literature adaptations

WTTE Ep23: Adaptation (How does a book become a film?) The book is always better than the film. Or so they say. But there are obviously quite a few problems with this, as there tends to be with any sweeping generalisation. For some,…

It may seem unlikely now but it is perfectly possible that in a few decades’ time someone might ask: “Do you know JK Rowling?” And, after a blank stare, might be forced to add: “You know, the woman who wrote Harry Potter”. The American…

To some, Hunter S. Thompson is massively overrated. To others, he is a shining beacon of God-like wonder; an embodiment of all that is good and right and just about drug culture. Of the two types of Thompson observers, I am the former.…