On Tuesday, April 5, we held the last event in our 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, and Regie O'Hare Gibson, David Lovelace, Tova Mirvis, Leslie Williams, and Lara JK Wilson proffered poetry and prose to the delight and invigoration of the assembled Newtonville Books audience. Working at the Mass. Cultural Council has many terrific aspects, but getting to do events like the … [Read more...]
Page to Screen, Part II
Further adventures in movies Yesterday, we talked about adapting novels to film and past MCC awardees who have done so. Today, ArtSake returns to Hollyword (i.e. the special place movies of books get made). The following is a list of books by past state fellows in literature that have been made into movies. Andre Dubus (Fellow '76) wrote Finding a Girl in America (1980). … [Read more...]