Dorothy Allison, who died on Nov. 5, 2024, published her first novel, “Bastard Out of Carolina,” in 1992, when she was 42 years old. She mined her own life to craft the semi-autobiographical work, ...
I’m not spending a fortune on candy. I have better things to spend my money on. I don’t have kids. I don’t want kids. Maybe 20 years ago, but not now. Monsters and ghouls and ghosts?
Salma Hayek Pinault’s new adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel “Like Water for Chocolate” — as a sumptuous period melodrama for HBO — falls squarely into the latter category.