Tag: Books

Like P. L. Travers said, a writer is only half the book, the other half is the reader. Moreover, each reader is unique in what…

Occasionally a complex literary work will connect with the right director and screenwriter who will select a point of view, edit the hell out of the details and modify the arrangement of various elements to support the change in medium from page to screen. When this happens, we, the audience, are handed a diamond that has been painfully pressed from the coal that is the written word. The flurries of words that challenge our imaginations when we read are replaced by the filmmaker’s creative interpretation that somehow maintains all the complexities of the original book.

I’m entitled to promote myself from time to time you know. I don’t endeavor to do that directly, even though I plug my own website…