The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris to be Adapted as a Hulu Series
The adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl has officially set nabbed a series order at Hulu. The series comes from Disney’s Onyx Collective and is executive produced by Rashida Jones, Tara Duncan, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Adam Fishbach, Zakiya Dalila Harris, and Danielle Henderson. Danielle Henderson is the showrunner of The Other Black Girl.
Ayesha Curry Adds Book Publishing To Sweet July Brand
Ayesha Curry has signed a deal with upstart book publishing company Zando to publish books under the Sweet July Books imprint. Curry said her publishing focus will be on four Fs: faith, family, food and female empowerment, with an emphasis on giving writers of color a platform. In an interview with Forbes, Curry said that the disparity between women of color and their white counterparts as writers “certainly lights a fire within me. I think that was also what was exciting for us going into this partnership with Zando, was the ability to kind of shift those metrics even if it’s a little bit.”
A24 Makes a Movie Crossword Puzzle Book
Out today is A24’s new book of 99 movie-themed crossword puzzles by puzzle markers at The New York Times and The New Yorker. The book, which is now available from the A24 shop, is edited by Anna Shechtman, prolific puzzle maker of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book includes nine puzzles co-created with filmmakers, actors and composers, including David Lowery, Jenny Slate, Lulu Wang, Tim Heidecker, Emile Mosseri, Stephanie Hsu, Elsie Fisher, Megan Amram, and Ashley Clark.
Raymond Briggs, Author of The Snowman, Dies at 88
Raymond Briggs, beloved British author and illustrator of popular Christmas story The Snowman, died Tuesday in Brighton, England at the age of 88.