Austin Butler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Sofia Coppola are just some of the names in this edition of Your Week in Books
Mina Esguerra’s books on Smashword’s End of Year sale
Fairy Tale Fail, which you guys just saw being read in the video, is just one of the books by Mina V. Esguerra that is part of Smashword’s End of Year sale. It’s currently free alongside My Imaginary Ex. Check out Mina’s blog post for the rest of the books that are on sale!
Austin Butler as Patrick Bateman
Looks like Austin Butler is on a book adaptation streak. After portraying Feyd-Rautha in the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, The Guardian is reporting that he will now be the Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s “new interpretation” of Bret Easton Ellis’ book. I don’t know if it’s going to top Mary Harron’s excellent adaptation but I am looking forward to beefcake shots of Austin Butler since Christian Bale did it and all.
Grant awardees for the Angoulême International Comics Festival
Last month, the National Book Development Board announced a Creative Nation grant for comic book creators who want to be part of the delegation to the Angoulême International Comics Festival. They just announced the six grant awardees on their Facebook page. Congratulations!
One Hundred Years of Solitude reviews
Suffice it to say that Netflix’s track record for adaptations has been spotty at best, and that’s with material that literary type scoff at. So it’s understandable that there was a lot of apprehension with the adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude. But it looks like those apprehensions may have been misplaced because the critics seem to like it!
The Guardian gave the adaptation three stars and called it “a big, gorgeous adaptation of a big, gorgeous book” while The Atlantic says the adaptation works better than even Gabriel Garcia Marquez may have expected. It’s been literal decades since I read this book so I may need to revisit it again before watching this. If I can find the book.
Death of Nikki Giovanni
I personally haven’t read any of Nikki Giovanni’s work, but I do have friends who do. People reports that she died on December 9 after her third cancer diagnosis. She was 81. They also report that her final work, The Last Book, will be published posthumously in 2025.
Sarah Jessica Parker as a Booker Prize judge
Sarah Jessica Parker was just announced as part of the judging panel for the 2025 Booker Prize but the one thing that surprised me from People‘s report on it is that Sarah Jessica Parker was editorial director for SJP for Hogarth, the Hogarth being the same independent publisher that Leonard and Virginia Woolf started in 1917. Damn. Also Sarah Jessica Parker has her own imprint now? SJP Lit? I didn’t know!
Sofia Coppola’s new book imprint
Talking about book imprints, here’s another famous name starting one. The Virgin Suicides director Sofia Coppola is launching her own imprint, Important Flowers, and People reports that its first book will be a behind-the-scenes photo book of Coppola’s debut film, 1999’s The Virgin Suicides. The imprint will also put out a 500-page “visual history” of French fashion house Chanel Haute Couture, as well as a daily planner that’s designed to look like Coppola’s own personal diary.
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