Posted on November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ...
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Susanna Kaysen’s memoir Girl, Interrupted is already a movie; now, it's becoming a stage play written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok and featuring songs by Aimee Mann (The New York Times).
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Read an excerpt from Don’t Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours by Alan Light, in which the author addresses how the band helped inspire Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Literary Hub).
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A new licensing deal means we'll get new My Little Pony comics and deluxe editions of older ones (Book Riot).
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A live-action film based on Kay Thompson's Eloise books is headed to Netflix, with well-known writer/director Amy Sherman-Palladino on board and with Ryan Reynolds both producing and playing an "original villainous character" in the movie (The Hollywood Reporter).
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Internet users are melting at how Paddington the Musical — based on the movie that itself adapted Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington — bought the title bear to life on stage (CNN).
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Fox Entertainment Studios and HarperCollins Productions have struck a deal in which Fox gets first dibs on adapting material from the Harper Collins imprint Avon A, while the latter gets priority on publishing literary adaptations of Fox's shows and movies (The Hollywood Reporter).
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E. Lockhart's novel Genuine Fraud is being adapted for the screen by Amazon MGM Studios and will star a different literary-adaptation alum: Rain Spencer, who appears in the show based on Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty (Teen Vogue).
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Here's how to play Shuffalo, The New Yorker's new word game (Lifehacker).
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