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Books: 4 stunning fiction debuts by Bay Area authors of color

While many of us will remember the last year as a time when superstar authors published highly anticipated follow-ups — think Michelle Obama, Jennifer Egan and Hanya Yanagihara — it was also a banner year for emerging voices.

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A Little Life: James Norton set to star in West End adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller

Ivo van Hove, whose shows include A View from the Bridge and Network, is set to direct

Evening Standard

Hanya Yanagihara’s 'A Little Life' to be adapted for stage

Author Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling novel 'A Little Life' is being adapted for stage. And buzz is that actor James Norton will be seen in the West End Adaptation.

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James Norton to star in West End version of bestselling novel A Little Life

Author Hanya Yanagihara and director Ivo van Hove adapt ‘mesmerising’ story about effects of child abuse for London stage

The Guardian - UK

A Little Life: James Norton to star in English-language stage premiere of mammoth novel in West End

Ivo Van Hove’s original Dutch-language production opened in Amsterdam in 2018 and was four hours long

The Independent UK

A Little Life: four-hour adaptation of divisive queer novel heading to Adelaide festival

Ivo van Hove’s play will make its Australian debut in Adelaide in 2023, and be performed in Dutch with subtitles

The Guardian - AU

Diverse showcase at 2023 Adelaide Festival

The program for the 2023 Adelaide Festival has something for everyone - but some shows may prove more challenging than others.

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The week in theatre: A Little Life; Medea; Muster Station: Leith; Detention Dialogues

The hurt is all too real in Ivo van Hove’s visceral staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller; Liz Lochhead’s Scots Medea burns bright; and audience members abandon sinking Britain in Grid Iron’s latest

The Guardian - UK

A Little Life review – Hanya Yanagihara drama is not for the faint-hearted

Ivo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage

The Guardian - UK

Ivo van Hove: ‘UK’s theatres can teach its politicians a lesson about life after Brexit’

As the Belgian director brings his new production of A Little Life to Edinburgh, he says the British stage has been brilliant at maintaining links with Europe

The Guardian - UK

Barack Obama shares his 2022 summer reading list

Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories

The Independent UK

Barack Obama issues his 2022 summer reading list

Former president recommends 14 books in a wide variety of categories

The Independent UK

Planes, trains and automobiles — how to fix your summer holiday

Your flight’s been cancelled, you still haven’t got your luggage back from the last trip and you’re about to give up on summer. But, wait! From ferries and trains and refund hacks, Juliana Piskorz has the solution

Evening Standard

Summer reading: the 50 hottest new books for a great escape

From pageturning thrillers and comic novels to an antidote to doomscrolling – our pick of the best new fiction and nonfiction. Plus 10 brilliant paperbacks, and 10 great reads for children and teens

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Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival

Coinciding with the federal election, this year’s festival buzzed with big ideas about politics, hope and writing. Here are 10 things we learned

The Guardian - UK

How could anybody dream of turning the brilliant A Little Life into another Sex and the City?

Hanya Yanagihara has written a screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel and the studios are not interested. But done right, it could be the ultimate box set, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

The best TV series never made? Script for A Little Life has been ‘rejected by everyone’

Hanya Yanagihara says executives wanted her harrowing bestseller about abuse and suicide given a ‘Sex and the City’ makeover

Evening Standard

‘I don’t follow the contemporary literary scene’—Hanya Yanagihara on cultural appropriation and why she never reads her own reviews

Ahead of her appearance at the Southbank Centre this weekend, the bestselling author of A Little Life and To Paradise chats to Patricia Nicol about the expectations placed on female authors and the idea of the great American novel

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