AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoBook-to-screen Buzz: Anna Kendrick is set to direct and star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s LGBTQ hit “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” with the story’s secret romance and seven marriages bringing BookTok-era visibility to old-Hollywood bisexuality. Literary Spotlight: A new London exhibition revisits Marilyn Monroe’s “Ulysses” moment, spotlighting her reading life and agency in image-making. New Fiction Watch: Maggie O’Farrell’s “Land” lands as a must-read, with its Irish landscape and famine-era memory doing the heavy lifting. Publishing & Events: The Worcestershire LitFest returns with a new Poet Laureate crowning and flash-fiction/young-writer finals, while Kathryn Stockett’s “The Calamity Club” is reviewed as a Mississippi orphanage story that grows teeth after a slow start. Tech & Reading Culture: Research on “screen-saturated childhoods” proposes a framework for how the brain integrates experience—an argument that hits right where modern reading habits begin.
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