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Kit Zauhar will adapt “How Should a Person Be?,” the 2010 novel from acclaimed Canadian author Sheila Heti, for the screen. Neon Heart Productions, which previously worked with Zauhar on her second feature “This Closeness,” is developing the book. According to the logline, the film adaptation will focus on “a young artist [who] faces an early mid-life crisis when a new friendship makes her question her marriage and everything else about her current life path.”

Heti is the author of eleven books to date including “Pure Colour,” “Alphabetical Diaries” and “Motherhood,” which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. “How Should a Person Be? will be the first film adaptation of her work.

Zauhar’s most recent film, “This Closeness,” is a relationship drama that she directed and wrote. It premiered in theaters this week after debuting at SXSW to critical acclaim. Her feature directorial debut, “Actual People,” premiered at Locarno Film Festival...

January tends to be a quiet time for publishing as people come back from the holidays and booksellers trust in old favorites. It’s slim pickings, but there are still some options for brand-new space exploration and social commentary this month. Here are our picks for the top new science fiction books in January 2023.

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Type: Novel

Publisher: Tor Books

Release date: Jan. 31

Den of Geek says: Ecological mystery turns cozy in this novel that has been compared to Becky Chambers’ quiet, thoughtful “hopepunk.”

Publisher’s summary: Destry’s life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-e. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her.

But the bright, clean future they’re building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn’t exist,...

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Hulu has snagged rights to author Sheila Heti’s forthcoming book — one that’s written in alphabetical order.

The streamer has optioned The Alphabetical Diaries, in which Heti took a decade’s worth of diary entries and rearranged the sentences in alphabetical order, to develop as a series. After cutting “thousands of sentences” the exercise took on something more like a novel, she explained in the introduction to a series of New York Times columns that presented an abridged form of the work. The book is slated to be published in 2023 by Fsg in the United States, Fitzcarraldo Editions in the U.K. and Knopf Canada.

Hunting Lane, the production company behind HBO’s I Know This Much Is True and feature films Holler, Captain Fantastic and Blue Valentine, is behind the project. The company’s Jamie Patricof and Katie McNeill are producing.

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The holiday season seemed to skip from Halloween to Christmas quickly this year, but that’s okay — it just means you have more time to get your loved ones some fun, day-brightening gifts. We’ve rounded up plenty of film- and TV-related items, from books and box sets to accessories and makeup, for the pop culture fans in your life. Read on for our suggestions below.

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Make the younglings in your life happy with this Lego Star Wars-themed Advent Calendar. Technically, it’s one...

First introduced as a national proclamation by Congress in 1981, Women’s History Month has been celebrated every year since then, using the 31 days of March to promote and amplify the voices of women across the country — and around the world.

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we asked nine actresses to tell us about the books, films and television shows that have inspired them, as women, over the years. Many of their selections were written by female writers, or star strong female leads. The shared goal of these actresses is to not only commemorate the achievements of women this month, but to celebrate their voices — and the stories they continue to tell — all year long.

Michaela McManus, “The Village” (premieres March 19 on NBC)

I read “Just Kids” by Patti Smith about seven years ago and it has stayed with me ever since (read it here). I moved to New York...

Sheila Heti was lucky enough to be in attendance for Haim's visit to Stevie Nicks's Santa Monica mansion, and what a day it was. Nicks gave the sisters advice on appropriate onstage attire ("Whatever it is that makes you feel fantastic and free — get three copies of that"), lectured them on the importance of journaling ("You want your journals written by hand in a book, because some day, if you have daughters ... these books are gonna go to them, and they're gonna sit around just like we are now and they're going to read them out loud"), and invited them back to watch her favorite show, Million Dollar Listing.But the highlight of the evening came when Nicks presented the three sisters with a parting gift: three golden half-moon pendants. Nicks: You have to have your moons. So you’re our sisters of the moon. Este: Are we all...

It’s no secret that she loves to take sartorial risks whenever possible, and Lena Dunham is featured in a new book called “Women in Clothes” by Sheila Heti.

The “Girls” actress states that it’s important to dress in apparel that you “don’t have to tug at,” favoring the proper size and fit over whatever is trendy at the moment.

Dunham also insists that ladies keep their clothing clean and fresh, noting that a stain is equivalent to “a big fat sign reading You Guys, I’M Falling Apart.”

