The 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist, called the ‘most diverse’ in the prize’s history, was announced today. Here is the list: Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus) The Luminaries Eleanor Catton (Granta) Harvest Jim Crace (Picador) The Marrying of Chani Kaufman Eve Harris (Sandstone Press) … [Read more…]
If you love books, and the stuff in books, from the music and places to the drinks your favorite fictional characters enjoy, then you’ll be mad for Small Demons. Not only does Small Demons host an ever-expanding archive of literary references, but they also cross-link and connect those references to other books, creating what they … [Read more…]
Per the Guardian: Charlie Kaufman is set to write a big-screen adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro. The screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich is Del Toro’s preferred writer to work on his film of the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel. I like the pairing. Kaufman … [Read more…]
Welcome to New York’s Brazenhead Books, the not-so-secret, secret bookstore, hidden away in a man’s apartment in Manhattan. After he was forced out of his storefront thanks to the obscene costs of New York real estate, rather than close shop and box up his dream, the owner found an alternative that you have to see … [Read more…]
Oftentimes, behind an Academy Award-winning film is a magnificent — and, occasionally, better than the film itself — novel that inspired it Here is a lengthy list of some novels-turned-movies that received Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominations (or, in some cases, wins), including the 2013 nominees: