My Top 11 Book-to-Film Adaptations

by Guest Post on May 10, 2012

Movies are rarely as good as the written word that inspired them. But every now and then, Hollywood gets it right. I cannot even watch a film based on a book if I haven’t read it first. It just feels wrong! So grab your library card and get ready to do some reading, because your [...]

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What is the Great American Novel?

by The Reader on April 26, 2012

For centuries, authors have attempted to write the Great American Novel – a work that encapsulates the American experience – a rags-to-riches, Horatio Alger, red white & blue tome put down in black & white. But can a single novel adequately explore the hopes, dreams, irony, sincerity, levity, gravity, disappointments and triumphs of an entire [...]

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Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry

April 9, 2012

“April is the cruelest month,” begins T.S. Eliot’s magnum opus “The Wasteland.” April is also National Poetry Month, but it’s safe to assume that’s not why Eliot seems so bummed about spring. For many, though, the thought of a whole month of poetry is indeed unbearably cruel. How will you survive April if you hate [...]

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5 Acclaimed Authors No One Reads

March 30, 2012

It’s easy to hate on Twilight and The Hunger Games, but there is something eminently readable about both.  Clear, simplistic language and heroic, one-dimensional characters cuddle a lazy reader, enticing attention typically reserved for soap operas and professional wrestling. On the flip side, however, are the authors everyone feels they ought to like, but don’t.  [...]

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ATTENTION: Being Flynn Giveaway!

March 15, 2012

In conjunction with Focus Features’ release of Being Flynn, we are giving away a $25 Fandango gift certificate and a copy of the film’s inspiration, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn. To enter, just email your name to editor@writtenword.com. A winner will be selected at random and informed of their win by [...]

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