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This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

On Horror, Heavy Metal, and Why We Love to Be Scared

On Horror, Heavy Metal, and Why We Love to Be Scared

Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett May be the World's Biggest Horror Fan

By Steve Almond | October 31, 2017

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

A Brief History of Gore, Splatter, and the Art of Fake Blood

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2017

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

Evany Rosen on Assembling Her Own Personal Writers Room

By Evany Rosen | October 25, 2017

I'll See You in Berlin: Xiaolu Guo on a Fresh Start in a New City

I'll See You in Berlin: Xiaolu Guo on a Fresh Start in a New City

"I Wanted to Shoot myself out of London and Everything Else Forever"

By Xiaolu Guo | October 12, 2017

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

Where Can the Literary Documentary Go From Here?

What Four Offerings from the NYFF Say About the State of the Genre

By Craig Hubert | September 29, 2017

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What Can Comedy News Shows Actually Accomplish?

By Dawn Herrera Helphand | September 20, 2017

Hanging Out with Pennywise and My Grandmother's Ghost

By Kayla Rae Whitaker | September 11, 2017

I Watched the Entire Hot Shakespeare Show So You Don't Have To

By Eric Thurm | September 8, 2017

<em>Rebel in the Rye</em> is Bad for Writers

Rebel in the Rye is Bad for Writers

Danny Strong's Salinger Biopic is One Big Cliché

By Emily Temple | September 8, 2017

Too Smart or Too Pretty? The Anne of Green Gables Paradox

Too Smart or Too Pretty? The Anne of Green Gables Paradox

Elisa Gabbert on TV Beauty and Growing Up Gifted

By Elisa Gabbert | August 29, 2017

Is <em>The Dark Tower</em> the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

Is The Dark Tower the Worst Stephen King Movie Ever?

On Solipsistic Storytelling and the Limits of King-as-Genre

By J.W. McCormack | August 11, 2017

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

And Other Literary Film and TV News from this Week

By Emily Temple | July 28, 2017

Agatha Christie Is Taking Over All Your Screens

Agatha Christie Is Taking Over All Your Screens

And Other Literary Film and Television News

By Emily Temple | July 21, 2017

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

Blood on the Big Screen: A Lady Macbeth Who Does the Killing

An Adaptation of an Adaptation of the Scottish Play

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2017

<em>Black Mirror</em> to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

Black Mirror to be a Book, Shakespeare to be a Punk

The Week in Literary Film & TV News

By Emily Temple | June 16, 2017

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