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Links to check out for week 10/15/23
The tidal wave of adaptations is here. The trailer for the film version of Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2015 Booker Shortlisted “Eileen” has been released, via Variety.
With the ongoing war in Gaza and Israel, authors from the regions are getting caught in political cross-hairs, per NYT Opinion.
Not book related, but this is a great investigation on the lack of “it boys” in our culture where “it girls," to a degree, still dominate, on i-D.
Roxane Gay, wonderfully, has opinions, from Harper’s Bazaar.
What’s old is new again. Elizabeth Hand’s new release “A Haunting on the Hill” not only sounds like an Elliot Smith compilation album, it’s also a riff of queen Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece “A Haunting of Hill House.” Is that a good thing? The New Yorker investigates.
Hi, reminder that you have four(ish) days to pre-order Britney Spears’s memoir, “The Woman in Me.” Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come, per NYT.
OK, the trailer for American Fiction is 🔥. Can’t wait for this one to hit the silver screen in December, via Vulture.
This deep dive in the impact of Hype Williams is a must read. The reporting and vision for this whole issue by Aria Hughes and her team at Complex is just ::chef’s kiss::, on Complex.