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In this author interview, I speak with Kristen Lopez, the film editor at The Wrap whose articles have appeared at Variety, MTV, TCM, and Roger Ebert. She joins me today to talk about her latest book, But Have You Read the Book?, a look at fantastic books that have been made into films over the last 100 years.

Listen to hear about how Kristen went about picking the books to include in this project, where he desire to read the book before seeing the movie came from, and why she feels it's helpful to read the book first.
 
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Dune by Frank Herbert
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• True Grit by Charles Portis
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
• Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir by Piper Laurie
• Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• Dune directed by Denis Villeneuve
• True Grit (1969) directed by Henry Hathaway
• True Grit (2010) directed by The Coen Brothers
• Little Women (1949) directed by Mervyn LeRoy
• Little Women (1994) directed by Gillian Armstrong
• Little Women (2019) directed by Greta Gerwig
• Rebecca (1940) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Rebecca (2020) directed by Ben Wheatley
• Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck
• Jarhead directed by Sam Mendes
• Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson
• The Fountainhead directed by King Vidor
• Bullet Train directed by David Leitch
• Gone Girl directed by David Fincher
• To Kill a Mockingbird directed by Robert Mulligan
• Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli
• American Psycho directed by Mary Harron
• My Girl directed by Howard Zieff
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes directed by Howard Hawks
• Almost Famous directed by Cameron Crowe

Emily Edwards