Showtime has announced that it will air a twenty-episode series based on Jonathan Franzen’s novel Purity. Daniel Craig will play the role of Andreas Wolf. Franzen will serve as executive producer, and Todd Field will direct. Production will begin in 2017.
Tonight, PEN launches a new reading series in the room above the East Village’s KGB Bar. The inaugural event, called Nothing Compares 2 U, is about Prince, and will feature readings by Porochista Khakpour, Lincoln Michel, Elissa Schappell, and James Yeh.
At the Washington Post, Carlos Lozada wonders why Hillary Clinton “associates works by female authors, or featuring female protagonists, with easier, more relaxing reading.” Trump, on the other hand, isn’t reading many books at all, stating: “I haven’t read a book in so long because—now I read passages, I can’t read, so I read chapters, I just—I don’t have the time.”
Aleksandar Hemon—the author of The Lazarus Project, The Making of Zombie Wars, and other books—explains why he decided not to sign an open letter against Trump.
Yahoo has published redacted versions of FBI-issued subpoenas requesting data from the Internet service provider.
Brooklyn magazine has a profile of Penina Roth, the founder of the excellent Franklin Park Reading Series, which has hosted a number of established and innovative authors at a Crown Heights bar. Her latest project, the Manhattanville Reading Series, focuses on authors who have not yet published a book. “I felt like I was neglecting emerging writing,” says Roth.