Books with A24 Vibes

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@groofay 2 ай бұрын

I feel like Our Wives Under the Sea is screaming for an A24 adaptation.

@tirarosaurioreads 2 ай бұрын

I have been saying this for a long long time! I WISH

@ripstick2804 2 ай бұрын

SO true

@tovezuiderveen4234 2 ай бұрын

Yesss

@tovezuiderveen4234 2 ай бұрын

I think A24 should make a film out of one of Eric LaRocca's short stories. He has so many that could be fleshed out into a full screenplay

@katyalysander1490 2 ай бұрын

Your unhinged (affectionate) laughter when talking about the class dynamics of different publishing houses… I love 😂 also agree with all of your recs, I am hotly anticipating all these future adaptations… 👀

@barbaralemon4170 2 ай бұрын

This is a great talk! Ironically, I just finished reading Convenience Store Woman a few hours ago. I loved it!It would make an excellent film. Bunny could be a real treat of a film in the right hands!

@5hif7yx86 2 ай бұрын

lets start some sort of petition to get Earthlings made by A24. Either that or something by Fernanda Melchor .

@tirarosaurioreads 2 ай бұрын

Or a series of short story adaptations by Maria Fernando Ampuero

@WillowTalksBooks 2 ай бұрын

Melchor, yes! Seconded!

@5hif7yx86 2 ай бұрын

@@tirarosaurioreads yes yes and yes!

@AnotherTurning 2 ай бұрын

Neon Hemlock Press immediately came to mind for me as A24 vibes. Specifically, And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed is kind of A24 to me. Also maybe Chuck Tingle's horror. His indie-pub'd Straight feels like it fits in with A24 really well. I keep editing because I think of more 😅 Carmen Maria Machado also feels A24! Most of the stories in Her Body and Other Stories would be perfect, or even an adaptation of her memoir.

@imhidinginabook Ай бұрын

Your description of Fitzcaraldo Editions is spots on 😂 it took me years to pick their titles up bc I was so intimidated by their aesthetic & I love literary stuff!

@TheBonsaiGarden Ай бұрын

Lost In The Garden is next on my reading list. If it proves to be a mix of Saltburn meets Midsommar then I will be happy.

@rookbirdblues 2 ай бұрын

Any Ursula k Le Guin novel would be incredible adapted by A24... but I want a Left Hand of Darkness adaption SO BADLY!

@smittenforfiction 2 ай бұрын

I loved Rouge! But I love everything by Mona Awad. Great video!

@crk.resrhetorica 2 ай бұрын

Love your enthusiasm. Now I want to watch those films!

@thatbigredhairbang4011 2 ай бұрын

Unrelated to the video topic so I apologise in advance but: You made me remember Jonathan Strange & mister Norrell. I got the book as a Christmas present when I was like 12 (I was a fast reader and my mother thought the only metric of a book value was its length-so she only bought me tomes of 500 pages or more) I'm ashamed to say that at the time I found it beyond boring and gave it away shortly after, but now after almost 20 years I borrowed a copy from the library and giving it a second chance, so thank you :D

@badfaith4u 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to A24.

@Barryislarge 2 ай бұрын

Yay, Paradise Rot in the thumbnail! Or "the piss book". I could SMELL that book.

@danielaweberdani 2 ай бұрын

wonderful video, crossing literature and cinema is genius, I hope A24 people get somehow to see this treasure of ideas! 😊

@AbsurdExistentialist 2 ай бұрын

The video I didn't know I needed

@julienakpillankford1609 2 ай бұрын

So glad you mentioned Stephen Graham Jones! I think his book “Mongrels” would make a good A24 film. ❤️

@the_eerie_faerie_tales 2 ай бұрын

I loved Lost in the Garden! Perfect summer read.

@eha440 2 ай бұрын

Without thinking too much I would say - The vegetarian by Han Kang - Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (but then I found out there's already an adaptation) - The Notebook Trilogy by Agota Kristof

@literarylove123 2 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you about Lost in the Garden.

