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Big Little Secrets Set Hulu Ablaze with Premiere of “Little Fires Everywhere”

Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling novel, Little Fires Everywhere, starts with a house on fire. So does Hulu’s eight-episode series by the same name, which premieres today, March 18. The arsonist isn’t revealed until the ends of both, and in between are tangled webs of non-stop drama. Reese Witherspoon’s production company,…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 18, 2020

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Blood on His Tiny, Tiny Hands: Meet MacTrump

As the tides turn and impeachment inquiries fill the news, MacTrump arrives at just the right time. Between the whole Ukraine mess and embarrassing moments on the world stage, a potential Shakespearean fall from grace is ripe for parody. Power struggles, bitter rivalries, betrayals and a dash of comic relief…

BookTribOctober 2, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt Takes Flight in New Film

Since Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel The Goldfinch (Little Brown & Co.) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014, no one has been able to forget it. Now, it is migrating to the big screen with an adaptation by John Crowley, which opens Sept.13. This is an ambitious undertaking. How…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 26, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America:” Alternative History Turned HBO Miniseries

Scheduled to debut today as an HBO miniseries, Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America is oddly and powerfully prescient, published, as it was, in 2004. The plot turns on how, instead of electing Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term as president, America elects Charles A. Lindbergh, a hugely…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 16, 2020

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

From TV to Reality: “Marriage Vacation”

Any true "Younger" fan out there already knows that season six is coming out soon (June 12) and is counting down the days. For those of you who haven't watched "Younger," you're missing out. This show is pure fun, the perfect comedic drama to distract you from your own office…

Rebecca ProulxJune 5, 2019

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Where’d You Go, Bernadette – to the Big Screen, That’s Where

There’s nothing like a feel-good laugh-fest in a cool theater on a hot summer day. The new film version of Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Little, Brown and Company) by Maria Semple is on track to become a smash hit. It’s a wry, comic tale of an agoraphobic mother, her tech-genius…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 9, 2019

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Alice, Dorothy and Wendy Collide in “Cheshire Crossing”

In an exhilarating convergence of literature’s best female heroines, Cheshire Crossing (Ten Speed Press) is not your mother’s storybook. Sure, it includes romps through Wonderland, Oz and Neverland, but the characters are older and scrappier than ever. Now teenagers, Alice, Dorothy and Wendy have been carted off to asylum after…

Lee PelletierAugust 1, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Two New Movies Prove Appeal of “Little Women”

What can a 150-year-old novel still offer up to readers in the digitally enhanced 21st century? As proof of the timeless appeal of Little Women (Bantam Classics), the new movie in theaters Sept. 28 is the 7th film version of the classic. It’s a modern retelling: Newbie director Clare Niederpruem brings Meg,…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 27, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Book-To-Film Adaptations Coming Your Way This Fall

Autumn days beg for pumpkin, apple cider and of course books! There are an increasing number of book-to-film adaptations. Roxanne recommends reading these books before you hit the cinema this Fall! To purchase any of the books in this episode, please visit RJ Julia Booksellers Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and…

Just The Right Book PodcastOctober 26, 2018

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“If Beale Street Could Talk” Still Delivers On Screen

James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage) was published in 1974, but its themes are just as fresh, and as tragic, today. And the new movie that’s been made from it, if anything, shows that our issues with race haven’t progressed very far at all. Image courtesy of amazon…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 17, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

What can a novel written in the early 1940s teach us today about national identity? Plenty, especially when a German director like Christian Petzold portrays it as a kaleidoscope of time, place, person and politics. “Transit,” his adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel (New York Review Books Classics) of the same…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 14, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” To Join Netflix

It’s not often Nobel Prize-winning literature gets the cinematic treatment, but Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial) by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, into a series. It will be the first film version of the novel. Since its publication in Spanish in…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 12, 2019

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

New Star Wars Film Coinciding With Eight New Books

Star Wars was introduced 41 years ago, in 1977, and has been a staple of American pop culture since. Not only are the films an iconic slice of Americana, so are the many books written on or about the film and its characters. The new Star Wars film, Solo, is coming…

BookTribApril 8, 2018

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Reese and Kerry to Adapt ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ for TV

It’s been a little over a year since we obsessed over Reese Witherspoon's adaption of Big Little Lies, and now the star is bringing a second suburban drama to the small screen. Last week, Witherspoon announced that, in partnership with Scandal’s Kerry Washington, she will develop Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere into a television…

BookTribApril 8, 2018

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Harwood-Jones’ Journey Filled With LGBTQ Life Lessons

June was chosen as Pride Month to celebrate and commemorate the Stonewall riots in 1969, when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, and sparked what turned into days of clashes and riots between the police, and members of the LGBTQAI community. The riots are largely considered to…

BookTribJune 8, 2018

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Anxiety, Representation, and Fearless Women

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. What does it mean to be a fearless woman? Authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Robyn Bennis have a few ideas. In their recent works, both authors have explored what it means to be a trailblazer in male-dominated arenas. Kowal’s Lady Astronaut duology (The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky)…

BookishAugust 1, 2018

Big Little Secrets Set Hulu Ablaze with Premiere of “Little Fires Everywhere”

Blood on His Tiny, Tiny Hands: Meet MacTrump

“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt Takes Flight in New Film

Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America:” Alternative History Turned HBO Miniseries

From TV to Reality: “Marriage Vacation”

Where’d You Go, Bernadette – to the Big Screen, That’s Where

Alice, Dorothy and Wendy Collide in “Cheshire Crossing”

Two New Movies Prove Appeal of “Little Women”

Book-To-Film Adaptations Coming Your Way This Fall

“If Beale Street Could Talk” Still Delivers On Screen

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” To Join Netflix

New Star Wars Film Coinciding With Eight New Books

Reese and Kerry to Adapt ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ for TV

Harwood-Jones’ Journey Filled With LGBTQ Life Lessons

Anxiety, Representation, and Fearless Women

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