I’ll go out on a thin limb here and say we are all familiar with John Lennon. If you don’t know him from his star-making career as one of the core members of The Beatles— most of whose songs were written by the Lennon-McCartney (as in Paul McCartney) songwriting duo— you might know him from his stellar post-Beatles career, or from his work with his partner, Yoko Ono. However, there is another creative medium in John Lennon’s repertoire that has not received quite as much attention as his music. Image Via Gifer In honor of what would have been Lennon’s …
Robert Jordan’s long-running high fantasy epic, The Wheel of Time, is finally getting it’s long-awaited screen adaptation, which will be produced by Sony Pictures Televison and Amazon Studios. The series takes place in a world where magic is present, but can only be performed by women. The series has taken a long winding road to this adaptation; the first book was published in 1990, and first optioned for a series in 2000 by NBC, which led to a dead end. Then, in 2004, Red Eagle bought the film, TV, video game, and comic rights to The Wheel of Time, and proceeded to air a pilot …
Two cultural icons, Oprah Winfrey and Toni Morrison, will soon meet in honor of Morrison’s body of work. Morrison will be bestowed with The Center for Fiction’s ‘Excellence in Fiction’ award, which Winfrey will present at the Center’s ceremony on December 11th. Image via Writer’s Room at the Betsy The Center for Fiction is “the only nonprofit literary organization in the U.S. solely dedicated to celebrating fiction.” The event is co-chaired by Lee Child and Michael Ondaatje, and will also honor Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group with the Maxwell Perkins Award. Image via Bleatives …
Toni Morrison is a literary legend and simply an incredible woman. Her work has held a respected place in the curriculums of high school and higher education since the seventies, therefore you are very likely familiar with at least one of her books, and you know what a talent she is. Morrison has lived a very eventful life; here are just a few interesting facts about Toni Morrison you may not have already known. “Toni Morrison” is a pen name. Image Via WorthPoint Morrison was born Chloe Adelia Wofford; “Toni” is a nickname derived from Anthony her baptismal name, …
Hanya Yanagihara, author of The People in the Trees and A Little Life, (for which she was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2015) is a well-read lover of literature, and as such, has some incredible book recommendations for her readers. For those of you who admire Yanagihara’s work and wish to get a sense of where she gets her inspiration from, consider picking up one of the following: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant Image via Amazon According to Yanagihara, this book, by the author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, is one of the best books …
