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In this PBS NewsHour video, Kaveh Akbar speaks about writing his first novel, Martyr! (Knopf, 2024), and how pop culture as well as Persian and contemporary literature mix into the narrative in an interview with Jeffrey Brown. The novel is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this event hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Kiley Reid reads from her second novel, Come and Get It (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2024), and discusses what it means to have an artistic responsibility to truth in a conversation with Niela Orr. Come and Get It is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
One Day is a television adaptation of the novel of the same name by best-selling author and screenwriter David Nicholls. Directed by Molly Manners with an adaptation led by Nicole Taylor, the Netflix limited series stars Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall as two best friends finding themselves over the course of twenty years.
Expats is a drama television series adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s best-selling 2016 novel, The Expatriates. Directed by Lulu Wang and starring Sarayu Blue, Nicole Kidman, and Ji-young Yoo, the six-episode limited series follows the lives of three American women in Hong Kong and their fateful, life-changing encounter.
Watch the trailer for the television adaptation of Australian journalist and author Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe (Harper, 2019). The Netflix limited series follows a young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane facing the harsh realities of life and his family.
All of Us Strangers is a British romantic fantasy film directed by Andrew Haigh and based on the 1987 novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, the film follows a screenwriter who develops a relationship with a mysterious neighbor that triggers memories of his past and draws him back to his childhood home.
“There’s nobody left here now. Cows. Graves. Me. There’s not but a thousand acres of Bonaparte left between us.” In this virtual City Lights LIVE event, Ayana Mathis reads from her new novel, The Unsettled (Knopf, 2023), and speaks about finding her compass again after the success of her debut book and the need for quiet and privacy to develop characters in a conversation with author Angela Flournoy.
Leave the World Behind is a film adaptation of the 2020 best-selling novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The psychological, dystopian thriller directed by Sam Esmail stars Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon, Ethan Hawke, Myha’la, and Julia Roberts.
American Fiction is a film adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, a satire about a frustrated Black author and professor who uses a pen name to write a successful book playing into racial stereotypes and tropes. Directed by Cord Jefferson, the film stars Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.
“He’s been such a mirror for pop culture, but now he’s his own pop culture.” In this trailer for King on Screen, a documentary about the many film and television adaptations of Stephen King’s stories and novels, directors and screenwriters discuss what makes King the master of horror.
