April 25, 2006
Lights, Camera, Read!
The summer movie season is almost here, and this year’s slate of would-be blockbusters includes several films based on bestselling books. Interested in comparing the book to the movie? Here are a few of the adaptations you’ll see at the multiplex in the coming months:
May 5: Hoot, based on the children’s novel by Carl Hiaasen
May 19: The Da Vinci Code, based on the novel by Dan Brown
June 30: The Devil Wears Prada, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger
July 7: A Scanner Darkly, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
August 4: Flags of Our Fathers, based on the book by James Bradley
August 4: The Night Listener, based on the novel by Armistead Maupin
August 25: How to Eat Fried Worms, based on the children's novel by Thomas Rockwell
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April 17, 2006
2006 Pulitzer Prizes
The 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for letters and drama have been announced. The winners are:
Fiction: March by Geraldine Brooks
Drama: No award
History: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
Biography: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Poetry: Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
General Nonfiction: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins
Music: Chiavi in Mano by Yehudi Wyner
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Muriel Spark 1918-2006
Scottish-born author Muriel Spark died in Italy on Thursday at the age of 88. Best known for her 1962 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark wrote 24 other novels, several short stories, and three well-received biographies during her long career. In granting her the 2001 Campion Award, the Catholic Book Club hailed her ability to write provocative and entertaining fiction: "Themes universal to the human condition ... are incarnate in her writing with a sometime eerily familiar face. For good or bad, hers are characters that endure in our memory." For more on the author, visit the National Library of Scotland's Muriel Spark Archive or sample one of her many books available at the library.
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