Afire (2023)
A writer whose 2nd novel stinks retreats with a friend to a seaside cabin to revise it where they become involved with a girl already there.
The Blackening (2022)
A switch on the usual trapped victims in a horror movie–the entire group is Black
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (1996)
True story of how a white Miss.D.A. & the widow of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers finally brought the murderer to justice years later.
I Kill Giants (2017)
A young, imaginative girl traumatized by grief conjures up “giants” but fortunately is befriended by a classmate & her school counselor.
Important Books in My Life
Sunday (Sept. 18) was the beginning of National Book Banning Week, so this is the first of a series of reminiscences about the influence of books in my life, something I have been thinking about for a long time. I don’t know if any of them have been banned, but each has been important …
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
A girl growing up alone in a Southern marsh, forgotten by a lover who goes away & accused of killing another, succeeds as an author.
Petit Maman (2021)
A magical tale in which a lonely girl during a period of grief meets in the woods her mother at the same age as she.
The Underground Railroad (2021)
Set in an imaginary South where the Underground Railroad sends real trains through tunnels, this is the story of Cora who boards it in Georgia in her quest for freedom.
Crip Camp (2021)
How in the 60s an upstate NY camp for disabled help shape many of the activists who went on to fight the federal government for equal rights.