Posted on October 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ...
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A comic book series adaptation of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl books will launch in January, with issues coming out monthly after that first double issue (Variety).
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper is writing and illustrating a graphic novel called The Butcher: The Decades-Long Hunt for Klaus Barbie, One of the World’s Most Notorious Killers; the book about an especially infamous Nazi comes out June 1 (Variety).
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Here are the year's worst page-to-screen adaptations as determined by Rotten Tomatoes ratings (Book Riot).
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Actress Kelly Bishop, best known for her role in the TV series Gilmore Girls, is writing her first novel with the help of novelist Ali Rosen; Broad Appeal comes out September 21 (People).
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The latest trend in literary adaptations: authors selling adaptation rights not to their already released novels, but to their unpublished short stories (The New York Times).
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