Last year, the Man Booker Prize — the most prestigious book award in Britain and probably the world — announced it would, for the first time, consider any book written in English and published in the U.K. On Tuesday, its judges made good on their threat; on their final “short list” of six books are two Americans: Karen Jay Fowler (for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) and Joshua Ferris. To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Ferris’s third novel, is the often hilarious, often depressing existential howl of a New York dentist embroiled in a pseudo-ancient religion. We called Ferris up yesterday to talk about his new accolade.Congratulations on making the short list. How are you?Well, thanks. I should be good for the rest of the week. And then what if you win?Oh, yeah, that could last a month. But it was a surprise just to be long-listed.
- 9/11/2014
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
For the first time since it was established in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is open to authors from outside the British Commonwealth. And it shows, with only one author on the list of 13 coming from a Commonwealth nation. (That would be Australia's Richard Flanagan.) Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in April, was nowhere to be found. Joshua Ferris, U.S.To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Siri Hustvedt, U.S.The Blazing World Richard Powers, U.S. Orfeo Karen Joy Fowler, U.S.We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Richard Flanagan, AustraliaThe Narrow Road to the Deep North Howard Jacobson, Great BritainJ Neel Mukherjee, Great BritainThe Lives of Others Paul Kingsnorth, Great BritainThe Wake David Mitchell, Great Britain The Bone Clocks David Nicholls, Great BritainUs Ali Smith, Great BritainHow to Be Both Joseph O'Neill, Ireland (but lives in the U.S.)The Dog Niall Williams,...
- 7/23/2014
- by Gilbert Cruz
- Vulture
Lynn Shelton ("Your Sister's Sister," "Humpday") is at work on an adaptation of Mishna Wolff's acclaimed 2009 Seattle-set memoir "I'm Down".
The book deals with Wolff's experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children than the ones at her upper class, private school filled with mostly white kids. She also fights for acceptance in her neighborhood as she is perceived as "too white".
Wolff has Sundance Labs turn it into a script. Shelton got it a year ago and has been rewriting and rewriting, and they are just about ready to go out to actors. Anne Carey will produce.
Shelton's immediate next project is "Laggies" which begins shooting in June. She was attached to an adaptation of Joshua Ferris' "Then We Came To The End," but that is no longer the case.
The book deals with Wolff's experience of being white while growing up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and having a different financial situation and culture than the other white children than the ones at her upper class, private school filled with mostly white kids. She also fights for acceptance in her neighborhood as she is perceived as "too white".
Wolff has Sundance Labs turn it into a script. Shelton got it a year ago and has been rewriting and rewriting, and they are just about ready to go out to actors. Anne Carey will produce.
Shelton's immediate next project is "Laggies" which begins shooting in June. She was attached to an adaptation of Joshua Ferris' "Then We Came To The End," but that is no longer the case.
- 4/30/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lynn Shelton is nothing if not prolific. Since her 2006 feature debut "We Go Way Back," she's made five films, and since "Humpday" became a crossover hit, she's only gotten busier. That film was followed by "Your Sister's Sister" in 2011, and barely a year later, she was back with another feature, "Touchy Feely," which premiered at Sundance back in January. And in between all of that (plus occasional cameos in the likes of "Safety Not Guaranteed" and "Prince Avalanche"), she's become an in-demand TV director, with her work including episodes of "Mad Men," "Ben & Kate" and "New Girl." There's no sign of letting up any time soon, as Shelton revealed when we caught up with her at Sundance London over the weekend, where she was supporting the international premiere of the distinctive and excellent "Touchy Feely." She's currently prepping to shoot her next film, "Laggies," but we asked if her adaptation...
