Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of ON THE ROAD. Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993). Eugenides’s chilling debut novel centers on the lives of five sisters in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s....
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of THE SPECTACULAR NOW. Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (Viking, 1957). Based on the cross-country travels of Kerouac and his friends, it is considered a defining work of...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?/BLADE RUNNER. Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is THE SPECTACULAR NOW by Tim Tharp (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2008).
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Our first YPG Book to Film Club selection of 2014 will be DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick (Doubleday, 1968). The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near future, where Earth and its populations have been damaged greatly by nuclear war during World War Terminus. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty...
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We’re shaking things up in January with a special edition of YPG after hours gatherings. It’s YPG “Film to Book,” but it’s SO. MUCH. MORE. If you signed up last month, you should have already gotten your free copy of THE DISASTER ARTIST: MY LIFE INSIDE THE ROOM, THE GREATEST BAD MOVIE EVER MADE...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club meeting and discussion. In the spirit of the upcoming holiday season (and based on book club voting), our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens. The story tells of bitter and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge’s...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck. In the spirit of Halloween, our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is WARM BODIES by Isaac Marion (Atria Books, 2011). After R, a highly unusual zombie, saves a...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer. Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (Viking, 1939). Set during the Great Depression, this American classic follows a poor family of tenant farmers...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick. It’s summertime, and our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is a classic beach read: TWILIGHT, based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown, 2005). This brooding girl-meets-vampire love...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick. It’s summertime, and our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is a classic beach read: TWILIGHT, based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown, 2005).
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