Posted on February 25, 2026 at 8:42 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ...
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Award-winning actress Emma Thompson will narrate the audiobook version of Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, A Hymn to Life (Vintage Books).
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Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson will star as writer Truman Capote in a revival of the play Tru this spring (Playbill).
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Colin Firth has been cast in an Apple TV+ series based on the novel Metropolis by Philip Kerr (Deadline).
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The thriller It's Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh has been optioned for the screen, even before the book has hit shelves (Red Planet Pictures).
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Check out the teaser for Netflix's upcoming series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and enjoy this fun fact: Jack Lowden will play Mr. Darcy, famously brought to life by Colin Firth ... his costar in the upcoming series based on Philip Kerr's Metropolis(Netflix).
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Did you know that the Los Angeles Public Library’s Los Feliz branch is on the site of Leonardo DiCaprio's childhood home, and that the actor and his family have funded it heavily? (SF Gate).
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