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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers A Novel

Max Porter

Soon to be adapted as the major motion picture THE THING WITH FEATHERS, starring Benedict Cumberbatch Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar--a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their Lon...

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The episode mentioned the novella as the source material for a new film project, noting it was a misquote of an Emily Dickinson line and praising its inventive exploration of male grief.

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It's based on an amazing novella called Grief Is the Thing with Feathers which is a misquote of the famous Emily Dickinson line love is the thing with feathers by Max Porter.

— Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch"

Episode: "Benedict Cumberbatch"

The episode mentioned the novella as the source material for a new film project, noting it was a misquote of an Emily Dickinson line and praising its inventive exploration of male grief.

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It's based on an amazing novella called Grief Is the Thing with Feathers which is a misquote of the famous Emily Dickinson line love is the thing with feathers by Max Porter.

Max Porter is a titan of a heroic human being in actual physical stature and in talent; he's created a space where male grief is examined in the most unimaginably crazy and imaginative way.

The story is about a dad who suffers a sudden bereavement, and it's about dealing with it as an acceptance of something you live with.

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