#Laura Z. Hobson

[newyorkthegoldenage]

When legendary performer Josephine Baker and her party were refused food service at the Stork Club on October 16, 1951, the NAACP organized a picket line in front of the chic night spot. Seen on October 22 are Bessie Buchanan, Baker's personal secretary; Laura Z. Hobson, author of "Gentleman's Agreement, a novel about anti-Semitism; and Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

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Wexler-McGill, Partners at Law in Crime

Based on the original work by Mac Conner, Illustration for "The Other Father" by Laura Z. Hobson. Cosmopolitan, November 1949.

[salmonpiffy]

Somehow, drawing these two just laying together and relaxing feels special to me

The pose was reference from Laura Z. Hobson’s artwork

Seeing this first time, my brain immediately thought of Fayetos

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recharging the battery

(reference: Mac Conner, Illustration for part one of “The Other Father” by Laura Z. Hobson. Cosmopolitan, November 1949)

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Free/Inexpensive/Small Press (Mostly Poetry) Books (2022/11/14)

Free Ebooks

From A to Z by Etel Adnan

A Spell for Living by Keisha-Gaye Anderson

This Body I Have Tried to Write by Ja’net Danielo

Criptiques, ed. Caitlin Wood

The Awful Truth by Diana Hamilton

Okay, Okay by Diana Hamilton

for the joy of it by anaïs peterson

Machete Moon by Arielle Cottingham

Dela Torre by Dani Putney

FeralScape by Michelle Detorie

Pay-What-You-Can Ebooks

Gay, Black, and Non-Binary Is by Prince Bush

sour milk by natali celeste tautou

Cisness or Pleasure by Alice Stoehr

What About the Rest of Your Life by Sung Yim

Prone to Separation by Mariel Fechik & Taylor Yocom

Inexpensive Ebooks

<personal fashion> by Sara Matson

Wikipedia Apocalyptica by Steven D. Schroeder

Seagull (Thinking of You) by Tina Satter

DEEP ELLUM by Brandon Hobson

Gravity by Ari Lohr

Agender Daydreams by Thokozani Mbwana

Drifting Bottles by Arden Hunter

PLACES by Charlie D’Aniello

From This Soil by Casey Bailey

DADDY ISSUES by Sal Kang

Stranger in the Pen by Mohamed Asem

The End, by Anna by A. Light Zachary

The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You're the Last one Around by Adrian Sobol

Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky

Borrow/Read Online

BEHIND TEETH by Emily Brandt

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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

gospel of regicide by Eunsong Kim

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These Days of Candy by Manuel Paul López

Indictus by Natalie Eilbert

Transgressive Circulation: Essays on Translation by Johannes Göransson

GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime by Chaun Webster

Slim Confessions by Sarah Minor

[SQUELCH PROCEDURES] by MLA Chernoff

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Objects from April and May by Zena Agha

an identity polyptych by Tameca L Coleman

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preparatory school for the end of the world by nat raum

Small Press Audiobooks (not on Amazon/Kobo/etc.)

Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition by Rachel Rabbit White (also includes PDF)

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Laura Z. Hobson

Laura Z. Hobson was born in New York City in 1900. Hobson wrote nine novels, an autobiography, as well as numerous articles and short stories. She is best known for her 1947 novel, Gentleman's Agreement, which explored antisemitism in America. Gentleman's Agreement was translated into 13 languages and sold more than one and a half million copies. It was also adapted into a film that won three Academy Awards. Much of Hobson's work dealt with difficult subjects. Her other other works include the 1945 novel Trespassers, which tackled fascism and immigration quotas, as well as the 1975 novel Consenting Adult, the story of a mother who comes to terms with her son's homosexuality.

Laura Z. Hobson died in 1986 at the age of 85.

[alredered]

Alredered Remembers Laura Z. Hobson, NYC-born novelist, wrote Gentleman's Agreement, on her birthday.

