This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by David Baldacci’s One Good Deed.
Tonight Show Summer Read Revealed
The Tonight Show fans had five books they could vote on to select the show’s summer book club read. Nearly 1 million votes later the winner is: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane. Which immediately jumped more than 500 spots on Amazon’s bestseller list.
Call Me By Your Name Director Eyes Classic Novel
Luca Guadagnino, who directed the adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, is in talks to direct, and produce, the adaptation of the classic novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. His vision is “a story that stays true to the text but with a contemporary, ultra-kinetic feel.”
Authors Open Letter To Congress
Forty authors–including Neil Gaiman, Khaled Hosseini, Ariel Dorfman and Viet Thanh Nguyen–who are either immigrants or born to immigrants in the U.S. wrote an open letter in The Nation to congress pleading for action regarding the inhumane treatment of immigrants at the U.S./Mexico border. “The reports of death, abuse, overcrowding, untreated illness, malnutrition and lack of basic hygiene are abhorrent, especially since many of those affected are children.”