On the latest episode of Framed and Bound, host Tobias Carroll and guest Kerri Sullivan revisit the 1996 film Harriet the Spy.

Subjects discussed in this episode: how to tell when a movie set in NYC was not shot in NYC; a Kids in the Hall connection; the number of Tony Award winners involved with this film; Diane Duane's novels about wizards; the comic book Friday; childhood journals; the movie Quills; general Monmouth County lore.

Kerri Sullivan is the proprietor of Jersey Collective and organized the New Jersey Bookstore Crawl.

After an unexpected break, Framed and Bound returns with a new episode focusing on writer-director Robert Towne's 2006 adaptation of John Fante's novel Ask the Dust!

Joining host Tobias Carroll for this episode is Constance Squires, author of Low April Sun, available wherever books are sold.

Discussed this episode: the ideal director to adapt John Fante; when you cast the right actor at the wrong age; The Brutalist; The Committments; Saul Bellow; the hard-living literary dude canon; David Peace; Modernist literature....and so much more.

In this episode of Framed & Bound, host Tobias Carroll and guest Lee Matthew Goldberg discuss the 1990 film Misery, an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. It’s also the third King adaptation to be covered on this podcast. One of these days, we’ll get to Secret Window.

Discussed in this episode: the greatness of Kathy Bates, Rob Reiner’s suspense chops, the challenges of adapting Stephen King, Tobias’s issues with season one of Castle Rock, Misery and toxic fandom, and when bestselling writers have bizarre subway ads.

As discussed in the episode: reviews of the graphic novel Parasocial and the documentary King on Screen. In two weeks, Constance Squires stops by to discuss another literary adaptation about the life of a writer: Ask the Dust. Our logo is by Mack V.