And when it comes to the benefits of caring about what you wear, Lena champions "a feeling that no one else could have put on what you're wearing that day because it sprang forth from your unique neon mind.”...

Miranda July and Sheila Heti also among those signed up for book looking at 'what style means' to modern women

Zadie Smith and Miranda July are among a group of writers and artists who are contributing to a new crowd-sourced book exploring "the multiplicity of motives that inform how women present themselves, and what style means".

Women in Clothes joins a small but growing clutch of titles attempting to articulate and interpret modern womanhood, including Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman and Hadley Freeman's Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies.

The book will be shaped by feedback from women (and men) that is being sourced through a questionnaire. A longish list of intimate questions suggest that the book will be an in-depth investigation into how women feel about the way they present themselves and are perceived by the world, their identity, self-confidence, and personal and professional persona.

After Sheila Heti interviewed Miranda July, she decided they should talk to each other once a week. It was the beginning of a great friendship

Her Story Sheila Heti, 36, writer

Our friendship is very beautiful. It began with a big risk on my part and then a risk on Miranda's side. A year and a half ago I was asked by Bad Day magazine to interview her. I nearly didn't do it, because sometimes you just have this impulse not to. But I was familiar with her work and I'd watched her movie The Future, so I came up with a bunch of questions. Two minutes in, she told me that she was pregnant, which was very open of her.

After chatting for an hour, I felt this crazy, excited sensation surging through me, and I'd never felt like that after an interview before before, so I called my friend...

Miranda July wants to send you emails from famous people. Sign up here and the writer and filmmaker will convey secret transmissions every week from July until November. It's part of an art exhibition called "We Think Alone," and it takes place in your inbox.

The performance artist is best known for writing, directing and starring in the 2005 film, "Me and You and Everyone We Know" as well as 2011's "The Future." But she's also famous for her crowd-sourced projects; in 2010, Sfmoma purchased her seven-year online artwork titled, "Learning To Love You More," in which July created assignments like "Make an encouraging banner" and "Make a field guide to your yard." Thousands of user-generated results rolled in.

A similar mission guides her latest project, "We Think Alone," where strangers become privy to the private emails of Lena Dunham, Catherine Opie, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Kate and Laura Mulleavy,...

From an Austen anniversary to a Sundance full of female talent, the new year is already packed with highlights. What are you looking forward to this year?

No one expects 2013 to be easy, but we'll take our kicks where we can, and only a week in, there are already cultural triumphs for women to celebrate. The band Haim, three sisters from California, stormed to the top of the BBC's Sound of 2013 list, and for the first time all five categories of the Costa prize were won by women. The frontrunner to take the overall prize on 29 January is Hilary Mantel, with her novel Bring Up the Bodies, but Mary and Bryan Talbot's graphic memoir, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, has also been highly lauded.

There are plenty of other books to look forward to, including Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, February), Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld, (Doubleday, June), a...

From a full programme of film and stage adaptations to a new James Bond novel, unpublished works by Rs Thomas and Wg Sebald and a new prize for women writers, 2013 is set to be a real page-turner

January

10th The Oscar nominations are announced unusually early this year. Keep an eye out for a bumper crop of literary adaptations, including David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the David Nicholls-scripted Great Expectations, as well as Les Miserables, Anna Karenina and The Hobbit.

18th A new stage adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida theatre in London. In the year of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, his musical version will also feature around the country in both concert and stage performances.

24th The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International prize will be announced at the Jaipur festival.

New York. In Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good), a show at the Public Theater through Sunday, the German/British collective Gob Squad reconstructs a batch of films by Andy Warhol, in particular, of course, Kitchen (1965). Amy Taubin files a terrific report at Artforum, recalling an early-ish assessment of the film by Norman Mailer and noting "the Warhol/Godard connection." At the outset of the performance, the audience is taken on a tour of the set and told "that the black-and-white video projections which comprise almost the entire performance (and which resemble the texture and tonalities of Warhol's black-and-white 16mm films) are a simulcast of the performance taking place in the colorful, three-dimensional space behind the screens — and not a prerecorded video. The strategy works. Paradoxically, the video, which is larger than life but also ghostly, is more convincing than seeing flesh-and-blood performers moving around a...