Jay’s new novel, Fatal Feast, is now available at your favorite bookstore or online bookseller [av_button label=’Purchase Fatal Feast at Barnes & Noble’ link=’manually,http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fatal-feast-jay-ruud/1120061714′ link_target=’_blank’ color=’green’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’medium’ position=’left’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue84e’ font=’entypo-fontello’] [av_button label=’Purchase Fatal Feast at Amazon’ link=’manually,http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Feast-A-Merlin-Mystery/dp/1432829874/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410550928′ link_target=’_blank’ color=’green’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’medium’ position=’right’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue84e’ font=’entypo-fontello’] Jay will read an excerpt from Fatal… Continue reading Fatal Feast Now Shipping and a Public Reading
Author: Jay Ruud
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: I Go Back To May 1937 by Sharon Olds
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Trivia Question for February 11
On this date in 1963, Sylvia Plath committed suicide. Can you tell me the title of the book for which Plath won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-11/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: The Grudge Match 2014 – Jennifer Aniston & Marion Cotillard
One of the great controversies of this year’s Oscar race is the perceived “snub” of Jennifer Aniston for her performance in the film Cake (which garnered her a Screen Actors’ Guild nomination as well as a Golden Globe nomination for best actress) in favor of the surprise nomination for the Academy Awards’ favorite Frenchwoman Marion… Continue reading Movie Review: The Grudge Match 2014 – Jennifer Aniston & Marion Cotillard
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: The Tyger by William Blake
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Trivia Question for February 4
What do the actors Wallace Beery, Randolph Scott, and Daniel Day-Lewis all have in common? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-4/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: A Most Violent Year by J.C. Chandor
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] If, as Jonathan Swift once wrote, “Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived,” then Abel Morales, protagonist of writer/director, J.C. Chandor’s new film (finally in wide release) A Most Violent Year,… Continue reading Movie Review: A Most Violent Year by J.C. Chandor
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: In Memory of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden
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Trivia Question for January 28
What poet made the statement “Poetry makes nothing happen”? And in what poem did he say it? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-january-21/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating WHIPLASH Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Director Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, though critically admired, did not reach a huge audience upon its release last November, but since its five Oscar nominations it is making the rounds again, and deserves to be seen by… Continue reading Movie Review: Whiplash by Damien Chazelle