If it’s a choice between this or The Last. But interesting may not be enough to merit a return as a full series. Perhaps that’s what Amazon is banking on: This Friday the site launches its latest crop of pilots, and among them is an adaptation of The Interestings directed by Four Weddings and a Funeral’s Mike Newell and starring Can’t Hardly Wait’s Lauren Ambrose and 10 Things I Hate About You’s David Krumholtz (okay, they’ve all done plenty in the interim, but The Interestings is set in the ’90s, and so is this article). Riverhead, 27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59448-839-9. Overall, The Interestings is a mixed bag that does, at minimum, earn its title. A few years down the line, I retain only the joy of reading it, not so much the specifics of what made the novel more interesting to me than, say, tacos, the beach, the boardwalk, or my boyfriend. Aside from the reception (and, if we’re being honest, that too is blurry for its own reasons), The Interestings actually is most of what I remember of that weekend, so firmly was my head stuck in my paperback copy of Wolitzer’s book.īut like so much contemporary fiction, The Interestings proved easy in, easy out. 'The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary, and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and. I read Meg Wolitzer’s best-selling novel The Interestings on a trip to San Diego for a wedding a few years ago.
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