Let the wild rumpus start! Ghidorah Lives!

In the most recent edition of BLFJ (65), I wrote about the (inter)relationship that's developed between novels, films, and their screenplay binding agent. As such, I was rather interested to read about Dave Eggers' The Wild Things: a novelization of a movie adapted from a book.

Typical of such things, there's even an overlooked screenplay-shadow lurking behind this hodgepodge narrative mass ... somewhere, the filmscript always a literary and narrative Other.

Beyond reinforcing my thesis that the great narrative genre of the twenty-first century is three-headed, the Sendak-Jonze-Eggers Ghidorah further illustrates that we're living in a new aesthetic age fueled by the adaptation imperative, wherein almost every genre finds itself involved in an on-going, partner-swapping, swing-dance session that shows no signs of abating.

If anything, it's intensifying.

Thank God Linda Hutcheon gave us a roadmap!

Eggers discusses his novel and the experience of working with Spike Jonze on the 15 October edition of NPR's "All Things Considered."