple Life; The Spot and the Lady; The Tailormade Clue; The Things You Say; The Trail to Caribou; The Valley of Wanted Men; The Web; The Wheel; The White Peril; The Woman in Shadow; The Woman Who Changed Her Mind; The X-Circle; The Yukon Trail; Too Hot to Handle; Too Young to Die: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 3; Too Young to Die; Tough As Nails: The Complete Casebook of Donahue; Tough Treatment; Trade Law; Try It My Way; Unfinished Marriage; Unfriendly Call; Wait Till I’m On My Feet; Wanted: An Accomplice; Wayward Journey; Weekend to Kill; Welcome Home, Soldier; When the Time Comes; Whispers of Death; White Villa in Rio; Wind Patrol; Wings of Mercy; Winter Kill: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Vol. 4; Winter Kill; Wise Guy; With Benefit of Law; Wolves of Dismay; Wolves of the Wind: Sky High Tales of Adventure; Wolves of the Wind; Woman at Bay; Yangtze Yellow; You Can Take So Much; You Can’t Have Everything; You Go Your Way; You Got to Think of the Kids; You Haven’t Changed a Bit; You Know How Women Are; You Owe It to Yourself; Your Face Looks Familiar. 

Movie and television adaptations:

TV Teatro (1958); M Squad (1958); The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Bribe (1949); A Shot in the Dark (1941); Sleepers West (1941); Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939); Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939); Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939); Torchy Gets Her Man (1938); Torchy Blane in Panama (1938); The Adventurous Blonde (1937); Fifty Roads to Town (1937); Smart Blonde (1937); Sleepers East (1934); Ships of the Night (1928); Isle of Lost Men (1928).

Born on this day – Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson

Actor

November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003

Credits:

