The Hours

The Most Famous Retold Stories In Literature

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Foreign Bodies, Ali Smith, Michael Cunningham, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, John Gardner, The Robber's Bride, David Wroblewski, Margaret Atwood, The Great Night, Victoria Patterson, Grendel, The Hours, Girl Meets Boy, Chris Adrian, c.s. Lewis, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Books News

Besides being an accomplished pediatrician, Chris Adrian was named one of the New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40″ fiction writers last summer, and is als...

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Audio Walking Tours With Contemporary Literature As Your Guide

fsgworkinprogress.com | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, Americana, Paul Auster, Freedom, Electric Literature, Audio Walking Tour, Do Delillo, New York, Sunset Park, Books News

There’s a passage in Don DeLillo’s Americana where he describes walking down a busy sidewalk among a throng of New Yorkers. He captured this feeli...

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Authors On Screen

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truman Capote, Writers on Screen, James Franco, Book Movie, Virginia Wolfe, Authors on Screen, Film Book, Book to Film, The Hours, Movie, Film, Alen Ginsberg, Books News

Last week, Tina Fey was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and over the weekend PBS aired the made-for-TV ceremony. Whi...

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NY Magazine: The 20 Most Anticipated Books For The Fall

New York Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History of Love, James Ellroy, Michael Cunningham, Nicole Krauss, Tom Mccarthy, Best Books, Books, The Hours, C, Anticipated Books, Booklist, Books News

Our most anticipated fiction and nonfiction of fall. ...

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How to Dress an Author

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clothing, Female Authors, Project Runway, Emma Thompson, Time Magazine, Stranger Than Fiction, Books, Charles Dodgson, Literary Festivals, Vogue Magazine, Alice Liddell, Authors, The Hours, Jonathan Franzen, Style, Nicole Kidman, Fashion, What Not to Wear, Author Tours, Virginia Woolf, Pbs, Npr, The Corrections, Other Voices Other Rooms, Truman Capote, New York Times, Books News
Melanie Benjamin

I feel as if it's my personal mission to make over every dowdy author I see. I haven't quite learned how to do this tactfully, despite the strong temptation.

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Literary MVPs: Have The Best Books Won The Most Prizes?

The Millions | C. Max Magee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, The Hours, Literary Prizes, National Book Award, Wolf Hall, Nbcc, Pulitzer, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, Books News

With the awarding of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2009/2010 literary award season is now over, which gives us the opportunity to...

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An Open Letter From One of Your 51 Percent

Ashley Van Buren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, 51 Percent, Cathy Konrad, Nora Ephron, Michael Mann, When Harry Met Sally, Film, The Sweetest Thing, The Hangover, Movies, Silence of the Lambs, Nancy Pimental, Michael Cunningham, Meryl Streep, The Hours, Jezebel.com, New York Times, Manohla Dargis, Thelma and Louise, Rob Reiner, Entertainment News
Ashley Van Buren

I am one of your 51 percent. And, I am also your colleague. I want to see a reflection of myself on a screen just as much as I want to see my name in the credits.

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She's Gotta Cook It: Julie & Julia Gets Rich

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Douglas Adams, The Hours, Stanley Tucci, Talking Heads, Alex Prud'homme, Meryl Streep, Nora Ephron, My Life in France, Julia Child, Scott Rudin, Amy Adams, Bruschetta, Julie & Julia, Doubt, Julie Powell, Cooking Recipes, Cooking, Cooking Tips, Entertainment News
Gregory Weinkauf

if you like food, friendship, romance, sex, comedy, Paris or New York, you'll probably love Julie & Julia.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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The Reader is a Surprising Film: Nazis Can Be Sympathetic, Though Not Forgiven

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, Kate Winslet, Russnow, Der Vorleser, Summer of '42, Huckleberry Finn, Billy Elliot, Lena Olin, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Bernhard Schlink, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Bruno Ganz, The Hours, David Kross, Michael Russnow, Revolutionary Road, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

On the whole David Hare has written a fascinating and engrossing script, and Director Stephen Daldry has given us a taut and emotional filmmaking achievement.

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