By: Audrey Niffenegger,
on 10/22/2015
Describe your latest book. I recently edited and illustrated a collection of ghost stories, Ghostly. It features stories by E. A. Poe, Neil Gaiman, Saki, Kelly Link, and M. R. James, and also some stories by writers who one might not associate with ghost stories, including A. S. Byatt, P. G. Wodehouse, and Edith Wharton. [...]
By: KatherineS,
on 6/5/2015
Some reviewers of the first episodes of the current BBC1 adaptation have dismissed it is over-blown fantasy, even childish, yet Clarke’s characters are only once removed from the very real magical world of early nineteenth-century England. What few readers or viewers realise is that there were magicians similar to Strange and Norrell at the time: there really were 'Friends of English Magic', to whom the novel’s Mr Segundus appealed in a letter to The Times.
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 4/29/2015
BBC One has unveiled a trailer for the Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell adaptation. The video embedded above offers glimpses of actors Bertie Carvel and Eddie Marsan playing the titular characters.
According to the press release, screenwriter Peter Harness adapted the Susanna Clarke’s debut novel for this seven-part drama series. BBC America will bring the show to North American audiences this summer. (via Entertainment Weekly)
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on 10/4/2013
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