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Alias Grace (Anchor Books, 1996), Margaret Atwood’s fictional account of Grace Marks, an Irish Canadian maid who was convicted of murdering her employer and his mistress in 1843, has been adapted into a television series. Directed by Mary Harron and written by Sarah Polley, the series stars Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, and Zachary Levi.
The Village Voice to shutter print weekly and go fully online; Cambridge University Press faces backlash for removing articles at Chinese government’s request; when the Harlem Renaissance went to communist Moscow; and other news.
Total eclipses throughout history have been the cause and inspiration for countless tales of strange or mysterious occurrences, including odd behavior exhibited by confused animals: birds flying erratically, spiders destroying their webs, frogs and crickets chirping, whales breaching, and bats appearing. Write a short story that takes place over the duration of a total solar eclipse, in which an animal’s reaction to the sudden darkness is the catalyst for an unexpected turn of events.
Morgan Parker on resisting labels and embracing one’s fallibility; Thomas E. Ricks on rewriting his book after his editor hated it; the shifting focus of the New York Times book coverage; and other news.
“It’s a story that I’ve carried with me for quite a long time, almost a decade now.” Ayobami Adebayo talks about her debut novel, Stay With Me (Knopf, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Nicole Krauss on portraying uncertainty in fiction; science fiction writer Brian Aldiss has died; book recommendations for the existentialist; and other news.
“Six months remain until you will be born and anything at all could happen to you in that time...” Karl Ove Knausgaard reads from his book Autumn (Penguin Press, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
A new podcast features artists and changemakers on their favorite poems; a collection of Yeats artwork and letters to go on display next month; the Dictionary of American Regional English to discontinue research due to lack of funding; and other news.
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s reading habits; an audio dramatization of Midnight’s Children commemorates Indian independence; the future of the social novel; and other news.
Ten Thousand Saints is a feature film adaptation of Eleanor Henderson’s 2011 debut novel, which is set in the 1980s New York City hardcore scene. Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Ethan Hawke, and Hailee Steinfeld.
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