Adapting a novel to a film is tricky—I know this because I am one of the suckers who always go to see the movie adaptations of their favorite books. Apart from To Kill A Mockingbird I must say that I am generally disappointed with the results. The two-hour length of most films…
Your Brain On Literature
Reading for pleasure and reading in order to write about a text may look similar from the outside, but pulling back a few layers of brain tissue reveals a whole different story. A recent study uses the stories of Jane Austen to meld science and literature in order to tell just this story. Dr. Natalie…
Best thing you read this summer?
Before the meandering days of summer entirely give way to the classwork, paper-writing, and grading of fall, let’s discuss: what was the best thing you read this summer—and why? I—Molly Hiro—got through several great contemporary novels, but my favorite was Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Egan’s 2011 Pulitzer-winning work is…