Books into Movies

“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Gives an Unlikely Lesson in Adaptation, is Awesome While Doing So

by Mary Kate Costigan As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie counterpart. I got to 67…

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Literary Events to Get Excited About in 2016

by Mary Kate Costigan 2015 was a great year for all things literary. Harper Lee’s long, long awaited second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was finally released. Margaret Atwood wrote…

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Books

The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: And the Nominees are…

By Amanda Festa Award show season is here again, and while the Academy Awards has its merits, one “Best Adapted Screenplay” category hardly seems like enough space to praise and…

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Articles

Anatomy of The Great Gatsby: Literary Traveler takes on Luhrmann

When it came time for someone to review the latest film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, we could not delegate the task. It’s not that no one was up for…

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Books

Anna Karenina: The Movie

By Katy Kelleher Great film adaptations of classic novels are all alike; every junk Hollywood movie is terrible in its own way. Which way will the 2012 adaptation of Leo…

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