Posted on October 25, 2024 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ...
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Movie producer Lynda Obst, who also wrote two well-received books about the film industry, has died at the age of seventy-four (The New York Times).
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Recent adaptation news you might have missed includes that Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, and The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden are coming to screens (Book Riot).
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As for screens ... Good Omens is leaving them, with season three now comprising one single ninety-minute episode; that episode has no further involvement from novelist Neil Gaiman (Variety).
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Grammy Award winner Victoria Monét is debuting as a children's book author; Everywhere You Are comes out June 24 in both Spanish and English (Book Riot).
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In case you, like us, missed it: Oprah Winfrey chose Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, co-written with her daughter Riley Keough, as her newest book club choice (Oprah Daily).
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Reading Rainbow host and literacy activist LeVar Burton was among the thirty-nine people who received the National Medals of Arts and Humanities from 2022 and 2023 (Deadline).
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