When a novel is as well-written and emotionally engaging as Brick Lane , it takes a certain sensibility to make a successful film adaptation of it. First-time feature director Sarah Gavron learned from literature that to achieve a universal story you must

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Lambda Literary Foundation board president Christopher Rice and Simon Sheppard, winner of the LGBT Erotica Award for "Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica" (Running Press).

A trip to the land beyond the wardrobe is as close as Philly Few moments in literature rival the magic that Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy -- and in turn, readers -- feel as they climb into a wardrobe, push past a dense row of fur coats and find themsel