This week in films that I just…I just can’t: the first trailer for Ron Howard’s adaptation of J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is now live. Based on Vance’s bestselling memoir about growing up in, and then escaping from, an abandoned Rust Belt town ravaged by poverty and drug addiction, the film looks to have a pair […] The post Glenn Close is unrecognizable in the first trailer for Hillbilly Elegy. first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-14 15:41:25 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#hillbilly elegy
#ron howard
#bestselling memoir
#drug addiction
#literary hub
#memoir
This week in films that I just…I just can’t: the first trailer for Ron Howard’s adaptation of J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is now live. Based on Vance’s bestselling memoir about growing up in, and then escaping from, an abandoned Rust Belt town ravaged by poverty and drug addiction, the film... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-10-14 15:41:25 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hillbilly elegy
#ron howard
#bestselling memoir
#drug addiction
#literary hub
#memoir
The parts of J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir that didn’t make it into the movie. Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2020-11-24 17:07:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ron howard
#controversial memoir
#memoir
My first novel was released within six months of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s memoir of Appalachian roots and a youth spent in a Rust Belt community with a dearth of jobs and resources. Vance’s book came out just before the 2016 election; mine was released just after. Donald Trump’s victory had... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-11-17 12:01:45 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hillbilly elegy
#electric literature
#memoir
#first novel
Investor J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” has launched a venture capital firm based in Cincinnati, according to multiple media reports. The Ohio native’s firm, Narya Capital, will invest in startups in the Raleigh, Durham and cities such as Salt Lake City,... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-01-10 12:20:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hillbilly elegy
#marc andreessen
#eric schmidt
#memoir
The highly anticipated film adaptation of J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has its first star: six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams. The actress is the first announced cast member of the planned Netflix film, which will be directed by Ron Howard, Variety reported Thursday. Screenwriter... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ron howard
#film adaptation
#hillbilly elegy
Glenn Close scored her seventh Oscar nomination for her lead performance in “The Wife.” The Sony Pictures Classics drama sees Close playing Joan Castleman, the accommodating spouse of an acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning author. With six prior nods, for “The World According to Garp” (1982), “The Big... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The business of publishing and selling political-themed books moved front and center with the dawn of the Trump era in Washington. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#hillbilly elegy
#trump era
Vroman’s Bookstore will close its Hastings Ranch Vroman’s location in Pasadena on May 12, saying that it was “unable to reach an agreement with the property owner” due to “increasing occupancy expenses.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore
Its operators made a newsroom announcement, but the outcome is uncertain since the owner has signaled it wants the magazine to endure. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-03-14 21:44:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#sports illustrated
#print edition
Although a major book ban bill is close to passage in Utah, another bill meant to end book bans by the state has hit the legislature. Here's what is in both bills–and what you can do. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-02-27 16:05:13 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#major book
Without even the slightest sentimentality about it, Laird Hunt's new book, 'Float Up, Sing Down,' provides an elegy for a lost generation. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-02-07 17:33:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#laird hunt
Hybrid publisher Wonderwell has shut down its publishing operations, and on February 1 will launch a new imprint, Wonderwell Press, as part of the Greenleaf Book Group. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#publishing operations
The organization, which has had offices in the New York City metro area since its formation in 1900, confirmed this week that it will become a “permanently remote organization” at the end of February. CEO Allison Hill said that the closure “doesn’t change the way we've been working.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#booksellers association
Apple just dropped a trailer for its forthcoming sci-fi mystery series Constellation. The series follows an astronaut, played by Noomi Rapace, after an emergency return to Earth. However, the homecoming is fraught with mysterious occurrences and plain-old sci-fi weirdness, leaving audiences... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-01-22 16:42:45 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#breaking bad
#disposable income
#isaac asimov
#real world
#science fiction
PW spoke with Tony Lutkus, president of Diamond Book Distributors, about the evolution of the graphic novel category over the last two decades, a few of the titles he's excited about dropping in the coming season, and how bringing more graphic titles into bookstores and libraries can subtly... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#graphic titles
#pw close-
#pw spoke
#coming season
#libraries
#graphic novel
Netflix’s long-anticipated sci-fi series 3 Body Problem finally has a full trailer, following a short teaser released last year. This new trailer is over two minutes long and absolutely filled with exciting moments and tantalizing clues. Watch it below. The show’s based on a hit book series by... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-01-09 20:00:27 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#follow suit
#eiza gonzlez
#john bradley
#true blood
#first novel
#book series
With the publication of Billy and the Giant Adventure (Tundra), celebrity chef Jamie Oliver becomes a children’s book author. In the inventive and inspiring story, a group of friends enter a portal to another world, where they have a wild adventure and meet a menagerie of creatures. Oliver... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-21 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book author
#inspiring story
#jamie oliver
#giant adventure
#children’s book