- 4/29/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The Office's B.J. Novak signed a two-book deal with Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher announced today. The first book, a collection of stories, is scheduled for 2014. His agent Richard Abate told The New York Times that the book was analogous to Woody Allen. Others compared it to Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to the End). Novak is adapting the stories from a series of live shows he performed at Upright Citizens Brigade. The paper also reported Novak received a seven-figure advance for the deal. Earlier, Publishers Weekly revealed that nine publishers were
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- 4/11/2013
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The term may entice a groan to some, but Lynn Shelton truly is a pioneer of “mumblecore,” the low-budget, bootstrapping indie genre. Her most recent feature, Humpday, was a pristine example of how to do it right. Her next film, Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass and Mike Birbiglia will have a premiere at Tiff next month (with the first still revealed a few days ago), but we now have word on what her next (next) film may be.
Variety reports Shelton is attached to a new indie titled Laggies,”which follows a woman who, unsure of how to respond to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, pretends to go on a retreat but actually ends up spending a week with her new friends, all of whom are in high school.”
Andrea Seigel wrote the script, it being her first credit, with the lead described as...
Variety reports Shelton is attached to a new indie titled Laggies,”which follows a woman who, unsure of how to respond to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, pretends to go on a retreat but actually ends up spending a week with her new friends, all of whom are in high school.”
Andrea Seigel wrote the script, it being her first credit, with the lead described as...
- 8/19/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Actress and director Lynn Shelton won a Sundance Special Jury Prize and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for her comedy Humpday, about two longtime buds who end up making a sex film together as part of a dare. Variety reported today that Shelton signed on to direct Laggies, about a 28-year-old woman unsure how to respond to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal so she takes off for a week with her new friends, who just happen to be high school kids. Andrea Seigel wrote the script with Anonymous Content producing. Shelton also boarded the adaptation of the Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End to direct for producers Ted Hope and Anne Carey.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actress and director Lynn Shelton won a Sundance Special Jury Prize and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for her comedy Humpday, about two longtime buds who end up making a sex film together as part of a dare. Variety reported today that Shelton signed on to direct Laggies, about a 28-year-old woman unsure how to respond to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal so she takes off for a week with her new friends, who just happen to be high school kids. Andrea Seigel wrote the script with Anonymous Content producing. Shelton also boarded the adaptation of the Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End to direct for producers Ted Hope and Anne Carey.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actress and director Lynn Shelton won a Sundance Special Jury Prize and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards for her comedy Humpday, about two longtime buds who end up making a sex film together as part of a dare. Variety reported today that Shelton signed on to direct Laggies, about a 28-year-old woman unsure how to respond to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal so she takes off for a week with her new friends, who just happen to be high school kids. Andrea Seigel wrote the script with Anonymous Content producing. Shelton also boarded the adaptation of the Joshua Ferris novel Then We Came to the End to direct for producers Ted Hope and Anne Carey.
- 8/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Last summer I really enjoyed Lynn Shelton’s mumblecore bromance Humpday. Now she is prepping her next project and Deadline has the scant details.
The “semi-improvised” project has no title yet, but will star Rachel Weisz (The Brothers Bloom, The Constant Gardner) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Adjustment Bureau) as sisters. As per usual for Shelton’s film it will only take “a couple of weeks” to shoot.
Update: As expected, mumblecore pioneer Mark Duplass will join the duo, Variety reports. Duplass starred in Humpday and recently co-directed this summer’s Cyrus.
Shelton will also direct an adaptation of Joshua Ferris‘ novel Then We Came To The End for Focus Features. It tells the “story of copy writers at a Chicago ad agency when the dot com bubble bursts in 2001.” She also got some experience with ad agencies shooting a recent episode of Mad Men.
Production will begin late October in Seattle.
The “semi-improvised” project has no title yet, but will star Rachel Weisz (The Brothers Bloom, The Constant Gardner) and Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada, The Adjustment Bureau) as sisters. As per usual for Shelton’s film it will only take “a couple of weeks” to shoot.
Update: As expected, mumblecore pioneer Mark Duplass will join the duo, Variety reports. Duplass starred in Humpday and recently co-directed this summer’s Cyrus.
Shelton will also direct an adaptation of Joshua Ferris‘ novel Then We Came To The End for Focus Features. It tells the “story of copy writers at a Chicago ad agency when the dot com bubble bursts in 2001.” She also got some experience with ad agencies shooting a recent episode of Mad Men.
