On Searching for Honesty in Writing: An Interview with Blake Nelson
Blake Nelson discusses his new book, Boy, letting his characters find their own fates, and possibly, maybe, being just the right amount of famous.
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Posts Tagged: adaptations
Literary Rim Shots: A Chat with John Grisham
John Grisham discusses his advice for young writers, the literary mafia, and why he finally wrote a (literal) beach read.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Julie Buntin
Julie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, the writers and books that influenced it, tackling addiction with compassion, and the magic of teenage girls.
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An Ultimate Illustrated Fantasy Guide of Gilmore Girls Mashups
HOW AWESOME WOULD THESE MASHUPS BE? Oh well. Maybe next year.
...moreFairytales Still Make Our Skin Crawl
Fairytales can be seen as formulaic, but these formulas provide the bones for modern writers to fill in as they please; adaptations of classic fairytales are still making bestseller lists and hitting the box office every few months, showing how versatile these classic tales can be, as Lincoln Michel points out over at the Guardian. The nondescript […]
...moreMake Like Bunnies
BBC One and Netflix are joining forces to produce a four-part miniseries of Watership Down. The new series intends to give the female rabbits a more prevalent role: On the bright side, Aitken did announce the miniseries’ intent to strengthen the roles of the female rabbits, an element of Adams’ original novel that often garners […]
...moreA New Jungle Book
At Bitch, Soleil Ho examines the changing interpretations of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, as seen through the novel’s the many film adaptations over the years.
...moreAaron Sorkin’s Mockingbird
In an announcement that is equal parts completely expected and narrow-eyes-tilted-head inducing, Aaron Sorkin will adapt Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, to be directed by Barlett Sher. Hopefully without Sorkinisms.
...moreElena Ferrante Breaks into Television
Great news for everyone swept up in the recent #ferrantefever (or possibly terrible news for those who loathe book adaptations): Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series will be produced for television. The author herself is reported to be involved in the process.
...moreOld Friends
Upbeat YA protagonists are a far cry from the tortured figures we’re used to watching on television. Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer makes her predictions for Nancy Drew and Anne of Green Gables’s forthcoming return to the small screen: Two iconic characters with sunny auras and relatively straightforward histories are about to be reimagined in the context of today’s […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner
Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she’s working on now.
...moreIn a World…
With so many contemporary young adult novels taking place in dystopian settings, we’re beginning to wonder whether it’s even possible to come of age in a world that isn’t on the brink of collapse. Soon enough, paragon network of teenage melodrama The CW will adapt Little Women to the “dystopic streets of Philadelphia,” thereby robbing […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Producer Jeff Sommerville, director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and the cast of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl discuss their movie that went to Sundance and beyond.
...moreMaking Carrie Comfortable
Carrie is most definitely of the horror genre, and horror is never about being comfortable. Society has changed, but what’s at the core of King’s novel remains as raw and powerful as it was four decades ago: Peer pressure, cliques, ruthless bullying, and being an outsider. To deny these aspects in favor of a more […]
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The New York Comic & Picture-Story Symposium: R. Sikoryak
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City. Presentations vary weekly and include everything from historical topics and technical demonstrations to creators presenting their work. Check out upcoming […]
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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with R. Sikoryak & Kriota Willberg
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
...moreBradbury’s Form Flexibility
There are two Ray Bradbury classics (Something Wicked Comes This Way and The Martian Chronicles) that have been recently adapted into graphic novels and Bradbury is down. The graphic novel illustrations lend themselves well to Bradbury’s prose, and he even went so far as to say that there, “is no difference between a novel and […]
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