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...success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies kicked off a literary land grab, with publishers rushing spin-offs and clones of the quote-unquote original to press. (Note to self: Clone With the Wind? A Room of One's Clone? A-clone-ment?) As for Grahame-Smith, he turned around and sold a novel called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter to a large New York City publisher for a sum rumored to be in the mid - six figures. Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House, once remarked that the most surefire best seller imaginable would be a book called Lincoln's Doctor...
As that evocative image suggests, Grahame-Smith isn't just lucky. He's a lively, fluent writer with a sharp sense of tone and pace. And as in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the mashup is not as arbitrary as it first seems. Vampirism is a metaphor for slavery: like...
Australian boxer Reginald Baker had reason to suspect foul play when he protested his silver medal in the 1908 London Olympics--his opponent's father reportedly refereed the match. South Korean Byun Jong-Il's complaints were less warranted; in 1988 the bruiser lost a match after he was penalized...
Fresh off its first season-opening win since 2007, the Crimson batters didn’t miss a beat against the Hatters, notching two runs in each of the first three innings to take a 6-1 lead that would withstand a late Stetson rally.
After sophomore left-hander Jonah Klees held Stetson off through the eighth inning, and through two outs and two strikes in the ninth, all he had to do was pitch one last strike.