novelize
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“And we’re in this beautiful golden age of television where we can novelize a TV show.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020
Lynn Potter knew she had enough for a gripping read and had long planned to novelize the results by working off the letters.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016
Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016
Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” hit theaters, Quentin Tarantino has novelized his Oscar-winning movie, calling the result a “complete rethinking” of the story.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021
Keneally’s book is a novelized version of a true story: how German industrialist and Nazi named Oskar Schindler managed to save 1,200 Jews from transportation to concentration camps.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
The star exhibit was a novel called “Women’s Barracks,” by Tereska Torres, a novelized account of the author’s experience serving in London in the Free French Army during the war.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
At the height of the Cold War, it was thrown into crisis by the exposure of a string of Soviet double agents — events gloomily novelized in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2012
Yet only one of these novelized plays has succeeded in winning an honorable place for itself in prose fiction.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
“That was what my mother did,” she said, referring to the act of novelizing one’s life.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
Theodore Weesner is the latest good writer to prove that maundering in print about the nasty process of getting shucked is less likely to be entertaining than novelizing about salmonella.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cinematic kind of novelizing is more fashionable now, in which the page is a movie screen, wondrous but neutral.
From Time Magazine Archive
IV The novelizing of plays is frequent and profitable in America in these early years of the twentieth century; and it had been attempted infrequently even in the seventeenth century.
From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews
