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Stills of films adapted from Library of America books. Clockwise from top left: Intruder in the Dust (1949), The Age of Innocence (1993), East of Eden (1955), The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Haunting (1963), and Hello, Dolly! (1969)
LOA at the Movies: Film Adaptations from the Brilliant to the Bizarre
with Justin Chang, Farran Smith Nehme, Carrie Rickey, Gene Seymour, and Mike Sragow
Tuesday, December 17, 6:00–7:00 PM ET
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What are movie critics’ favorite films adapted from Library of America classics? In this special holiday LOA LIVE program, five opinionated cinephiles debate the silver screen versions that equal, surpass, or fall fascinatingly (and sometimes hilariously) short of their source material.
Join acclaimed movie mavens Justin Chang, Farran Smith Nehme, Carrie Rickey, Gene Seymour, and Mike Sragow for a lively survey of must-see films based on LOA works: noir masterpieces, historical dramas, gritty Westerns, family sagas, Technicolor musicals, gripping adventures, chilling horror, and much more.
Contribution to attend: $15
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We thank our promotional partner: the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics & Writers.
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Please note: A complete listing of LOA’s Lift Every Voice events centered on African American poetry can be found at africanamericanpoetry.org.
2024
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“A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs
November 14, 2024
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1925: The Scopes Trial, the Culture War, and Four American Masterpieces
October 16, 2024
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Burning Down the House: Reading Faulkner’s Short Stories Now
September 17, 2024
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Faith, Fiction, and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
May 21, 2024
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Robert Frost: Our Poet for All Seasons
April 16, 2024
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Deadline Artist: The Genius of Jimmy Breslin
March 6, 2024
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Black Writers of the Founding Era
February 6, 2024
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Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel
January 17, 2024
2023
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I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s
December 5, 2023
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Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am
November 8, 2023
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The Startling Theater of Adrienne Kennedy
October 25, 2023
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The Mysterious Greatness of Gatsby
September 21, 2023
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A Celebration of Ray Bradbury
July 19, 2023
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Rediscovering the Pathbreaking Fiction of Nancy Hale with Kate Bolick
June 21, 2023
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‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis
May 17, 2023
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Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
April 20, 2023
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Back to the Future Is Female!
March 15, 2023
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
February 15, 2023
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Ordinary Heroes: Bruce Catton’s Civil War Masterpiece
January 18, 2023
2022
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The Unknown Kerouac
November 14, 2022
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Lying and Politics: The Relevance of Hannah Arendt
October 20, 2022
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A Celebration of Oscar Hijuelos
September 15, 2022
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A Tribute to Gary Snyder
July 20, 2022
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Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen
June 29, 2022
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The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch
June 1, 2022
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Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 18, 2022
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Our Town for Our Time
May 3, 2022
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World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
March 16, 2022
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Filming Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
February 24, 2022
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Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
January 25, 2022
2021
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American Christmas Stories
December 15, 2021
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Rediscovering Rachel Carson
November 22, 2021
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Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane
October 28, 2021
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Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature
October 6, 2021
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The Light in the Piazza: From Page to Stage
July 14, 2021
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On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing
June 17, 2021
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Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling
May 19, 2021
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E. O. Wilson: An Earth Day Tribute
April 22, 2021
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Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
April 15, 2021
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The Great American Western on Page and Screen
March 30, 2021
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Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
March 18, 2021
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk
March 3, 2021
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Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
February 18, 2021
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American Democracy: The Task Before Us
January 27, 2021
2020
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Peanuts at 70
December 16, 2020
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The Genius of Hemingway: Robert W. Trogdon, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
December 2, 2020
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The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100: A New Look at Women’s Suffrage
November 19, 2020 (video not available)
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
October 29, 2020
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics: Hofstadter in the Time of Trump
October 13, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”
September 23, 2020
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Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of Presidential Succession, with Ted Widmer
September 10, 2020
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It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century
August 26, 2020
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The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy
August 6, 2020
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Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History
July 28, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street
July 16, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”
June 25, 2020
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Harold Bloom and the American Canon, with David Mikics
June 16, 2020
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Andrew J. Bacevich and Sean Wilentz: What Is American Conservatism?
June 4, 2020
