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Which novels do you fantasize about seeing on-screen?

Jul 31, 2008
Today I close out IFC.com's List Month with ten works of fiction I'd like to see adapted for film. The list leans toward the contemporary and is by no means comprehensive; among other things, I intended to mention James Hynes' "Queen of the Jungle" (...

My favorite books, and other highlights, of 2009

Dec 11, 2009
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, given how steeped my childhood was in Bible stories, that R. Crumb’s graphic rendition of Genesis infiltrated my thoughts the way that it did, but I was. Because his book was the one that affected me the most...

The hopeful cover of Editor & Publisher

Dec 11, 2009
“Snagged this from my managing editor’s desk,” said a friend who works at a newspaper, following the announcement that Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews will be shuttered. “The teaser in the upper right… Oof.”

LaValle at The Millions

Dec 11, 2009
The talented Victor LaValle, whose Big Machine I want to write about at length, discusses his favorite books of the year.

Highsmith in NYC

Dec 11, 2009
Joan Schenkar retraces Patricia Highsmith’s footsteps — actual and fictional — through Greenwich Village.

Recession cooking with MFK Fisher

Dec 10, 2009
My only complaint about MFK Fisher’s delightfully bossy How to Cook a Wolf, a hard-times cooking manual first published in 1942, is that it has given me something new to worry about doing wrong: boiling water. “It can be said,” Fisher admits, “with...

Which novels do you fantasize about seeing on-screen?





Martha T.
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Posted 5/8/08 1:05 AM