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Jason Diamond

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Writer/editor/hot dog connoisseur/Chicagoan in Brooklyn. Memoir: SEARCHING FOR JOHN HUGHES (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016).

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A 9/11 Story About the Arrogance of a Man’s Apathy

Jun 21 - Catherine Lacey

In Search of the Ultimate Teen Movie Soundtrack

Nov 29 - Jason Diamond

Drugs, Neon, and Danzig: Revisiting 1987’s Less Than Zero Adaptation

Mar 22 - Jason Diamond

PODCAST: Why Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction Is So Hard to Adapt for Film

Jan 26 - Jason Diamond

PODCAST: Jason Diamond and Jen Vafids Dissect the 1998 Great Expectations Adaptation

Dec 16 - Jason Diamond

How Literature Smells: Scent in Tanwi Nandini Islam’s Bright Lines

Aug 11 - Jason Diamond

You Should Never Go Home: Fiction and the Suburbs in Judy Blume and Karolina Waclawiak

Aug 7 - Jason Diamond

INTERVIEW: Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble

Feb 6 - Jason Diamond

What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Comedy: on reading Poking a Dead Frog

Jan 27 - Jason Diamond

Why 2014 Was the Year of the Essay

Dec 16 - Jason Diamond

Searching for the Headless Horseman

Oct 28 - Jason Diamond

How to Build a Novel About a Teen: on Caitlin Moran’s How to Build a Girl

Oct 2 - Jason Diamond

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