One of Linda Leith Publishing's fall books is Mavis Gallant's only play, What Is To Be Done? When our friends who run All Lit Up asked for ideas for blog posts, we put together a proposal we hope they'd go for in the "Character Study" category, imagining the play as a movie and having fun casting it. This all was Carmelita McGrath's work, and she packed it off last week. So now look what they've done. Those brilliant women have not only used the post, but have included a movie poster for it, with an image of Joe Stalin a cast to die for:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? starring Chloe Grace Moretz
Abigail Breslin James McAvoy and
Meryl Street as Mrs. Bailley
Music by Karen O
Based on the play
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? BY MAVIS GALLANT
A LINDA LEITH PUBLISHING PRODUCTION
DIRECTED BY TERRY ZWIGOFF
Inspired!
Linda Leith
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The sights and sounds of Smyrna, Piraeus and Athens are brought to life by Fragoulis’s finely crafted prose. The cast of characters – manghas, manghissas, and the girls in Kyria Effie’s brothel, are fully realized. The result is a novel which is as tough and intelligent as Kivelli herself.
Review by Margaret Goldik
I find myself wondering if there might be a storytelling session for children in English one of these days -- an Heure du conte en anglais. All of which is reason to be encouraged by the organization of the Forum itself -- and by the evident care taken to be inclusive.
"A pig’s head, in case you are not aware, has eyes and eyelashes and teeth and a nose—all the makings of a face."
An excerpt from Jonah Campbell's Eaten Back to Life (Invisible Publishing, 2017).
by Guy Tiphane
A visit to schools supported by Child Aid, an organization that sets up school libraries and reading programs in poor areas of Guatemala.
