I Liked the Book Better

Today, Lise and Kevin gush about the Shirley Jackson classic The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959 and made into the 1963 film The Haunting, written by Nelson Gidding and directed by Robert Wise. Here is the YouTube video of David Warner reading the first chapter of the book. Here is the Esquire article... Continue Reading →

Lise and Kevin cover the Swedish novel A Man Called Ove, published in 2012 by Fredrik Backman (translated into English in 2013), and made into a film in 2016 written and directed by Hannes Holm. And here’s a correction and link: Lise talks about a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri. The actual title of the... Continue Reading →

Lise and Kolleen take a look at House of Sand and Fog, a novel published in 1999 by Andre Dubus III and made into the 2003 film directed by Vadim Perelman and written by Vadim Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto.

Lise and Kevin talk about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the YA book written by Stephen Chbosky and published in 1991, made into the 2012 film written and directed by Stephen Chbosky. For those of you who might have missed it, here is Bambi Meets Godzilla, a forerunner of the “author as screenwriter and... Continue Reading →

Lise and Kevin go over Kevin’s all-time favorite noir movie – 1947’s Out of the Past, directed by Jacques Tourneur, based on the 1946 book Build My Gallows High by Daniel Mainwaring (writing as Geoffrey Homes), who also wrote the screenplay.

Lise and Kevin cover The Dead Zone, written by Stephen King and published in 1979, made into the 1983 film written by Jeffrey Boam and directed by David Cronenberg.

Lise and Kolleen get all fangirly over Let the Right One In, written by John Ajvide Lindqvist and published in Sweden in 2004, translated into English and published in the United States in 2008. The book was made into a film in 2008, directed by Tomas Alfredson with the screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist. (DO... Continue Reading →

Lise and Kevin take on “All You Zombies,” a short story written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959, and made into the 2015 movie Predestination, directed by Michael and Robert Spierig and written by the Spierigs and Robert A. Heinlein. 

Lise and Kevin wrap up their discussion of The Lord of the Rings with Return of the King, written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1955, and adapted for the screen in 2003 in a film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson. 

Lise and special guest Kolleen Carney Hoepfner talk about We Need to Talk About Kevin, written by Lionel Shriver and published in 2003, and made into the 2011 movie directed by Lynne Ramsay and written for the screen by Lynne Ramsay, Lionel Shriver and Rory Kinnear.  And, for context on why Lise hated on Lionel... Continue Reading →