At last, HBO has released its first teaser trailer for its upcoming adaptation of My Brilliant Friend, the first installment in an upcoming 32-episode dive into Elena Ferrante’s famed Neapolitan Novels. The teaser’s just a small slice of this epic, obviously, but it looks pretty good so far.
Thought you’d just waltz into the country of Italy and standing right there would be elusive, authorial sensation Elena Ferrante with her arm already outstretched and arranged in handshake formation? Did you perhaps expect a hug? Well, think again: It’s not so easy, my friend, to meet Elena Ferrante.
The Guardian has announced that Elena Ferrante, secretive author of the wildly successful Neapolitan series, will have a new column addressing things like “childhood, aging, gender and, in her debut article, first love.” Expect to have your heart ripped out on a weekly basis.
The narrative that important, authoritative female novelists ultimately owe their brilliance to men refuses to die as we close out 2017—and it’s ensnared one of our newest literary stars. The plagiarism allegations against The Girls author Emma Cline, leveled by her ex-boyfriend, have set off a bruising legal battle…
HBO has found its next prestige drama: an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel, My Brilliant Friend. The first of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend follows the early friendship of Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo in post-war Naples, examining the often tumultuous undercurrents of female friendship,…
Saverio Costanzo, the director of Private and Hungry Hearts, has signed on to helm all four seasons of the television adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s beloved Neapolitan series. He will also help write the episodes alongside Francesco Piccolo and Laura Paolucci, with Ferrante herself contributing via email.
Early in Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey, Elena Ferrante acknowledges that she is going to lie. Even though Frantumaglia, a collection of letters, interviews, and other ephemera, is ostensibly non-fiction, it’s a label that seems too flexible, if not entirely meaningless. Ferrante is an unreliable narrator herself…
The New York Review of Books just doxxed Elena Ferrante using financial journalism. What the hell, guys?
Ever since so-called Ferrante fever struck, there’s been a cottage industry dedicated to unraveling the true identity of the pseudonymous Italian novelist. “Who is Elena Ferrante?” is a question that understandably haunts fans of the novelist and her complex rendering of her female protagonists. And yet, Ferrante…
A television adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels is currently in production, and I can already picture myself screaming, “BOOOOOOOOOO!” and throwing a bottle of Peroni at the screen when that piece of shit Nino appears for the first time. This must be what it feels like to be a George R.R. Martin fan.
The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and final book of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, will be released next week. (SPOILER: It’s wonderful.) Vanity Fair was lucky enough to nab an interview (conducted over email) with the elusive chanteuse écrivaine, and the first part was published today. In it, Ferrante…
In a year so crammed with both cultural stasis and accelerated political mania that it resembled nothing else so strongly as a trash fire, there was Elena Ferrante, oasis of the terrifyingly good. The pseudonymous Italian author has made a quiet, graceful transition from cult fame to widespread obsession, and rightly:…
