The Trouble with “Adam”

WHEN YA PUBLISHER Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put out Ariel Schrag’s Adam in 2014, it felt predetermined that this debut novel would eventually become a movie. Indeed, the promotional materials included a trailer for an imagined film, a digital elevator pitch. Moreover, as a preexisting YA property, the story had a potentially lucrative built-in audience, which […] The post The Trouble with “Adam” appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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Her Book Doesn’t Go Easy on Publishing. Publishers Ate It Up.

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Republic of Consciousness prize shares £20,000 pot among longlist

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Being An Intellectual Won’t Pay the Bills

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