“He was a hoarder of books—he never could bring himself to throw any book away, so one or two of the ones he remembered owning ought to be somewhere in this conglomeration.” (Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947)

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2017:75 — Gentleman’s Agreement

(1947 - Elia Kazan) ***

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GREGORY PECK’S READING LIST

A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES THAT MANY OF GREGORY PECK’S MOVIES WERE BASED ON (with the movie title after)*

The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding (Spellbound) The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision) Duel in the Sun by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman’s Agreement) The Paradine Case by Robert Hichens (The Paradine Case) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway (The Macomber Affair) Twelve O’Clock High by Beirne Lay Jr. and Sy Bartlett (Twelve O’Clock High) The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Great Sinner) The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by C.S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower) Only the Valiant by Charles Marquis Warren (Only the Valiant) The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) The World in His Arms by Rex Beach (The World in His Arms) The Purple Plain by H.E. Bates (The Purple Plain) The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain (The Million Pound Note) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Moby Dick) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Ambush in Blanco Canyon by Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (The Big Country) The Bravados by Frank O'Rourke (The Bravados) On the Beachby Nevil Shute (On the Beach) Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action by S.L.A. Marshall (Pork Chop Hill) Beloved Infidel by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank (Beloved Infidel) The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird) The Executioners by John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear) Captain Newman, M.D. by Leo Rosten (Captain Newman, M.D.) Fallen Angel by Howard Fast (Mirage) The Stalking Moon by T.V. Olsen(The Stalking Moon) Mackenna's Gold by Will Henry (Mackenna's Gold) Marooned by Martin Caidin (Marooned) The Chairman by Jay Richard Kenned (The Chairman) An Exile by Madison Jones(I Walk The Line) The Lone Cowboy by Will James (Shoot Out) The Omen (A Franchise) by David Seltzer (and many others) (The Omen) Boarding Party by James Leasor (The Sea Wolves) The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican by J. P. Gallagher (The Scarlet and the Black) The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes (The Old Gringo) The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin (The Boys from Brazil)

*I do not recommend nor condone most of the books on this list, simply because I've not read them and I'm unsure of the content. The only one I’ve read is To Kill a Mockingbird (which I do recommend). Please do not take this as my personal taste, or even that of Gregory Peck’s; these were merely the books his films were adapted from. 

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Chapters: 26/26 Fandom: Lewis (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Hathaway/Laura Hobson/Robert Lewis Characters: James Hathaway, Laura Hobson, Robert Lewis (Morse & Lewis) Additional Tags: Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Advent Calendar Drabble, Drabble Collection Summary:

A drabble a day for the holiday season, one for each letter of the alphabet, featuring Robbie, Laura and James in their happily ever after.

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SOME BOOKS I'VE READ THIS YEAR THAT I RECOMMEND

NOVELS

Affinity by Sarah Waters

Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Cat's Eye and Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

What Is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeymi

Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

PLAYS

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neil

Suddenly Last Summer and The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

[thejugheadparadox]

Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson, Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

gentleman's agreement + based on a true story

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

see this is my plight i dont know shit. googled them both and they look brilliant tho. added to my ever-growing tbr that ill read when i like. finish my degree lol

giovanni's room

never heard of | never read | want to read | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

BOOK OF ALL TIME FR. NOWT ELSE TO SAY

put a book in my ask!

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The Relevance of Gentleman’s Agreement by Theresa Brown

“You only assured him he’s the most wonderful of all creatures - a white Christian American. You instantly gave him that lovely taste of superiority. The poison of millions of parents dropped on the minds of millions of children.” 

In GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (’47), a journalist finally comes up with an angle to crack a story wide open. And for this, he gets much more than he bargained for. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of 1947, this classic film is as relevant today as it was 72 years ago.

