The book is inspired by "a series of long-buried true stories about Detroit during the Prohibition era," Sepetys tells PEOPLE ...

A desert and a world that seems like our own form the backdrop of The Book of Sand, the sci-fi debut of bestselling author Mo Hayder (Birdman, The Treatment). Sadly, Hayder passed away last year, but ...

Lesa Shaul is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama, but she grew up on Sand Mountain. Her book, "Midnight Cry," is a lively true crime study, thoroughly researched in public ...

In re-imagining Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' mysterious and engaging short story "The Book of Sand" (from his collection of the same name), Lisa Ramirez--one of the Bay Area's most talented ...

Adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges The Book of Sand. The film is built from stop motion photographs to create a living stop motion. The film is part of a project produced by The Everyman Theatre in ...

Oakland Theater Project’s 2022 Season culminates with the <>World Premiere of <>Book of Sand (a fairytale) from OTP Associate Artistic Director and award-winning playwright <>Lisa Ramirez. Based on ...

His opera After Life, which came to the 2012 Melbourne Festival, had live singers interacting with life-size characters on screen. Two years ago, his “occult-mystery film-opera” Sunken Garden featured ...

Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges was a master at exploring fantastic scenarios with scholarly precision — as if they were factual — and usually ones with complex philosophical ...

A Green Country family recently published an inspirational true story about a special-needs teen struggling with the loss of her friend. The family hopes the children's book will help others going ...