Jane Austen has been the gift that keeps on giving—for authors, movie producers, and Colin Firth fans—for ages now. From modern day retellings, to spinoff books that focus on her tertiary characters, to mashups featuring zombies, Austen’s novels have been adapted, updated, and otherwise celebrated to within an inch of their robust lives, and fans still can’t get enough of her elegant, […]
The 90s weren’t all grunge rock, Snackwells, and Doc Martens. They were also a golden era for classic-lit inspired movies, each of them given a totally 90s modernizing treatment: Jane Austen met California rich girls, and Shakespeare mashed up with high school cliques. Here are four of our favorite 90s movies with an awesome literary pedigree.
And now for something completely different. Well, sort of. Fans of Curtis Sittenfeld have come to expect her deceptively lighthearted skewerings of American culture, from the boarding school drama of Prep, to the Washington elite in American Wife (with a heroine modeled on Laura Bush). Her latest should seem like a divergence—she takes on Jane […]
Every reader understands the immersive power of a good book, but when you’re young the pull is extra powerful. After my first reading of the Little House books, I inadvertently ran away from home for an afternoon, imagining myself to be on a walkabout to Plum Creek, and I spent the years between ages 7 […]
Once in a while we pull our eyes from our books, eat a sandwich, and read stuff on the internet. Here are some of the best things we clicked on this week. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of your to-be-read list bracing for impact. Here, via ilovelibraries, are all the 2015 winners and honorees of […]
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