Best Adapted Screenplays – Philomena
This is part 5 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
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Month: February 2014
Best Adapted Screenplays – 12 Years a Slave
This is part 4 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
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The Splendid Things We Planned by Blake Bailey
It is a rare thing to find me reading non-fiction. I tend to like the escape that fiction...
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Best Adapted Screenplays – Captain Phillips
This is part 3 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
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Best Adapted Screenplays – The Wolf of Wall Street
This is part 2 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
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Best Adapted Screenplays – The Book Is Always Better Than the Movie –
This is part 1 of Benjamin Rybeck’s coverage of the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees at the 86th...
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Debarking by Lorrie Moore
“All his tin-penny miseries and chicken shit joys would lead him once again to Sparky’s.” Ira has...
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Dead Eye by Mark Greaney
Usually, I avoid quoting from book jacket copy, but in the case of Mark Greaney’s Dead Eye (which...
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Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
First, you need to understand the deal with the quesadillas. See, there are four categories, each...
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The Girl With A Clock For A Heart by Peter Swanson
Through the dust motes dancing on the sunbeams George spies the dream his life once was and he...
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Trieste by Dasa Drndic
Reading Dasa Drndic’s novel Trieste is not easy. She has decided to tell the story of Haya...
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Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley
Writer talking…through her character: “And I thought that the substantial outward things...
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Marshlands by Matthew Olshan
At first, the protagonist of Matthew Olshan’s novel Marshlands is defined by who and what he...
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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Imagine a world where you spend close to your entire life translating a book a year into your...
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Save Yourself by Kelly Braffet
To get the mundane aspects out of the way early: there’s nothing mechanically wrong...
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