There is no more apt, conscientious hero in classic film than Gregory Peck. But while known for this status, audiences had just seen him as rotten to the core in DUEL IN THE SUN (’46) and as the great, white safari hunter in THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (’47). He’s a bit more subdued in this role as a writer and single dad (widowed) raising a 10-year-old son with the help of his mother. Peck is excellent as the journalist who wants to tackle this thing. This “thing” is anti-Semitism, and he’s just the guy who can do it. Tall, dark and attractive, his character is authentic, sincere, morally ethical but perhaps slightly judgmental. And boy does he have a fight ahead of him. See, the forces of anti-Semitism come at him from different angles: health care, his residence, employment, vacation spot and in his relationship. Things happen in quick order when you tell folks you’re Jewish. He’s ready to face it all, but when it reaches his little boy...

I mentioned relationship. Peck is attracted to a divorced school teacher played by the wonderful Dorothy McGuire. Her career to date has featured her in such hits as THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (’45), A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (’45) and THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (’46). As the love interest here, McGuire walks a fine line as a woman whose commitment to this cause is shaky at best, and their miscommunication causes friction in their relationship. McGuire and Peck have a lovely, sexy (for 1947) chemistry: he with his sonorous baritone and she with a voice like brushed velvet. They’re nice to watch. I totally believe them together. But their road is rocky.

Anne Revere plays Peck’s mother. There’s no finer character actress and she shows that here. ‘Ma’ is solid, loving, has common sense and is not above giving you a whack. This Academy Award winner (for NATIONAL VELVET, ’44) is a very real actor. You don’t see the strings. She speaks...not recites. You believe her. Revere has a great moment where she gives her two cents about the hopefulness of the future. She starts...

“You know something, Phil? I suddenly want to live to be very old. Very...” It goes on from there. 

See the movie. 

Ahhhh, the easy, breezy urban sophistication of Celeste Holm. I absolutely love her in this film. She’s the working girl with a heart of...heart. A gal with principles, suffering unrequited love. She’s the fashion editor (of course...what else?) of the magazine who can pal around, banter and quip with the boys. She likes Peck. She’s more on the same page with him about the scourge of anti-Semitism than his girlfriend. And maybe, as usual in the code of “the movies,” being a pal doesn’t make you quite sexually desirable. Oh I think she’s sexy and becoming as all get out. But Peck’s stuck on the upper crusty Bryn Mawr-ness of McGuire, while Holm is a little more street-wise Community College. Holm is on his side all the way and her moment on the couch giving Peck some tough love and stirring her tea, probably won her that Academy Award for this film’s Best Supporting Actress. She’s great.

John Garfield makes an appearance in the movie as Peck’s old friend Dave, who IS Jewish. It might be one thing to walk in another man’s shoes...but when you actually ARE the man—. Garfield is not all fire and brimstone and Lower East Side. He’s understated and good and thinks his friend is on a fool’s errand:

“...you’re concentrating a lifetime into a few weeks. You’re not changing the facts, you’re just making them hurt more.” 

A young Dean Stockwell plays Peck’s son. He is engaging and also, like Revere, keeps it real. He doesn’t seem like a “child actor.” He’s as natural as they come. When he’s hurt...you feel it.

My favorite scenes in the movie are with Peck and his secretary played by June Havoc. Their scenes are contentious, and they get to the brass tacks of internalized oppression when Havoc’s character admits to changing her name in order to get a job.

While other movie moguls shied away from the sensitive subject of anti-Semitism, many of them Jewish themselves, Darryl F. Zanuck was at the reins at 20th Century-Fox and took the helm to bring the Laura Z. Hobson novel to light. Elia Kazan does an Oscar-winning job at direction. But this production was not without some issues. Peck’s agent did not want him to take the part over fears it would hurt his career. (His last movie was made 51 years later!) After this film was made, the House Un-American Activities Committee came after Revere, Garfield and Kazan. One career stalled due to the blacklist, another’s career ended in a heart-attack after being hounded by HUAC and yet another named names and continued working.

Blatantly, quietly, obviously, insidiously, complicity, let me count the ways of anti-Semitism. To use another adverb, I enjoy this movie unabashedly. You can substitute homophobia, Islamophobia, misogyny or racism for anti-Semitism. GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT is as relevant today as it ever was. Sadly, too relevant.

