That’s SO Sofia.
017: news + letter: the virgin suicides and prolific book adaptation movies
hi everyone! I missed you guys! What’ve you been up to? Tell me, I’d love to know!
If you’re a member of our Certified group chat, stay tuned because we’re going to have our first feedback poll, so if there are any changes you’d like to see on Certified, you’ll have a place to share your ideas!
Anyway, I know you’re wondering what’s happening in literature:
Dutch author Yael van der Wouden has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for *The Safekeep*, a novel set in 1960s Netherlands that explores an unexpected romance.1
Here’s the shortlist for the Women’s prize for Fiction:
Good Girl by Aria Aber
All Fours by Miranda July
The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies aged 862
Frederick Forsyth is a British author and former journalist, best known for his thriller novels. Born on August 25, 1938, in Ashford, Kent, England, he began his career as a reporter for Reuters and later the BBC. Forsyth gained international acclaim with his debut novel, The Day of the Jackal (1971), a political thriller about an attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle. His works are known for their meticulous research, fast-paced plots, and realism. Other notable titles include The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and The Fourth Protocol.
Many of his books have been adapted into successful films (which is the theme of our newsletter this Sunday)
Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.
Oregon passed Senate Bill 1098, which stops schools from banning books based on topics like sexuality, religion, or the author's identity. It was supported by advocacy groups and aims to protect students’ right to read. The bill passed mostly along party lines, with one Republican backing it and criticizing book bans driven by fear.
“I only wanna put out books that I would want to give to someone,” she says. “There’s a lot of heart in these because they’re subjects I care about so much.”3
Edited by the one and only Sofia Coppola (or romy mars’s mom) The Virgin Suicides is already out and is available to pre-order now!
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Seeing the event for the release of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES book made me reflect on the first time I’ve ever seen the movie. It was truly like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my whole life, and it fully changed my teenage brain, it truly altered the chemistry of it, as I’m sure it happened to many of you. If nothing, it made me want to read the book by Jeffrey Eugenides, and it made me fall in love with it even more.
The movie gave me kind of a support system to imagine the characters and the environment in my head, and I’m pretty sure you can’t imagine Lux Lisbon without thinking about the great Kirsten Dunst. If a movie based on a book, like The Virgin Suicides, brings you closer to the original story and if it makes you want to read the actual book, it’s a good movie adaptation, right?
I think it might be a little more complicated than that. Let’s investigate.