Are you ready for a journey to a world of pure imagination? Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is going to take center stage in New York next year in the form of a musical adaptation. This isn’t the first time that Dahl’s book has become a stage sensation. According to The New York Times, a version of the musical (pictured above) has been running in London’s West End since 2013. That version has been a commercial success, and organizers are expecting similar results here. Critics, however, were a bit less kind than audiences were – and, as …
Fans were devastated when Paramount Pictures dropped the film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince just a week before its U.S. release. Now, those same fans can breathe easy: Netflix has swooped in and secured the rights to the film. According to The Verge, Netflix has secured North American streaming rights to The Little Prince. Combined with Paramount’s decision to not release the film in theaters, that likely means that Netflix will premiere the film itself. Why was the film dropped in the first place? Nobody seems to know. There’s nothing wrong with the movie itself: it’s completely finished, features …
WARNING: The details of the banned book may be upsetting to some readers. For the past 18 years, the Censorship of Publications Board of Ireland hasn’t banned a single book. Now they’ve broken that streak and taken the unusual step of banning a book across the whole of Ireland. The banning of the book is an unusual move that is sure to anger free speech activists, but the Censorship of Publications Board insists that it was a “last resort.” Shane McCarthy, the Chairman of the Censorship Board, told the Independent that the board had no other option for restricting the book. …
Emma Watson’s feminist book club is still going strong! The group has just announced its next book. They’ll be reading How to Be a Woman, a feminist memoir by Caitlin Moran. Moran’s book fuses autobiography with political thought, discussing Moran’s upbringing, her battles with sexism, and her feminist philosophy. In addition to her novel, Moran recently wrote a piece on feminism for Esquire. Watson was a guest editor in the same issue. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9780062124296 Watson announced the pick online through the Our Shared Shelf page. The actress and activist admitted that she had alreadhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/18055529-april-book-how-to-be-a-woman-by-caitlin-morany read Moran’s book: “I read …
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards. Winners include poet Ross Gay and memoirist Margo Jefferson. Check out the full list of winners below! Jefferson’s Negroland was perhaps the most notable winner of the night. Jefferson’s memoir of growing up in a wealthy African-American neighborhood has drawn widespread acclaim. Poet Ross Gay is also having a great year. Prior to winning the National Book Critics Circle Award, his Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude had already earned him the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and made him a finalist for a National Book Award and an NAACP Image …
