The television adaptation of Stephenie Danler’s Sweetbitter premiered on Starz almost a month ago. While many books are adapted for the screen by professional screenwriters, some adaptations are written by the authors of the source materials. Such is the case with Danler, who has shared her experience making her novel into a story fit for the small screen. Sweetbitter follows a young woman who moves to New York City in order to pursue a new life and ends up getting a job at one of the best restaurants in the city. The book is made up of short vignettes, which made …
This past weekend, YouTuber Connie Glynn took a video of her friend Kelsey Ellison cosplaying as Hermione Granger and dancing to a Super Mario remix at MCM London Comic Con. Except that dancing is not quite the right term. Absolutely slaying it is more accurate. Just watch: Come through Hogwarts!!! pic.twitter.com/NupAz83XjH — Connie Glynn (@noodlerella) May 27, 2018 And you can always count on the internet to meme-ify almost anything, especially anything fandom-related. In an interview with Buzzfeed, Ellison said, “Some of the Harry Potter-related quotes people have come up with are hilarious.” Hermione Granger after 10 …
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, a month that celebrates people in the United States with heritage from anywhere in the Asian continent or the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Obviously, that’s a huge geographic area to represent, but here are six books by Asian/Pacific American authors to get you started that you should read now. Or any time of the year, really. They’re that good. 1. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Image Via Fourth & Sycamore This book actually won the Asian/Pacific American Award for literature as well as the Pulitzer in 2016. The narrator is a half-French, half-Vietnamese army …
Although there was a time when everyone thought print was dying and that ebooks were going to take over, we have seen for several years now that this is not the case. Multiple studies have extolled the benefits of print books: they lead to better comprehension, they provide a greater sense of progress for the reader, and they don’t have any of the potentially negative effects that come from staring at a screen for too long. However, a new study has found one more reason why people might prefer print over digital. The study, which was conducted by the …
There’s been a lot of buzz about a possible film adaptation of the Ms. Marvel comic book series, particularly since last week when Riz Ahmed tweeted Marvel Studios last week suggesting that he, Mindy Kaling, and Kumail Nanjiani are up for working on the screenplay. Obviously many fans are going crazy at this possibility (including the writer and co-creator of the series), so let’s take a look at what we know so far. In an interview with the BBC, Avengers Infinity War producer Kevin Feige said, “Ms. Marvel… is definitely sort of in the works.” Okay, so that’s not the most reassuring statement, but he explained further that …
