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Maupin’s classic is getting a Netflix miniseries adaptation this Pride Month starring Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Ellen Page. You don’t have to live in San Francisco to be blown away by this collection of love letters to the beloved city by the bay. Come for the wonderful cast of characters, stay for their thrilling adventures, and be entertained throughout.
Book club pick…
Reese Witherspoon selected “The Cactus” as her June 2019 Hello Sunshine book club pick. “This title is a perfect metaphor for Susan who is a single, regimented woman faced with an unexpected pregnancy just as she navigates a difficult family inheritance issue at the same time. I found myself laughing out loud at Susan’s prickly character as she finds herself in a love triangle, navigating family ties and dealing with 9 months of pregnancy at the age of 45,” Witherspoon wrote on the club’s website.
Award winner…
Tayari Jones’ explosive bestseller won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. “This is an exquisitely intimate portrait of a marriage shattered by racial injustice. It is a story of love, loss and loyalty, the resilience of the human spirit painted on a big political canvas — that shines a light on today’s America,” said Professor Kate Williams in the Prize’s announcement post.
Editor’s pick…
Sally Rooney has a way of writing so concisely and so sharply about love and social status and neuroses that you feel, at times, as though she’s cut you open, and you’re staring at your own innards on the page. Two preternaturally intelligent Irish teenagers are brought together by an almost magnetic fascination with one another, only to be driven apart by everything from high school hierarchies to emotional and physical trauma.
On the screen…
This satirical masterpiece brilliantly captures the bureaucratic absurdities of war. With a title that’s become synonymous with an intractable problem, Yossarian and company’s tragicomic plight resonates to this day. It’s being adapted into a Hulu series this May starring Christopher Abbott as John Yossarian and George Clooney as Lieutenant Scheisskopf.
Book club pick…
This Hugo Award-winner is the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club pick for June 2019. Very few novels have such unique, intricate worlds that transport you to new places of imagination while still commenting so cuttingly on current political issues.
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