Why, certainly, blog title field! As luck would have it, I’ve just seen two remarkable films based on novels once thought impossible to bring to the screen: John Schlesinger’s 1975 Day of the Locust (from the Nathanael West novel), starring William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Karen Black, and Donald Sutherland; and George Roy Hill’s 1972 Slaughterhouse-5 (from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.), starring Michael Sacks, Ron Liebman, and Valerie Perrine.

Both are challenging — Day of the Locust is at times surreal, and ultimately nightmarish, while Slaughterhouse-5 gleefully flouts narrative convention — but both are worth the time. Enjoy, blog title field!

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