Lessons From Cinema: How Scriptwriting Saved My Novel
The author of Amphibian (Ig Publishing, October 2024) contemplates how lessons in screenwriting can be applied to fiction.
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Ten Questions for Jana Larson
“I can’t imagine myself without this book.” —Jana Larson, author of Reel Bay
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Ten Questions for Charles Yu
“I had a substantially different version of this book that just wasn’t working, scrapped it, did that again, and then the third time was a charm.” —Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown
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Reese Witherspoon’s Author Rock Stars, a Profile of Poet Ocean Vuong, and More
Moleskine notebooks offer digital sets; the literary rules of Cervantes and Shakespeare; editor Vivian Lee on nurturing writers of color; and other news.
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Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State Adapted for Film, Kafka Curiosities, and More
Kimiko Hahn elected president of Poetry Society of America; discovery of original German Darkness at Noon manuscript prompts new translation; Daniel Clowes on his career as a graphic novelist; and other news.
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Authors Join Forces Against Turkey’s Social Media Ban, Debate Over Bookstores, and More
British justice secretary sticks to his guns; Karen Russell’s sleep-deprived nation; customers unimpressed by Amazon settlement; and other news.
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Keith Richards’s Children’s Book, Twitter Fiction Festival, and More
Author advocates autonomy for sex workers; Wes Anderson discusses Stefan Zweig; the Irish Grey Gardens; and other news.
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Twenty Facts About Dr. Seuss, Auden's Secret Life of Good Deeds, and More
A six-year-old collects six hundred books for the homeless; Leon Trotsky’s opinion on the Ukraine; a new biography of filmmakers during war; and other news.
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Tom Hanks to Star in Dave Eggers Adaptation, Unpublished James Joyce, and More
Tom Hanks will star in a film adaptation of Dave Eggers’s Hologram For the King; a study at the University of Toronto indicates reading literary fiction encourages an open mind; an unpublished James Joyce collection is due out this year; and other news.
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Pynchon to Collaborate With P. T. Anderson, Pearson to Invest in Nook Media, and More
Pearson will invest almost ninety million dollars in Barnes & Noble's Nook Media; Thomas Pynchon will collaborate with Paul Thomas Anderson on the film version of Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice; Goodreads revealed its most reviewed book in 2012; and other news.
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