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Moonlight writer McCraney discusses his TV series, David Makes Man. Maureen Corrigan reviews Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So. Peter Bergen talks about The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.
Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic, Justin Chang, says that "The Green Knight," which stars Dev Patel as a young adventurer from King Arthur's court, is one of the most magical movies he's seen so far this year. It's the latest film from David Lowery, the writer and director of the indie dramas "A Ghost Story" and "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." It opens Friday in theaters nationwide. Here's Justin's review. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: As powerful a grip as King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table still exert on our imaginations, there haven't been enough great or even ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The movie "Moonlight," which won the Oscar for best picture in 2017, was adapted from a script by my guest, Tarell Alvin McCraney. He and the film's director, Barry Jenkins, won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. McCraney is now the creator of the series "David Makes Man," where he's also an executive producer and writer. It's in its second season on OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Network. Like "Moonlight," it begins with a boy growing up in the projects in a Miami neighborhood who's neglected by his crack-addicted mother, which echoes McCraney's childhood. But...
Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Dana Spiotta's novels have been shortlisted for most of the major literary awards. Her latest novel is called "Wayward." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says it's a novel about one woman's extreme response to the pervasive low-level panic that marks our own time. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Dana Spiotta's new novel, "Wayward," is about a 53-year-old woman named Samantha - Sam - Raymond who's going through menopause and becomes a little unhinged. She leaves her husband and her teenage daughter in the suburbs of Syracuse and impulsively moves into a ...
Let Hollywood tell it, Miami culture can be summed up by three things: South Beach, salsa dancing, and drug cartels. Unfortunately, that representation of the southern Florida city that we often see on the big and small screen leaves out an important community that’s a huge part of its makeup: African Americans. Last year, OWN offered a new take on the 305 with the introduction of David Makes Man. The coming-of-age tale created, written, and directed by Moonlight‘s Tarell Alvin McCraney, not only expands the narratives of Black boys seen on screen but brings authenticity to the experien...