The Yari Film Group has released a new trailer for Papa: Hemingway in Cuba, the new biopic about Ernest Hemingway’s years in the Caribbean nation. Watch the full preview below! In the film, a young newspaper reporter (Giovanni Ribisi) writes a letter to his idol, Ernest Hemingway (Adrian Sparks). Hemingway responds with an invitation to visit him in Cuba, and his young fan arrives just in time to see Fidel Castro’s communist forces sweeping across the country. Castro’s revolution ended in 1959 and put a Communist country right in America’s front yard. Cuba went on to play an important role in the …
Elena Ferrante is best known for her Neopolitan novels, a quartet of books that brought her literary fame on both sides of the Atlantic. But in her next book, the author is trying something entirely new: children’s literature. Her first children’s book, The Beach at Night, will be published in English this year. To be fair, the book isn’t exactly new – it’s been around in 2007, but only Italian readers (who know it as La spiaggia di notte) have been able to get their hands on it. According to The Guardian, in a significant move, Ferrante is now entering the children’s market …
Back in 1999, Parisians were sad to see publisher Les Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) close its iconic bookshop on Place de La Sorbonne. Now, more than 15 years later, the bookshop is back. The only catch? The books it’s selling don’t exist yet. Visitors to PUF’s new location find themselves in a small 775-square foot space. There are books on the walls, but none of them are for sale. That’s because PUF is an all-digital bookstore, and doesn’t stock any kind of physical inventory. But that doesn’t mean that PUF’s visitors don’t leave with any physical purchases. According to AP, …
The organizers of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Book Awards have revealed the shortlists for the two prizes. The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the two most prestigious children’s book awards in the UK, and several authors have a chance to score a literary hat trick. Book Buttons Embed ISBN: 9780062403162 The pair of prizes recognizes greatness in children’s and young adult literature. The Carnegie Medal is awarded for the best book, while the Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded for excellence in illustration. Patrick Ness is up for the Carnegie Medal for his novel The Rest of Us Just …
Young adult film adaptations are still a big business, but Hollywood isn’t raking in the cash that it once did from YA franchises. Back in the 2000s and early 2010s, profits from young adult films reached dizzying heights thanks to the success of franchises like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. But recent returns have been significantly leaner, USA Today points out. For a while, Hollywood was able to ride the momentum of the three biggest young adult franchises of the 2000s. The film version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone debuted in 2001, and the franchise turned out a …
