After a brief delay due to, well, current events, there’s a new episode of Framed & Bound. This time out, Drew Buxton joins Tobias Carroll to get very metafictional as they discuss 2022’s Adaptation, featuring two of Nicolas Cage’s best performances.

Discussed: writing about wrestling, Brian Cox’s agelessness, Charlie Kaufman’s work as a director, the challenges of adapting unadaptable books, and the greatness of Wojciech Has.

Drew Buxton’s So Much Heart is available directly from the publisher and wherever books are sold. If you’ve ever been curious to read The Orchid Thief, it’s available from Bookshop and your local bookstore. Shout Factory’s blu-ray of the film can be ordered here. Tobias wrote about another Charlie Kaufman adaptation for Literary Hub. Our logo is by Mack V.

Framed & Bound is back with a look at the 1987 film Barfly, directed by Barbet Schroeder and written by Charles Bukowski. Host Tobias Carroll and guest William Lessard discuss the pros and cons of Bukowski adaptations, Mickey Rourke’s career, and the Stallone family.

You can find out more about William Lessard on his website. Our new logo is by Mack V.

On the sixteenth episode of Framed and Bound, David James Keaton joined host Tobias Carroll to discuss the 1987 film Best Seller, starring Brian Dennehy and James Woods. Turns out we were not the only ones to find the end credits song to be a little bit stylistically jarring, as this review makes clear.

You can find Keaton at his website; his latest book is the novel Shallow Ends. And if you enjoyed hearing these guys talk about movies and books, there are more interviews where that came from.

On this week’s episode of Framed and Bound, South Brooklyn Exterminating author Ian S. Maloney joins host Tobias Carroll to unravel the twisty conspiracies of David Fincher’s 1997 film The Game — and explain what it has to do with the publishing industry.

The Criterion Collection’s page for the film has some terrific analysis of the film’s themes and images. (Apparently it’s a favorite of both Ty Segall and Brie Larson, so that’s cool.) We also referenced an earlier episode about Wolf, which you can listen to here.

You can find Ian S. Maloney online here.

In the latest episode of Framed & Bound, guest Caroline Hagood and host Tobias Carroll discussed The Forty-Year-Old Version, writer/director/star Radha Blank’s engaging look at a playwright reckoning with art, ethics, and definitions of success.

There’s been a lot of excellent writing on the film, including Neal Minow at RogerEbert.com, Alison Willmore at Vulture, and Richard Brody at The New Yorker.

More information on Caroline Hagood’s writing and books can be found on her website.

On episode 13 of Framed & Bound, host Tobias Carroll and guest Dmitry Samarov discussed the 2018 film Can You Ever Forgive Me? In 2008, Julie Bosman at The New York Times wrote about the publication of the memoir that inspired the film — and what some of the real-life buyers of author Lee Israel’s forged letters felt about her years after the fact.

Dmitry Samarov’s latest book is Making Pictures Is How I Talk to the World. He’s also the co-host of the podcast That Horrorcast and publishes a regular newsletter. You can read his 2018 review of this film at the Chicago Reader's website.

On the 12th episode of Framed & Bound, host Tobias Carroll and Christian Niedan of Screen Sounds discuss the 1956 film Storm Center, about book banning in a small town. There’s also a fascinating trailer for the film that can be found on YouTube — which literally shows the final scene of the movie.

Niedan interviewed Walter Bernstein about his experience as a blacklisted writer; he also maintains a fantastic Instagram account.

If you’re interested in more discussion of a film that Daniel Taradash was involved in, we discussed Bell, Book and Candle last year.

For episode 11 of Framed & Bound, Mairead Case (Tiny, See You in the Morning) joins host Tobias Carroll to discuss Irish Wish, a movie in which an editor played by Lindsay Lohan creates a parallel universe where she’s engaged to the rakish author whose book she made a bestseller.

The essay Mairead mentioned at episode's end can be found here.

Discussed in this episode: Irish saints, parallel universes, David Bowie, and whether the editor/author working progress in this film bears any resemblance to editor/author working progress in real life.