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And he became the inspiration, so it was rumored, for Alden Pyle and Graham Greene's The Quiet American.

He directed Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and directed East of Eden, Splendor in the Grass, Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd, and The Last Tycoon.

And I learned that early on when I did American Sniper, it was the best way to create a human being would be to take all of myself and the research and of Chris Kyle was the human and then the character in American Sniper.

Her book, 'The Sum of Us,' examines a question at the heart of American life: Why do so many Americans believe that progress for one group means loss for another?

Her book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, came out in 2021, but it reads like it was written for this exact moment.

The economists at Citigroup found that the black-white economic divide had cost the U.S. GDP $16 trillion over the course of 20 years.

In her new memoir, Worthy, Pinkett Smith contended with the way she coped in life, growing up with parents who struggled with drug addiction, and the choices she made to survive.

Jada Pinkett Smith's new memoir is titled Worthy.

Emily Bronte's 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, has been adapted for the screen numerous times. The latest version stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Bronte's ill-fated lovers, Catherine and Heathcliff, and opens in theaters this week.

More than a decade ago, The New Yorker published a piece titled Can Wuthering Heights Work on Screen? in which my now colleague Joshua Rothman argued that Emily Bronte's classic is beloved not just for its romance, but also for its strangeness, its intensity, and its violence.

The extravagant new movie, Wuthering Heights, written and directed by the English filmmaker Emerald Fennell, is very much in this vein. It could be the most reductive version of this material ever made.

It was based on a book by David Simon, who later wrote for the show, then created a string of his own brilliant TV series starting with The Wire.

And we had David Simon's book, A Homicide a Year on the Killing Streets as a launching pad.

And it's a book by David Simon, Homicide, The Year on the Killing Streets.

most famously Roberto Bolao's great novel, 2666

He's also one of the stars of the new Broadway revival of the David Mamet play, Glengarry Glen Ross.

and a children's book titled Simone.

When I heard that Apple TV Plus would be airing a series called Bad Monkey, I knew it would be funny. That's because it's based on the novel by Carl Hyasson, which I read in 2013 when he was on Fresh Air. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and our interview, which we'll listen back to today.

Bad Monkey is a typically funny and offbeat murder mystery set in Key West.

Carl Hyasson, welcome back to Fresh Air. I thought we would begin with having you read us a bit from Bad Monkey.

the murder plot begins with the very first paragraph of the book, which, with your permission, I'll just read it.

Carl Hyasson's novel Bad Monkey is now a TV series streaming on Apple TV+, starring Vince Vaughn.

By that point, he had become a countercultural icon, known for his boldly experimental works like Naked Lunch, his struggles with addiction, and his many sexual relationships with men and women.

His latest, The Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, is now out in paperback.

Writer Evan Thomas recorded last year. His book, Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, is now out in paperback.

His new book is Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II.

Evan Thomas recorded in June of last year. His book, Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, is now out in paperback.

She was last on Fresh Air in 2022 to talk about her bestselling book, Confidence Man, the Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

Maggie Haberman is senior political correspondent for The New York Times and author of the book Confidence Man, the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America.

Maggie Haberman is senior political correspondent for The New York Times and author of the book Confidence Man, the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America.

I met Salman probably around 1982 and Midnight's Children had just come out and won the Booker Prize.

He's written three books Age of Ambition chasing fortune truth and faith in the new China ...

You see why he's been cast to star as a charismatic IRA leader in the upcoming TV adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's book, Say Nothing.

And I think also with Apocalypse Now, actually, I was, the reason why I watched it was because I was studying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in AP English. And my teacher said, oh, there's an adaptation of it, a loose adaptation called Apocalypse Now.

Perry's last book, South to America, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2022.

Now he's back with Queer, an adaptation of William S. Burrow's autobiographical novel.

He began writing Queer in 1952, while awaiting trial for the killing of his wife, Joan Vollmer, during a drunken game of William Tell.

Burroughs never finished the book, which was finally published in its incomplete form in 1985.

Even when Queer's narrative loses momentum, it's fascinating to see a filmmaker, known for his lush, beautiful surfaces, try to connect with a writer's famously uncompromising ugliness.

For the first hour or so, the screenplay by Justin Kuritskas is largely faithful to its source.