10 to Midnight (1983); 100 Years of the Hollywood Western (1994); 4 for Texas (1963); 6 Bullets to Hell (2016); A Thunder of Drums (1961); Act of Vengeance (1986); Adventures in Paradise (1961); AFI Life Achievement Award (1973–1978); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962); All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); All-Star Party for Joan Collins (1987); America's All-Star Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1989); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); An All-Star Tribute to John Wayne (1976); Apache (1954); Assassination (1987); Backstage in Hollywood (1975); Bad Men of the West (1974); Battle of the Bulge (1965); Battle Zone (1952); Biff Baker, U.S.A. (1952); Big House, U.S.A. (1955); Biography (2002); Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952); Bonanza (1964); Borderline (1980); Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II (1997); Breakheart Pass (1975); Breakout (1975); Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018); Bronson: St. Ives (1976); Cabo Blanco (1980); Caboblanco: Introduction and Tony Curtis' Parting Words (1998); Cain's Hundred (1961); Cannes Film Festival (1991); Captain Eo Grand Opening (1986); Catastrophe: No Safe Place (1980); Cavalcade of America (1955); CBS Mornings (1993); Charles Bronson, Hollywood's Lone Wolf (2020); Chato's Land (1972); Chevron Theatre (1953); Chino (1973); Ciao! John Crowther (2023); Cinema mil (2005); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Cinescope aujourd hui... (1975); Classified X (2007); Cold Sweat (1970); Colt .45 (1957); Combat! (1965); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Crime Wave (1953); Crusader (1955–1956); Death Hunt (1981); Death Wish (1974); Death Wish 3 (1986); Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987); Death Wish II (1982); Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994); Diplomatic Courier (1952); Donato and Daughter (1993); Donny B: The Original King of Daytime (2010); Downtown Crackdown: Mask of Death (2011); Dr. Kildare (1963); Drum Beat (1954); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014); Empire (1962–1963); Ennio (2021); Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s (2012); Evocator (2009); Family of Cops (1995); Family of Cops II: Breach of Faith (1997); Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999); Farewell, Friend (1968); Film '76 (1976); Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012); Fireside Theatre (1949); Four Star Playhouse (1953); From Noon Till Three (1976); Gang War (1958); General Electric Theater (1955–1961); Good Morning America (1979); Guns for San Sebastian (1968); Guns of Diablo (1964); Gunsmoke (1956–1958); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Hard Times (1975); Have Camera Will Travel (1956); Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963); Hennesey (1960–1961); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hey, Jeannie! (1957); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Insider (2021); Hollywood Remembers Lee Marvin (2000); House of Wax (1953); How the West Was Lost (2008); I Am Steve McQueen (2014); Jack Taylor of Beverly Hills (2007); Jeanne Wolf with... (1974–1979); Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1995); Jubal (1956); Kain's Quest (2015–2017); Kid Galahad (1962); Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989); La classe américaine (1993); La Marató 2005 (2005); La nuit des Césars (1984); Laramie (1960–1961); Les mille et une vies de Yul Brynner (2020); Live & Kicking (1996); London Affair (1970); Love and Bullets (1979); Luke and the Tenderfoot (1955); Lux Video Theatre (1955); M Squad (1958); Machine-Gun Kelly (1958); Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012); Man with a Camera (1958–1960); Master of the World (1961); Medic (1954–1956); Messenger of Death (1988); Miss Sadie Thompson (1953); Mr. Majestyk (1974); Murphy's Law (1986); My Six Convicts (1952); Never So Few (1959); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Ninja the Mission Force (2012); Off Limits (1952); Once Upon a Time in the West (1968); One Step Beyond (1961); Operation Dirty Dozen (1967); Pancho Villa: Myth or Man? (1968); Pat and Mike (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Public Defender (1955); Quickies, les questions brèves d'e-penser (2015); Raid on Entebbe (1976); Rawhide (1965); Real Heroes (1981); Red Skies of Montana (1952); Red Sun (1971); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957); Rider on the Rain (1970); Riding Shotgun (1954); Riverboat (1960); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021); Run of the Arrow (1957); San Sebastian 1746 in 1968 (1968); Sauna (2008); Schlitz Playhouse (1953); Shooting Violent City (2001); Showdown at Boot Hill (1958); Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990); Someone Behind the Door (1971); Spanish Western (2014); St. Ives (1976); Stage 7 (1955); Strange Stories (1956); Studio 57 (1957); Studio One (1957); Sugarfoot (1958); Suspicion (1957); Tales of Wells Fargo (1958); Target Zero (1955); Telecinema (1976); Telefon (1977); Telephone Time (1956); Tennessee Champ (1954); Terror Island Overkill: Blutgericht in Todeszone 13 (2013); The 35th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1978); The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974); The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976); The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004); The American Ireland Fund Annual Tribute a Salute to Gene Kelly (1990); The Aquanauts (1960); The Big Sur (1965); The Big Valley (1965); The Bob Newhart Show (1962); The Bull of the West (1972); The City of Gods (1968); The Clown (1953); The Court of Last Resort (1958); The Cowboy (2016); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years - Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The Dirty Dozen (1967); The Doctor (1952–1953); The Evil That Men Do (1984); The F.B.I. (1966); The Fugitive (1967); The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014); The Great Escape (1963); The Indian Runner (1991); The Islanders (1960); The Joe Palooka Story (1954); The Legend of Jesse James (1966); The Loretta Young Show (1961); The Magnificent Seven (1960); The Making of Cabo Blanco (1980); The Making of 'Death Wish 3' (1985); The Man Behind the Badge (1955); The Marrying Kind (1952); The Mechanic (1972); The Merv Griffin Show (1972); The Mike Douglas Show (1976); The Millionaire (1957); The Mob (1951); The New Breed (1961); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The People Against O'Hara (1951); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1955); The Red Skelton Hour (1952); The Roy Rogers Show (1952); The Sandpiper (1965); The Sea Wolf (1993); The Sheriff of Cochise (1957); The Stone Killer (1973); The Suppressor (2011); The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964); The Twilight Zone (1961); The Untouchables (1962); The Valachi Papers (1972); The Virginian (1965–1967); The Walter Winchell File (1958); The White Buffalo (1977); The Wild West (1979); This Property Is Condemned (1966); Those Whiting Girls (1957); Today (1985); Torpedo Alley (1952); Treasury Men in Action (1954–1955); U.S. Marshal (1959); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971); Vacation Playhouse (1965); Valachi: The Violent Era (1972); Vera Cruz (1954); Villa Rides (1968); Violent City (1970); Warner Brothers Presents (1956); Waterfront (1954–1956); When Hell Broke Loose (1958); Wire Service (1956); X-15 (1961); Yancy Derringer (1959); Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991); You Can't Win 'Em All (1970); You Don't Say (1964); Your First Impression (1962); You're in the Navy Now (1951).