Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police into a feature film.

Yōko Ogawa’s acclaimed surrealist novel—the story of a young woman, struggling to maintain her career as a writer on a island where objects are disappearing, who concocts a plan to hide her endangered editor from the Memory Police—was one of the sleeper hits of 2019, garnering rave reviews, a National Book Award nomination, and an […] The post Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police into a feature film. first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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6 Excellent Books Featuring Libraries or Librarians

What could be better than a book about a library, or featuring a librarian as its main character? Find a book for every library lover. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2020-08-24 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Jake Gyllenhaal will star in an adaptation of writer/editor/Solo cup urinator Dan Mallory’s story.

If you can remember as far back as February 2019, surely you recall Ian Parker’s barn-burner of a New Yorker story about the trail of deception left by book editor turned novelist Dan Mallory, whose authorship of the best-selling thriller The Woman in the Window is by far the least compelling... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Panel Mania: Chasin' The Bird: Charlie Parker in California by Dave Chisholm with Peter Markowski

Dave Chisholm’s stellar graphic biography, 'Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker in California', is a superbly crafted and imaginative record of a legendary two-year period beginning in 1945 during which bebop innovator Charlie Parker traveled to California. In this 6-page excerpt the great tenor... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Double Lives: On Louise Brooks’s “Thirteen Women in Films”

Featured image: Louise Brooks, interviewed in Lulu in Berlin, 1984 ¤ IN 1966, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES AUTHOR and screenwriter Anita Loos drolly paid tribute to one of the cinema’s most iconic brunettes. Loos had first been friendly with Louise Brooks “in California when she was an early-day sex... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

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How Will Public Libraries Adapt To New School Year Norms?

How will public libraries handle being unable to be community centers when their communities are most in need of them? Continue reading at Book Riot

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Eccleston to star in Reynolds TV adaptation

Amanda Reynolds' debut novel Close to Me (Wildfire) is to become a six-episode series for Channel 4 and Viaplay, starring Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Frankfurter Buchmesse Calls for 2020 Film Awards Entries

Eligible books in this year's Frankfurter Buchmesse Film Awards have been published since August 1 of 2019 and entries are made digitally. The post Frankfurter Buchmesse Calls for 2020 Film Awards Entries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it

Trethewey’s memoir is a tribute to a life snuffed out by a brutal man, a fractured judicial system and a patriarchy as old as Methuselah. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder

The new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey is an aching investigation of trauma and art. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Rider launches Classic series featuring Chopra and Frankl

Ebury's Rider imprint is releasing a Classics range this December, publishing new editions of titles by writers including Deepak Chopra, Victor E Frankl and the Dalai Lama. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Daisy Johnson | 'I loved the idea of things, trauma or memory, passing down through the body"

Daisy Johnson’s latest novel revolves around an intense sibling relationship and the horrors that lie within Continue reading at The Bookseller

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How “Memorial Drive” Tries to Make Sense of a Mother’s Murder

Katy Waldman writes about “Memorial Drive,” a new memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who pieces together memories of her mother, who was murdered by Trethewey’s stepfather. Continue reading at New Yorker

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Film pre-empt for new Ishiguro novel

Film company 3000 Pictures has closed a pre-emptive deal for Kazuo Ishiguro's upcoming novel, Klara and the Sun, due to be published by Faber in spring next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Ross' comic novel adapted for online drama

David F Ross' novel The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Vespas is to be adapted for an online production, beginning on 30th July. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Lily James and Dominic West to star in Mitford adaptation The Pursuit of Love

Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love for BBC One and Amazon Studios will star Lily James, Dominic West, Emily Beecham and Andrew Scott, among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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‘The Kissing Booth’ author breaks down why her novel and Netflix film series became runaway successes

‘The Kissing Booth’ started as an online novel and blew up into one of Netflix’s most popular films. Here’s why author Beth Reekles thinks that is. Back when she was just 15, Beth Reekles couldn’t find the kind of YA novel that appealed to her.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company

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Faber scoops graphic novel adaptation of Reynolds' Long Way Down

Faber is to publish a graphic novel adaptation of Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down, with artwork by Danica Novgorodoff. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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“The Inbox Is the New Doorstep,” As Newsletters Evolve, Publishers Adapt Their Tactics

Industry Dive, New York magazine and The New Yorker share tips on boosting open rates, engaging readers and evaluating success in email. The post “The Inbox Is the New Doorstep,” As Newsletters Evolve, Publishers Adapt Their Tactics appeared first on Eddie & Ozzie Awards. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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“The Inbox Is the New Doorstep,” As Newsletters Evolve, Publishers Adapt Their Tactics

Offering publishers direct relationships with their readers, on their own terms, email newsletters remain as vital as ever in the platform age. But a relatively old tool can still be adapted to new purposes, and concurrent with the rise of the self-contained, narrative newsletter, publishers... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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