Production will begin late October in Seattle.
- 10/7/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lynn Shelton made a real splash last summer by directing Humpday, a low-budget comedy notable for its delicate examinations of the macho one-upmanship than can exist between male friends, not to mention the fact that Shelton is a woman. Since then she's been fielding offers from Hollywood, including a gig directing an episode of Mad Men and the mammoth job of adapting Joshua Ferris's novel Then We Came To Then End. But before that project gets going she's doing a quick return to her indie roots; Deadline reports she's snagged Emily Blunt and Rachel Weisz to star in her next project, which will shoot for just a few weeks starting later this month. The short schedule partly explains why she was able to cast such notable actresses-- Weisz will be going immediately into filming The Deep Blue Sea, while Blunt will go into production on Rian Johnson's Looper...
- 10/7/2010
- cinemablend.com
Exclusive: They’re about to work together in Lynn Shelton’s new semi-improvised and as-yet-untitled project. Production starts later this month in Seattle. Steven Schardt, co-producer on Shelton’s bromantic comedy Humpday, will produce. The whole movie’s only taking a couple of weeks to shoot, which is how Rachel Weisz can squeeze it in after spending one week on Terrence Malick’s untitled new film, and before Terence Davies starts shooting The Deep Blue Sea in November. Blimey, Weisz must be the busiest actress working in Britain. She’s repped by Independent in London and CAA in the Us. Not that Blunt’s any slouch. She recently signed to headline Rian Johnson’s Looper, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. In March 2011 she'll star opposite Matt Damon in sci-fi mystery The Adjustment Bureau opposite Matt Damon. Blunt is repped by CAA in the U.S. and Ken McReddie Associates in London.
- 10/7/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
Most episodes of the AMC series Mad Men are directed by their in-house stable of regulars, but every now and then they open it up to outsiders. Last year, they got Barbet Schroeder to direct the poignant Kennedy assassination episode. Tonight, they've tapped Lynn Shelton, the Indie Spirit Award-winning director of Humpday, the bromantic comedy which premiered at Sundance. Shelton, by the way, has just signed on with Focus Features to direct an adaptation of Then We Came To The End, an adaptation of the Joshua Ferris novel that will be produced by Ted Hope and Anne Carey's This Is That banner. It's the story of a bunch of copy writers at a Chicago ad agency who face extinction when the dot com bubble bursts in 2001. Shelton also directs $5 Cover, an MTV webisode series that follows the trials and tribulations of 13 Seattle bands. The series premieres in November.
- 9/27/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The New Yorker, Vanity Fair’s chief athletics rival, has published its much-anticipated list of the 20 best fiction writers under 40. The names of the canon inductees will be published in next week’s fiction double issue. The list has also been published in a New York Times piece, which is available right this moment. The chosen ones: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32; Chris Adrian, 39; Daniel Alarcon, 33; David Bezmozgis, 37; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38; Joshua Ferris, 35; Jonathan Safran Foer, 33; Nell Freudenberger, 35; Rivka Galchen, 34; Nicole Krauss, 35; Yiyun Li, 37; Dinaw Mengestu, 31; Philipp Meyer, 36; C. E. Morgan, 33; Tea Obreht, 24; Z Z Packer, 37; Karen Russell, 28; Salvatore Scibona, 35; Gary Shteyngart, 37; and Wells Tower, 37.” This is the most exciting thing to happen in the young-ish literary community since The Paris Review started a blog!
- 6/2/2010
- Vanity Fair
I'm still middle of the road on the mumblecore kids. I dig the Duplass Brothers for the most part, and Josh and Benny Safdie have been deservedly making a name for themselves with The Pleasure of Being Robbed and their latest Daddy Longlegs. I'm extremely curious to see how Cyrus turns out, because that's gonna make a statement to a lot of people -- both in how the Brothers Duplass handle a mainstreamish flick and if Jonah Hill can carry a film.
