novelization
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In 2011 two sportswriters, Michael Bamberger and Alan Shipnuck, co-authored “The Swinger,” a hilarious and barely disguised novelization of Mr. Woods’s postscandal career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Anita’s story often feels like the novelization of one of the art world’s most notorious unsolved mysteries: Did this young and gifted artist accidentally fall?
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
And then also, why did the gay poet Paul Monette write the novelization for the movie?
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after his best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
As he scribbled an inscription onto the title page, he said, “All I ask in exchange is that you read this brilliant and haunting novelization of my favorite video game.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
Jon Land, a former board member of the International Thriller Writers and the author of several of the recent "Murder, She Wrote" novelizations, credits the show with the emergence of cozy mysteries as a genre.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022
Dark Horse Comics published graphic novelizations of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and other properties on license from Fox, which subsequently relicensed the novelizations to Boom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
It’s pretty dumb when novelizations flesh out details or explain plot points of multi-film sagas, but the thought of applying that model to a one-off movie is loathsome.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021
Alan Dean Foster, author of several Star Wars novelizations, says Disney hasn’t paid him his royalties.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2020
Is it not odd that most adaptations of successful stories and most novelizations of successful plays are failures?
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
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