Last month Quillette published an essay I wrote about movie novelizations and TV tie-in books. The essay’s publication coincided with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s book Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a novelization of his 2019 film Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood (the ellipses are missing from the book’s title). But that 5,000 word essay was cut from a much larger 14,000 piece on novelizations. Much good stuff had to be cut in order to make Quillette’s word count. I am going to attempt to arrange the unused 9,000-words into a separate essay here. I don’t want to duplicate the parts that Quillette used, because I’d be violating their exclusive right to publish that material. So forgive me if this piece seems a bit disjointed at times. It consists, primarily, of the original 14,000-word essay minus the parts Quillette published. Although there may be a few sections that appear in both.
POP FICTION'S MOST DISREPUTABLE GENRE
POP FICTION'S MOST DISREPUTABLE GENRE
POP FICTION'S MOST DISREPUTABLE GENRE
Last month Quillette published an essay I wrote about movie novelizations and TV tie-in books. The essay’s publication coincided with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s book Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a novelization of his 2019 film Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood (the ellipses are missing from the book’s title). But that 5,000 word essay was cut from a much larger 14,000 piece on novelizations. Much good stuff had to be cut in order to make Quillette’s word count. I am going to attempt to arrange the unused 9,000-words into a separate essay here. I don’t want to duplicate the parts that Quillette used, because I’d be violating their exclusive right to publish that material. So forgive me if this piece seems a bit disjointed at times. It consists, primarily, of the original 14,000-word essay minus the parts Quillette published. Although there may be a few sections that appear in both.