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Rarely is the journey from classic novel to decent film as successful as it was with To Kill a Mockingbird , The Grapes of Wrath , or even s...

Via Gawker comes this news that the editor and co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook is set to release a sequel, called True Prep: I...

It'll never happen, but the people behind the Twilight movie franchise want Sofia Coppola to direct the third movie in the trilogy, ...

Wow! Mind exploding here. I'm currently reading (for the very first time) Franny and Zooey (1961), J.D. Salinger's third book, in w...

This is great. I'm rerere re reading (that's at least four times) The Catcher in the Rye . Anyway, that's a nice interpretatio...

Jimmy Reed

Seattle, 1961 (photograph by Hans Namuth ) I'm trying to get reinspired to do some sort of photographically oriented road trip by among ...

The illustrations are by Edward Windsor Kemble , and were included in the original, 1884 publication of the novel . The French call an episo...

In 1968, Hannah-Barbera took Mark Twain's characters and thrust them into various make-believe fantasy worlds. In this live-action/anim...

The Great Gatsby original cover art by Francis Cugat “Good night, Nick ,” said Daisy . Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of...

Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird and have just completed the Monroe County Heritage Museum 's book, Monroeville: The Search for Harper L...

I received Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life as a Christmas gift, and despite having read a couple of other Lennon biographies (as ...

From Wikipedia : Jerome David " J.D." Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The C...

In Exit Ghost (2007), writer Philip Roth 's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman , returns like Rip Van Winkle to a post-9/11 New York after bei...

I'm just now rereading Philip Roth 's Pulitzer Prize (two of 'em) winning novel, American Pastoral , for the second time. It...