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Eileen is a psychological thriller film based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning debut novel of the same name, with a screenplay by the author and her husband Luke Goebel. Directed by William Oldroyd and starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, the film is set in a 1960s juvenile detention facility and follows the life of a young correctional officer and her entanglements with a charming prison psychologist.
“The book that I didn’t know I could do was the one I should be doing.” In this Penguin Random House video, author Colson Whitehead talks about the origins of his award-winning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, and continuing the stories of his character Ray Carney through his two latest novels, Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto.
Take a first look at the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, starring Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman. The series follows a chemist in the 1960s, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself a single mother and the reluctant star of a beloved cooking show.
Watch the trailer for The Other Black Girl, a Hulu series adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Zakiya Dalila Harris. The comedy-drama mystery thriller series stars Sinclair Daniel, Ashleigh Murray, Brittany Adebumola, Hunter Parrish, and Eric McCormack.
In this video, Rebekah Bergman celebrates the release of her debut novel, The Museum of Human History (Tin House, 2023), with author Rita Bullwinkel at Green Apple Books in San Francisco. Bergman is featured in “First Fiction 2023” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this Books Are Magic event, Shastri Akella reads from his debut novel, The Sea Elephants (Flatiron Books, 2023), and speaks about his journey navigating the writing life with author Rakesh Satyal. Akella is featured in “First Fiction 2023” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
At the Waterstones bookshop in London, Brandon Taylor talks about three books by authors he admires that inspired the writing of his latest novel, The Late Americans, published in June in the U.K. by Jonathan Cape. “The Late Americans is full of strange, difficult relationships and fraught dynamics with respect to sex and class, and to my mind, nobody does that better than Mary Gaitskill,” says Taylor.
Tyriek White reads from his debut novel, We Are a Haunting (Astra House, 2023), and speaks with Regina N. Bradley for this Charis Circle event in Decatur, Georgia. White is featured in “First Fiction 2023” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Don’t waste your life reading stuff that isn’t giving you pleasure.” In this 2020 CBS Mornings interview with cohost Jeff Glor, novelist Martin Amis talks candidly about his deep friendships with writers, grief and death, and his autobiographical novel Inside Story (Knopf, 2020). Amis died at the age of seventy-three on May 19, 2023.
“Part of my purpose as a writer is to help make compassion the standard.” In this Penguin Random House video, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks about his research process, speculative fiction, and writing his debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars (Pantheon, 2023).
