Interview with the Vampire TV Show Comes to AMC in 2022
After years of development, the television adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is finally debuting on AMC and AMC+ in 2022. Rolin Jones (Perry Mason) will serve as showrunner for this adaptation, and Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad) will executive produce. Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice will also act as executive producers on the project. With this show, AMC hopes to expand upon Vampire Chronicles universe, similar to what the network accomplished with The Walking Dead.
Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti Team Up for HBO Max’s For Your Own Good
Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti are teaming up to produce and HBO Max drama, adapting Samantha Downing’s forthcoming novel For Your Own Good. The author will also serve as a consulting producer on the drama, which is a dark academia thriller set within the halls of New England’s prestigious Belmont Academy. A search is currently underway for a writer to adapt the novel.
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Winners Announced
The Horn Book Magazine announced in a news release the winners of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, which are given annually to outstanding achievement in children’s literature. Jordan Scott and Sydney Smith won the picture book award for I Talk Like a River, a story about a young boy who struggles with a stutter. Rita Williams-Garcia won the fiction and poetry award for her novel A Sitting in St. James, which follows a 19th-century Louisiana family and the enslaved people who serve them. Finally, Paula Yoo won the nonfiction award for From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement. The book looks back at the 1982 slaying of a Chinese American man in Michigan. The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were established in 1967. Previous winners include Elizabeth Acevedo for The Poet X, Angie Thomas for The Hate U Give, and Rebecca Stead for When You Reach Me.
Pairing Books with Bo Burnham’s Inside
Comedian and musician Bo Burnham released a new comedy special, Inside, on Netflix on May 30, and everyone is talking about it. If you’ve been listening to the soundtrack from Bo Burnham’s Inside on repeat, try these books paired with your favorite songs!