Regardless, one of the heroines of the mumblecore movement, Lynn Shelton -- who's Humpday I adored -- has announced her next project. Get ready to rejoice, kiddies, because she's bringing Joshua Ferris's Then We Came To The End to the big screen. It's a marriage of two forces I enjoy -- like chocolate and peanut butter coming together in a Reesian joygasm in my mouth. This ain't gonna be mumblecore,...
Regardless, one of the heroines of the mumblecore movement, Lynn Shelton -- who's Humpday I adored -- has announced her next project. Get ready to rejoice, kiddies, because she's bringing Joshua Ferris's Then We Came To The End to the big screen. It's a marriage of two forces I enjoy -- like chocolate and peanut butter coming together in a Reesian joygasm in my mouth. This ain't gonna be mumblecore,...
- 3/5/2010
- by Brian Prisco
Among the projects in the Shelton's pipeline, we find a project with Sherman Alexie, and now you can add Joshua Ferris’ recent novel Then We Came To An End for Anne Carey and Ted Hope's This is That Productions (their upcoming slate includes James Gunn's Super and Anton Corbijn's The American). - Mumblecore offering Humpday officially put its director on the map - I wonder out loud how world sales went for the film as it was profiled in Cannes as well. Regardless, Lynn Shelton secured her independent filmmaker career in the U.S. and a small blurb mentioned on IndieWIRE confirms she is headed in that direction. Among the projects in the Shelton's pipeline, we find a project with Sherman Alexie, and now you can add Joshua Ferris’ recent novel Then We Came To An End for Anne Carey and Ted Hope's This...
- 3/5/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Kathryn Bigelow has been getting a lot of attention for directing a very good movie about men when she, in fact, is a woman-- crazy! But Lynn Shelton was right there with her in 2009, directing the funny and insightful indie Humpday and not even getting an Oscar nomination for it-- I know, how dare they. But Humpday earned enough attention from the right people that Shelton has moved on to something bigger, and maybe even better, for her next project. In a chat with Indiewire recently, Shelton said she'll be working on an adaptation of Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris's hilarious and tragic novel about an advertising agency going under. She didn't specify precisely what she'd be doing on the film, but given that she said she's working with producers Anne Carey and Ted Hope, it's safe to assume she'll be involved in the writing and...
- 3/4/2010
- cinemablend.com
Publisher's Note: Celebrated author Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed was released last week, and to celebrate the occasion, here are two reviews of the novel.
Brian Prisco's Review
Have you ever been surprised by an artist? The one who immediately comes to mind is Danny Boyle. If you were to look over his canon of work, you'd be mindblown. From drug epic, to children's film, to Bollywood spectacle, to unexpected sci-fi, the man changes spots every season. Such was the shock of The Unnamed. I went in expecting something funny and maudlin and brackish like And Then We Came to the End. And instead, I received a heartcrushing punch to the sternum. The Unnamed is a very different book, a total diversion from his other work, completely unexpected and absolutely soul-smashingly wistful. It's like expecting a ghost story and having someone go into great and morose detail describing the death...
Brian Prisco's Review
Have you ever been surprised by an artist? The one who immediately comes to mind is Danny Boyle. If you were to look over his canon of work, you'd be mindblown. From drug epic, to children's film, to Bollywood spectacle, to unexpected sci-fi, the man changes spots every season. Such was the shock of The Unnamed. I went in expecting something funny and maudlin and brackish like And Then We Came to the End. And instead, I received a heartcrushing punch to the sternum. The Unnamed is a very different book, a total diversion from his other work, completely unexpected and absolutely soul-smashingly wistful. It's like expecting a ghost story and having someone go into great and morose detail describing the death...
- 1/29/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Joshua Ferris. Photograph by Nina Subin. Author Joshua Ferris had a quick and happy rise to literary fame in 2007 with his first novel, Then We Came to the End, which was nominated for a National Book Award and won the Pen/Hemingway Prize. When The New Yorker published Ferris's “The Dinner Party,” in August 2008, it became cultishly enjoyed as a short story par excellence. Now, Ferris has published a new novel, The Unnamed, which relates the dark, bizarre story of Tim and Jane Farnsworth, a rather un-dark, un-bizarre couple living in suburban New York. When Tim’s mysterious involuntary-walking disease returns in midlife, his affluent lifestyle as a trial lawyer and his pleasant marriage to the terminally devoted Jane are tossed into chaos and heartache. Ferris took a few moments from his time as the proud father of a four-month-old son to speak to Vf Daily about his new book.