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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

[alcalavicci]

So I have a thing where, if I find out a movie or something I watched was based on a book, I have to go find the book to read it and compare.

I noticed a ton of Bradford Dillman’s scripts were up for sale on eBay, including the one for One Away. (Compulsion wasn’t there- I’m betting that sold pretty quickly.) The front page noted it was by the author, who’d written the book of the same name. I found it in my library consortium and hopefully I should get it soon.

Other book adaptations Dean’s been in:

The Valley of Decision (by Marcia Davenport) The Green Years (by A. J. Cronin) Home Sweet Homicide (by Craig Rice. I read this one, thought it kinda read like a wish fulfillment fantasy? It was sweet but a bit not quite realistic enough?) Gentleman’s Agreement (by Laura Z. Hobson) Deep Waters (by Ruth Moore) The Secret Garden (by Frances Hodgson Barnett. I read this one as a kid) Stars in My Crown (by Joe David Brown) The Happy Years (The Lawrenceville Stories by Owen Johnson) Kim (by Rudyard Kipling. I have this on my Kindle and keep reading it in bits and pieces.) Compulsion (by Meyer Levin. Technically, this is an adaptation of the Broadway play, which in itself adapted the book.) Buick Electra Playhouse “The Killers” (by Ernest Hemingway) Sons and Lovers (by D. H. Lawrence. I’ve read this one- it’s DENSE.) Alfred Hitchcock Presents “The Landlady” (by Roald Dahl) Alfred Hitchcock Hour “Annabel” (The Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith. Compared to the book, the episode sucks. XD It adapts a tiny chunk of the novel and I liked seeing the whole psychological unspooling of David spread out better. Plus there’s a parallel I keep forgetting to put up...) Kraft Suspense Theatre “Their Own Executioners” (by Robert Cenadella) Rapture (by Phyllis Hastings) The Dunwich Horror (by H. P. Lovecraft. I love that Dean was a fan of Lovecraft, but I tried reading through a bit of this and just couldn’t get through it. Sorry, but I can’t really stand Lovecraft in longer doses) Night Gallery “Whisper” (by Martin Waddell) Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries “Unseen Alibi” (by Bruce Graeme) She Came to the Valley (by Cleo Dawson. I read this one, thought it was okay but not exactly film-worthy?) Born to be Sold (by Lynne McTaggart. Reviews for this book don’t even pop up, so it must’ve been a flash in the pan) Wrong is Right (The Better Angels by Charles McCarry) Alsino and the Condor (Alsino by Pedro Padro. I don’t think there’s an English translation of this novel?) Dune (by Frank Herbert) To Live and Die in L. A. (by Gerald Petievich) Papa Was a Preacher (by Alyene Porter. I read this. It was cute, but the movie took a ton of liberties to adapt it into a linear order. Plus Dean’s hobo angel character isn’t even in the book either!) Gardens of Stone (by Nicholas Proffitt) The Long Haul (by Oswaldo França Jr. Again, another novel without a translation) Deadline for Murder (The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan) The Langoliers (by Stephen King. I read this years before actually watching the movie, and I’m too traumatized by another story in the same collection to pick it up again) The Rainmaker (by John Grisham. I read this at some point) Water Damage (by Gregory Ward) What Katy Did (by Susan Coolidge. I read an excerpt from this book as a kid but never got around to reading the whole thing) Buffalo Soldiers (by Robert O’Connor) The Manchurian Candidate (by Richard Condon. Technically a remake of the movie which adapted that book) C. O. G. (”Naked” by David Sedaris) Deep in the Darkness (by Michael Laimo)

[cinema-tv-etc]

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film which was based on Laura Z. Hobson's best selling novel of the same name. It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).

The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the same subject, Crossfire, which was released the same year (though that film was originally a story about homophobia, later changed to antisemitism).

It was released on DVD as part of the 20th Century Fox Studio Classics collection.

In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman%27s_Agreement