Beyond Blume: Mara Brock Akil Shares 9 More Books That Informed Her Netflix Hit ‘Forever’
With TV hits like Girlfriends, The Game, and Being Mary Jane under her belt, Mara Brock Akil is a bona fide legend—and her latest project, Netflix’s swoon-worthy Forever, is the…
Writer-Director Durga Chew-Bose on Françoise Sagan’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse’—And 7 More Books That Inspired Her First Film
Cécile (Lily McInerny) reading her novel, Claudia, Claudia—an oblique reference to one of Chew-Bose’s favorite actresses, Monica Vitti. (Vitti played a character named Claudia in Michelangelo Antonioni’s evocative, Mediterranean-set L’Avventura.)…