Pop culture news for readers: November 3, 2023

Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ...

• Matthew Wilder will write and direct a biopic on author Joan Didion, and the untitled film is expected to take us from a day in her life in the 1960s to a future in which an AI version of Didion "encounters a dystopia beyond her wildest anxiety dreams" (Deadline).

• Ever wonder how a celebrity gets chosen to narrate an audiobook? It's often the audiobook producers who are playing "matchmaker," says The New York Times.

• Bookish Gilmore Girls fans are all about Rory's reading list, but Jeffrey Davies wants to give a special shout-out to Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series, which is diversifying these pop-culture reading lists (BookRiot).