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4 Bestselling Authors Share Thoughts On Movie Adaptations

Dedicated readers understand the emotional connection with a book you love, and the piece of your soul that is invested long after you turn the final page. Many can relate to a paternalistic instinct of pride or defense when anyone brings up this title. Whether you are ready to effuse…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJuly 31, 2018

BooksToScreen Nonfiction

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ to Premiere on Showtime

Last year we wrote about rock icon Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids, which detailed one of the more infamous times in American rock history and charted the legendary relationship between Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The book was a critical and commercial success for Smith, who has been rumored to…

Joel HigginsAugust 12, 2015

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

As the Screw Turns: Henry James Classic Gets Another Twist

Published in 1898, the Henry James novella, The Turn of the Screw, has spawned dozens of dramatic interpretations, including movies, television films, an opera, a ballet and a Broadway play. The story of a young governess who arrives at a country estate to care for two orphans has always been…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 24, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” Now an Operatic Movie

In Italian, “bel canto” means “beautiful singing.” Readers of Ann Patchett’s 2001 novel, Bel Canto (Harper Perennial) could only imagine the music that is so crucial to its plot. No longer. The romantic thriller now has an operatic soundtrack of classic arias. The new movie version, in wide release Sept. 14,…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 12, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

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

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

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

“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

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

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

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“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

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

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

If you have read The Bookshop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Penelope Fitzgerald, you will want to see the movie to answer some questions: How can a movie portray a book’s delicately described inner states? How can subtle emotions and flitting feelings be shown on the screen? And if you have seen…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 14, 2018

BooksToScreen Children's Books

Meryl Streep Voices “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth”

The week surrounding the 50th anniversary of Earth Day marked the release of an original Apple TV+ animated short based on the Oliver Jeffers children’s book, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth. The New York Times bestseller and TIME Best Book of the Year, written and illustrated…

BookTribApril 23, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction

Your favorite classic holiday movies started as books

Holiday practices such as the Christmas tree, caroling, and exchanging gifts are rooted in traditions that go back generations. But for people of the modern age, there’s a new tradition without which the holiday season would be incomplete: gathering the family around the television and watching our favorite Christmas movies.…

Michael RuscoeDecember 18, 2014

4 Bestselling Authors Share Thoughts On Movie Adaptations

Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ to Premiere on Showtime

As the Screw Turns: Henry James Classic Gets Another Twist

Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” Now an Operatic Movie

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

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

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

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” To Join Netflix

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

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

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

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

Meryl Streep Voices “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth”

Your favorite classic holiday movies started as books

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