BearManor Media News — q&a

10 Questions and Answers with Mark Arnold, author of Unconditionally Mad1. Why a MAD Magazine book now?My publisher, Ben Ohmart, has been bugging me for a history of MAD book for almost a decade. After the success of "If You're Cracked, You're Happy, Part Won and Part Too" it seemed inevitable that I would eventually tackle America's foremost humor magazine for the past 70 years. 2. Why didn't you want to write it?I didn't want to do it for a number of reasons. I knew it would be a massive undertaking, and in the end, I was right. I also...

Q&A with Aubrey Malone, author of She Married the Boss Q. Could you tell me a little about your new book She Married the Boss?A. It’s a multi-biography of over twenty women who married directors. Sometimes they married more than one. And sometimes the directors in question married more than one woman.Q. Sounds interesting. Why did you choose this theme?A. Writers are always looking for original ideas for books, aren’t they? So many of them come out every year, this isn’t easy. Nearly everything has been covered. You have to discover “new wine in old bottles.”Q. How did this particular...

10 Questions for Trav S.D. regarding the Marx Brothers Miscellany Who were the Marx Brothers? – The Marx Brothers were the most critically acclaimed and successful stage and screen comedy team in history. Their period of activity lasted from roughly 1905, when two of the five brothers started out in vaudeville, through 1977, when the most famous of the brothers (Groucho) passed away. The members were Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo (who quit in 1918), and Zeppo (who replaced Gummo and performed with the team through 1933). The brothers starred in movies, radio, television, and on Broadway. Two of them also...

Q&A with the author of An Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne, Nick DiMartino 1. What in the world led you to read all of Jules Verne? It was an accident. I like exploring an author in depth. I was a bookseller on the U. W. campus for fifty years. My top priority activity is reading. Lately I’d been amassing the works of Henry James, Balzac, Melville, Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, thinking I’d spend my retirement reading the great respectable literary “heavies” I’d avoided all my life. Instead, I opened an unread advance of a Verne novel I’d never heard...

Q & A With Sean Crose, Author of Catholic Girl: The Life and Times of Mabel Normand How did you come about the idea to write Catholic Girl?Believe it or not my original intention was to write about Charlie Chaplin, who Mabel was a -co-star, mentor, and director of – even though she was younger than he was. As time moved on during my research, however, I became more interested in Mabel than Charlie. Finally, I reached out to Mabel’s estate for information and her nephew Stephen (who operates the estate) put the idea in my head to write a...