@Livinglikejulie 2 ай бұрын

A lot of favorites in this video

@zedxx 2 ай бұрын

You're spot on with Fitzcarraldo Editions and Dead Ink, and in the US, I think MCD x FSG has serious A24 vibes

@ReinReads 2 ай бұрын

Would love to see A24’s interpretation of Anna Kavan’s Ice. Probably Kelly Reichardt or Yorgos Lanthimos directing.

@MikaDoesStuff23 2 ай бұрын

I haven’t seen many A24 films (I shy away from horror!) but knowing what I know, and reading what I’ve read, maybe: If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

@the_eerie_faerie_tales 2 ай бұрын

I just read Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley and it would probably make a really cool A24 film. Bunch of young girls shipwreck on an isolated island and when they get injured strange things happen with their bodies. There is a creature of some sort on the island too. Queer rep.

@vanessatool4346 2 ай бұрын

Omg, thank you so much for mentioning me in the video, Im so happyyy and greatful! And the film by Moshfegh und Jennifer Lawrence is Causeway, also created by A24. Great film and Otessa wrote the script.

@wewillrust 2 ай бұрын

Loved this video, thanks!

@tirarosaurioreads 2 ай бұрын

Oh I ADORE A24, I basically watch every new movie they release since I first heard of them. So many personal favourites in their catalogue, and it makes me kinda sad that Saint Maud doesnt get half the love it deserves, it's such a perfect movie.

@ashwinglittus9637 2 ай бұрын

I think SO LATE IN THE DAY would make a good A24 film in the hands of a filmmaker like Celine Song or Joanna Hogg....the mundane melancholy of existence between moment and memory.

@katherinekenso1707 2 ай бұрын

I love so many of these! Would add Lauren Bukes as an author with a24 vibes.

@maiiau 2 ай бұрын

Let's see, I don't have a good sense for publishing companies, but for stories... VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, maybe? Though Annihilation, which I think would work the best, already has a movie adaptation. Yogo Ogawa's The Memory Police. River's Solomon's Sorrowland. And less a "this fits", but more "I would love to see what could be done with this": House of Leaves. I mean, I'm pretty sure that one's unadaptable, but a serious attempt would be fascinating.

@orladdin 2 ай бұрын

Because I am uncultured and not really a horror person, I assumed A24 was a British motorway... and I still clicked on the video 🤣

@WillowTalksBooks 2 ай бұрын

LMAO that’s amazing 😭

@lia-mariko 2 ай бұрын

I know and love A24 productions, I’m here for this video ❤😀😀😀

@jstamps9578 2 ай бұрын

From your lips to A24 film creators.

@Gen-yh1jz 2 ай бұрын

Definitely fun to read a book and then think who would be good to direct and star in the film version.

@badger-1984 2 ай бұрын

I've been thinking about this since you first asked the question as most things that came to mind other people suggested first but the other day I realised Bestiary by K Ming Chang would fit the A24 vibe

@WillowTalksBooks 2 ай бұрын

Omg K Ming Chang is wonderful 🥹

@valeria-jr5oo 2 ай бұрын

I recently finished Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, needless to say it would probably also fit A24. It could use some original twists in the screen play, though, to speed up the pace a bit since it’s very introspective (meaning that you feel like you’re living inside the head of the very unpleasant main character for some days, but since I’ve also read My year of rest and relaxation I think that may be just typical of Moshfegh’s narrators). Terrific video as usual Willow, I have added Lost in the garden to my tbr 👀

@renee_3364 2 ай бұрын

My mind immediately went to Dead Ink books too. Other books that give me A24 vibes: Death Valley by Melissa Broder, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist Chlorine by Jade Song, and Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. (that last one might by by Dead Ink, but I'm not sure) Also, your mention of it just bumped Lost in the Garden far closer to the top of my TBR

@MariaMartinez-vy1gr 2 ай бұрын

There's also a Spanish publisher quite A24 that comes to my mind, "Editorial Cerbero". I'd love to translate for them, but as far as I know they only publish in Spanish.