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- 9 Oct
- Literary Hub· 9 OctMarch 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German Democracy
Recently, President Donald Trump banned three media organizations from the White House because of their negative coverage of him and his administration. “I mean, there’s something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories,” Trump
- Literary Hub· 9 OctWhat Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Rush all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews.
- Literary Hub· 9 OctFrom Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, I shared my first, tentative pages with a
- Literary Hub· 9 OctQueer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between
Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of syllables. Margaret told researchers in Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith’s study that she felt Aly had “divorced the whole family.” Before
- Literary Hub· 9 OctJérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher
Jean Echenoz’s Jérôme Lindon recounts, in sixty spare, affectionate, sometimes lightly barbed pages, the twenty-year relationship that its author enjoyed with his publisher, a legend of the French literary establishment. The story begins in 1979 with an unexpected summons to
- Literary Hub· 9 OctHow Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss
The first summer after my daughter died, I received an email invitation to give a keynote address the next spring. I didn’t know the scholar who invited me, but she’d been told that my daughter had recently died and offered
- Literary Hub· 9 OctAlice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”
It began when I heard a sentence: “He wanted to talk again, suddenly.” The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in
- Variety· 9 OctUTA and Gold House Set Partnership to Build Asia-Hollywood Bridge (EXCLUSIVE)
UTA and Gold House are joining forces at the Busan International Film Festival and in Seoul this month, marking the Asian Pacific advocacy organization’s first official foray into Korea as the two look to connect Asian creatives and investors with Hollywood.
- Literary Hub· 9 OctRoadshow
Annie bought a fifth of whiskey from the liquor store beside the Starbucks because money was imminent, and because Vera’s addendum had knocked something loose that needed fixing, the image of her lips against Tom Selleck’s mustache, again and again,
- Deadline· 9 OctIcelandic Drama ‘Elma’ Set For Siminn Bow As Glassriver Debuts ‘NCU’ At MIPCOM
EXCLUSIVE: Elma, the Icelandic crime thriller series, will launch domestically on Síminn’s streaming service on October 15, as its producer brings new title NCU to MIPCOM.
- The Hollywood Reporter· 9 OctDisney’s Jon Wax Says Buzzy K-Drama ‘The Remarried Empress’ Has Substance to Match Its Spectacle
Speaking at an MPA and Disney+ event during the Busan International Film Festival, the executive surveyed Disney’s Asian originals slate and discussed the trends shaping the region’s streaming business, from Korean co-productions to opportunities in anime.
The Remarried Empress - TVLine· 9 OctQuote Of The Day By Drew Barrymore: 'I Forgive My Mom. I Forgive My Dad. I've Never...'
Drew Barrymore shares her long road to forgiving her parents, and how it's been much harder to forgive herself.
- Deadline· 9 OctSkydance UK Network 5’s Profit Drops By Two-Thirds Amid Streaming Investment & Ad Woes
5, the UK television network that sits within David Ellison’s newly minted Skydance empire, posted a 64% decline in profit last year.
- Deadline· 9 OctDiane Warren To Write Original Song For ‘Armani: The King Of Fashion’
EXCLUSIVE: Perennial Oscar nominee Diane Warren is set to write the original song for Armani: The King of Fashion, the upcoming biopic of the fashion icon directed by Bille August.
- Variety· 9 OctBavaria Media Intl. Unveils Mipcom Slate Including German TV Hits ‘Mordach,’ ‘Home-Made Christmas’ and ‘Throughout the Years’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Bavaria Media Intl., the distribution arm of Bavaria Film Group, has unveiled a slate of scripted shows ahead of TV market Mipcom, including German TV hits “Mordach,” “Home-Made Christmas,” “Fanny’s Extraordinary World” and “Throughout the Years.” The crime lineup features “Cold…
- The Hollywood Reporter· 9 Oct‘Queer Edward II’ Gives an Inside Look at Derek Jarman’s Film and Timely Historical Snapshot of a Queer Rights Backlash
Theo Rollason discusses his feature directorial debut, exec produced by Tilda Swinton and Sandy Powell, now screening at the London Film Fest, and how “anti-trans rhetoric and attacks on queer rights [are] again intensifying.”
- Deadline· 9 OctReelz To Follow The CW’s ‘Police 24/7’; Sky Remains On The Case For Season 3
EXCLUSIVE: Following strong ratings on The CW, Police 24/7 is opening new outposts. Reelz has struck a second-window deal for Seasons 1 and 2 of the blue-lights show in which law-enforcement agencies across the United States are followed across multiple jurisdictions and stories…
- Variety· 9 OctSkyShowtime’s ‘The Homicide Unit,’ From Warner Bros., and Iceland’s ‘Fjord’ Boarded by Reinvent Yellow Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
kyShowtime’s “The Homicide Unit” produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) Sweden, and Iceland’s “Fjord” have been added to Reinvent Yellow Sales’ Mipcom slate.The two crime shows feature top female investigators played by internationally acclaimed…
- Variety· 9 OctJohn Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta Fantasy ‘Starbright’ Boarded by Cappu Films Ahead of Busan Market (EXCLUSIVE)
International sales on “Starbright,” Francesco Lucente’s English-language fantasy adventure starring John Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta and Alexandra Dowling, have gone to Cappu Films, which sealed the deal on the eve of the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film…
- Variety· 9 OctHow ‘Dying to Survive’ Director Wen Muye Turned a Cook’s War Into $342 Million China Smash ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’: ‘I Never Think About Social Issues in Advance’
Xu Fu went to the Middle East for the money. The Shenyang cook, played by Shen Teng in “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,” takes the head-chef job at the Dragon Restaurant because the pay could help clear his family’s debts.
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