Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead
When we last reported on the television adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel The Last Tycoon, it was slated to air on HBO, and it was 2013. In the world of prestige TV… Read more »
Novelist Michel Faber throws the book—his—at British P.M. David Cameron
In “a satirical gesture, just to let off some impotent steam,” author Michel Faber has sent a gratis copy of his latest (and, he says, his final) novel, The Book… Read more »
Should The Globe Theatre take Hamlet to North Korea?
Earlier this week, Amnesty International criticized The Globe Theatre for planning to take its production of Hamlet to North Korea. Amnesty called for The Globe to read up on the… Read more »
Video: Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett
He was born on this day in 1906 in a part of Dublin called Foxrock. For this reader, Beckett was one of the first modernists to truly demonstrate and electrify… Read more »