Ep 22 Book to Movie: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Comparing the 2014 New Weird novel to the 2018 Alex Garland movie adaptation SHOW NOTES Jeff Vandermeer’s weird novel Annihilation was published in 2014 to wide acclaim by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (a publisher not known for weird fiction). It is the first novel in what has become a quartet of novels known as the
Ep 21 – Book to Movie: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
This episode begins a series of podcasts on specific books adapted to movies. The chosen book is the 1973 novel, The Princess Bride by William Goldman which was adapted into a famous film by Goldman and director Rob Reiner in 1983. SHOW NOTES The original novel, The Princess Bride, was originally published by Harcourt Brace
Ep 20 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” – Special Guest: Chen Malul
This episode features a discussion with Israeli writer, Chen Malul, of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay, “On Fairy Stories“. Tolkien originally wrote the essay as a speech he delivered as part of the Andrew Lang lectures for St. Andrews College in Scotland. Later, after the publication of The Lord of the Rings and its massive success, Tolkien
Ep 19 Holloway House and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction. Special Guest: Gary Phillips
I’ve been working on this podcast for years now. Since I first saw the lurid cover of Iceberg Slim’s Pimp in the “Black Fiction” section of a bookstore, I have studied, read, and obsessed with the publisher Holloway House. And, of course, my friend Gary Phillips is the only person I wanted to discuss this
Raymond Chandler Paperback Covers Gallery
Episode 3 – Chandler Paperback Covers Tom Adam’s Raymond Chandler covers for Ballantine Books. Scans of the covers are from the excellent website Catspaw Dynamics. Other interesting Chandler covers discussed in the podcast