Al Newman: 4 books

Are you ready for a story about an eighty-eight foot, seven thousand pound anaconda? No, no, no — don’t shred this yet. Be a Brazilian literary agent or film producer for a moment. Tales of constrictor snakes almost twice that size appear in Brazilian newspapers with sobering regularity. Websites...

Here we go again – another tale of a great American city devastated by nuclear war, Godzilla, the Ebola virus, or natural disaster. In order to be worthy of notice, a new destroy-that-city tale would have to be a cut above its predecessors. The author has done his best to accomplish that here.The...

Giggle E. Goose doesn't know when to be quiet. She giggles in Class, she giggles in the library, she even giggles and talks during movies! Giggle E. Goose needs to be more considerate of others, and the young reader, along with Giggle e. Goose, learns that there is a time for giggling and a time for listening.

It was never just an act. These leading men actually transformed into their on-screen characters—a modus operandi thats revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From method men Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman to multiple Oscar nominees Jack...