It does not seem that long ago that I sat in Hollywood restaurant with my friends, a producer and songwriter. Please, I said, to the producer who was just launching a thriller into the movie ...

Alix Ohlin’s third novel, Dual Citizens, is the engrossing, intricate tale of half-sisters Lark and Robin Brossard, from their childhood in Montreal to adulthood as Lark hones her documentary ...

Most Hollywood lit pics are based on well-known novels. One reason to adapt a book in the first place is to capitalize on an established brand, be it an author or title. The studios are always more ...

The guy could write. The story of Revolutionary Road author Richard Yates, told in excruciating detail in Blake Bailey’s 2003 A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, moves me, partly ...

Bleak. That’s always been the rap against American novelist Richard Yates. Though he has been celebrated as a writer’s writer and a consummate craftsman since his death in 1992, even his admirers ...

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