Do you think J.M. Coetzee‘s Disgrace should be made into a movie starring John Malkovich? Someone does–see the trailer here.
Disgrace
The Casual Vacancy Adaptation
Although we won’t see Hogwarts on screen again, another J.K. Rowling fictional world will be on your TV soon. HBO and BBC are adapting her novel The Casual Vacancy into a three-hour miniseries.
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Clarissa Explains It All
Recommended Reading: This piece by Adelle Waldman at The New Yorker on loving and loathing Samuel Richardson, “the man who made the modern novel.”
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Urban Homesteaders
Better late than never, here are eight great new books for Urban Homesteaders.
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No Phonies Here
“Salinger’s Holden Caulfield made a distinction between writers you would like to call on the phone and those you wouldn’t care to talk to at all. Teju Cole belongs to the former group.” Year in Reading alum Aleksandar Hemon interviews Teju Cole. If you can’t get enough of Cole, we interviewed him, too.
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Venessa Hudgen should play young Melanie.