Fiction is fiction and nonfiction is nonfiction, and in case you get those mixed up, fiction is the “not real one” and nonfiction is “the real one.” Those lines can get blurred, however, when a real-life person from the real world shows up for a little while in what is otherwise a not-true story. It’s […]
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for example, four of the nine nominees for Best Picture are adaptations of books—The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips (A Captain’s Duty), and Philomena (The Lost Child of Philomena Lee). Of course, it […]
Thanks to Charlie Kaufman, we all know what the process of adapting a book is like for the screenwriter—it starts with a depressive funk and ends with your imaginary twin brother getting eaten by an alligator—but what’s the experience for the writer whose work is being adapted? What does it feel like to see characters […]