That’s right, reader. A new film is putting a sly spin on the patron saint of emo kids. Even before it made the enduring mold for a certain sort of sad boy—never forget that Dan “Gossip Girl” Humphrey was a mega-Werther fan—Goethe’s romantic tragedy rocked the literary world on its publication in 1774. An epistolary … Continue reading The rom-com of…Young Werther? Goethe’s famous sadsack is getting a new adaptation.