Those who have been patiently waiting for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to grace their television screen won’t have to wait much longer. Deadline reports that HBO has set April 22 as the premiere date for the biopic, which stars Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks, the daughter of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was famous for her unwitting contribution to science, when her cervical cancer cells were extracted and used to create HeLa, an immortal cell line. Her story has generated scholarship for several decades, both in science and in the fields of ethics and race/class issues in medicine. Rebecca Skloot …
Walt Whitman was many things, but a great novelist was apparently not one of them. Maybe that is why he never revealed himself as the writer of Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. The serial was published anonymously in The Sunday Dispatch back on March 14, 1852, to mostly negative reviews. Recently, scholar Zachary Turpin? discovered the identity of the writer by using names and phrases from some of Whitman’s old notebooks and matching them up with names and phrases from old newspapers. Walt Whitman’s “Life and Adventures of Jack Engle,” which was found by a student, is being republished https://t.co/zNYWHw7eex …
Fans of the His Dark Materials trilogy are finally about to get the companion series they’ve been waiting for. According to The Guardian, Philip Pullman is set to release The Book of Dust, a fantasy trilogy series that works alongside His Dark Materials. The first volume of the trilogy will hit bookstores on October 19. I’m delighted that we can now say something about #bookofdust. There’s a message on my website and another here: https://t.co/qbEeSdX2vJ — Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) February 15, 2017 It has been 17 years since the last installment of His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass, has been released. Since then, …
The easiest way into a book is the title. If a title is interesting, most readers are quick to become intrigued, eager to delve in. If a title is drab and unexciting, some readers may expect the book to be the same and lose interest. With that in mind, here are the ten best book titles to get a reader stoked. 1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick One of the legendary media titles of all-time, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has a lot to do with androids and a little bit to do with electric sheep. …
Spring is just around the corner, and with it, the arrival of three Netflix shows all adapted from popular books. With each appearing in the news the past few days, here’s a quick update about their development: 13 Reasons Why The adaptation of the Jay Asher book Thirteen Reasons Why announced a premiere date for the show just a couple of weeks ago. On Wednesday, fans were given a deeper glimpse into the show by Netflix, which released several photos (acquired by Entertainment Weekly) during a press junket on Wednesday. Images courtesy of Entertainment Weekly The show, which counts Selena Gomez …