- 1/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
Joshua Ferris’ 2007 debut Then We Came To The End fearlessly wielded the first-person plural to chronicle the fall of a Chicago advertising agency through its employees’ eyes. There is no “we” in The Unnamed, his superbly depressing follow-up about a marital crisis with no exit, but the descent is more personal, frightening, and ultimately meaningful. In middle age, well-respected workaholic lawyer Tim Farnsworth began to take long, compulsive walks in his sleep, waking up several miles from home with no memory of the journey. After dozens of treatments, he decides to obey his compulsions with the help of his ...
- 1/21/2010
- avclub.com
Sarah Palin scored a gig with Fox News, and I know everybody is pretty annoyed over it, but seriously -- Sarah Palin having to carry her own show every night? This has the potential to be the most hilarious fake news show since "The Daily Show." (Celebitchy)
The NY Times took a sampling of Netflix rentals from a dozen major cities across the country and broke down the top rentals of 2009 by region with a handy interactive chart. (NY Times)
Just yesterday I reported that there was no script or tentative dates for the "Arrested Development" movie, but stop the presses! Will Arnett has now said in a sarcasm-laden statement that filming is to begin this year. Everybody go crazy! (Film Drunk)
Woody Allen's newest protege is one of the Cyrus spawn. I'm not making that up. Ok, I'm kind of making that up. (Litelysalted)
Here's a review of The Unnamed,...
The NY Times took a sampling of Netflix rentals from a dozen major cities across the country and broke down the top rentals of 2009 by region with a handy interactive chart. (NY Times)
Just yesterday I reported that there was no script or tentative dates for the "Arrested Development" movie, but stop the presses! Will Arnett has now said in a sarcasm-laden statement that filming is to begin this year. Everybody go crazy! (Film Drunk)
Woody Allen's newest protege is one of the Cyrus spawn. I'm not making that up. Ok, I'm kind of making that up. (Litelysalted)
Here's a review of The Unnamed,...
- 1/12/2010
- by Stacey Nosek
NEW YORK -- Mean Girls helmer Mark Waters is attached to direct Joshua Ferris' comedy-drama Seven Days for Universal Pictures.
Watermark Pictures' Jessica Tuchinsky and Waters will produce the feature.
The script chronicles seven pivotal days in a man's life during the course of 20 years, with each segment of the film beginning as he wakes up that day.
Ferris, a National Book Award finalist for his novel Then We Came to the End, signed his contract before the recent WGA strike. "I can't remember large periods of my life that well, but certain days stick in my mind, for good reasons and bad," he said, noting the origin of the Seven plot. "At the end, hopefully it will be a portrait of a life as it's lived."
Tuchinsky and Ferris first discussed the idea a year ago and developed it for six months, eventually bringing it to Universal exec Peter Cramer to develop at the studio. Ferris is waiting for the end of the strike to resume work on the script and hasn't yet finalized which days of the lead character's life will appear in the final version.
Watermark Pictures' Jessica Tuchinsky and Waters will produce the feature.
The script chronicles seven pivotal days in a man's life during the course of 20 years, with each segment of the film beginning as he wakes up that day.
Ferris, a National Book Award finalist for his novel Then We Came to the End, signed his contract before the recent WGA strike. "I can't remember large periods of my life that well, but certain days stick in my mind, for good reasons and bad," he said, noting the origin of the Seven plot. "At the end, hopefully it will be a portrait of a life as it's lived."
Tuchinsky and Ferris first discussed the idea a year ago and developed it for six months, eventually bringing it to Universal exec Peter Cramer to develop at the studio. Ferris is waiting for the end of the strike to resume work on the script and hasn't yet finalized which days of the lead character's life will appear in the final version.
- 11/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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