Waubgeshig Rice and Jennifer David Host New Indigenous Lit Podcast
The first episode of Storykeepers, a new monthly podcast about Indigenous literature, released March 4 on Apple and Spotify. First Nations authors Waubgeshig Rice (Moon of the Crusted Snow) and Jennifer David (Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) host the show, with funding from the Ontario Arts Council. Rice and David plan to keep each episode informal and unscripted, so each episode feels like being a part of an in-person book club. In the first episode, Rice and David discuss Daniel Heath Justice’s Why Indigenous Literatures Matters.
Sarah Gailey’s Novel The Echo Wife to be Adapted Into a Film by Annapurna
Annapurna has optioned the rights to adapt author Sarah Gailey’s most recent novel The Echo Wife into a feature film. In the sci-fi novel The Echo Wife, which was published in February of this year by Tor Books, Evelyn Caldwell is a brilliant scientist who discovers her ex-husband Nathan has stolen her clone development research to create Evelyn’s genetic replica. And he’s been living with her clone for months. Gailey will be an executive producer on the film project.
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters is Being Adapted for TV
Detransition, Baby, author Torrey Peters’ debut novel, which was published in January of this year, is already being adapted into a television series. The novel follows three women—transgender and cisgender—brought together by an unexpected pregnancy. Peters will executive produce and write the pilot episode of the series, which will be a half-hour dramadey. Joan Rater and Tony Phelan of Grey’s Anatomy will also join the show as executive producers and showrunners.
The Ever-Growing Challenges of Getting Books into Prisons
The pandemic is making it harder than ever for organizations to get books to the incarcerated — and this is just one new development in the history of a process that was already plagued by problems.