Stephen King figured that his 1983 novel Pet Cemetery (shown at right) was too scary to publish. On the eve of the debut of the second film based on the book, the author tells EW why. In an interview published today, King tells of going deeply into the book again recently. “I was curious about it. You know, I hadn’t been near it in 20, 25 years. So I listened to it, and thought, “My […]
The Outsiders the musical, a play based in part on the seminal 1967 YA novel by S.E. Hinton, will open in Chicago as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2019-20 season. It will run at the Goodman from June 20-August 2, 2020. Wikipedia describes the original book as “a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the […]
When Dr. Belinda George, principal of Homer Drive Elementary in Beaumont, Texas, discovered that a lot of the kids under her care didn’t have anyone to tuck them in, read them a bedtime story and tell them they were loved, she decided to do something about it. She turned to technology to create Tucked in Tuesdays, where she uses Facebook to do a livestream reading from a children’s book, sometimes even inviting authors to join […]
We’re zooming towards National Poetry Month, which runs all of April and gives us yet another reason to celebrate poetry and the people who make them. Even if it isn’t officially poetry month in your country, it seems a terrific time to reintroduce yourself to this beautiful and significant art form and there are a lot of tools out there to help you do it. 1. You can sign up for Poem-A-Day. It’s free. Launched […]
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comics, by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart.) In an era of successful far-right movements consolidating power around the world, we need […]
One can’t help but wonder what Gabriel García Márquez would be thinking about the fact that his classic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, will go into production as a Spanish-language series. García Márquez, who died in 2014 at the age of 87, had always declined offers when Hollywood came knocking. The series will be filmed in the author’s native Colombia and his sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will act as executive […]
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