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The series creator explains her decision to build the adaptation around a love story, between brothers, rereading Cathy Ames and how she updated Steinbeck's novel for television.
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains major spoilers from “East of Eden,” now streaming on Netflix. Zoe Kazan has spent much of her life thinking about family legacy on and off screen. More than 62 years after her grandfather Elia Kazan famously directed James Dean in an adaptation of the fourth…
Fresh off the heels of the hit Netflix adaptation, created by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh, John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” is at the top of Amazon’s Best Sellers List in the No. 1 spot. In addition, the audiobook of the novel is on the retail giant’s “Best of #BookTok” books list too.…
The actress who plays the central character of Cathy and serves as an executive producer on the well-reviewed Netflix adaptation was Kazan's first and only choice for the role: "I didn't have a backup."
The Victorian town on New Zealand’s South Island will play a central role in Netflix’s anticipated series
John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found Nestled between two mountain ranges at the crook of central California’s coastline sits a valley known as the “salad bowl of the world”. Farm workers stoop…
This take on the 1952 novel is lavishly shot and full of excellent performances. It lacks the heft to be a full examination of human nature, but it’s a high-quality family saga It is rarely difficult to distinguish between a John Steinbeck novel and a ray of sunshine. The new adaptation of his 1952…
Florence Pugh is exhilarating as East Of Eden’s Cathy Ames, who is as coarse as sandpaper and yet as alluringly drawn as any character on TV in recent years.
Florence Pugh and Zoe Kazan, the star and screenwriter (respectively) of Netflix’s “East of Eden,” a fresh take on John Steinbeck’s classic 1952 novel, recently came to the Library to get a look at some original Steinbeck material. There were signed first editions of “Eden,” manuscript pages from…
Zoe Kazan adapts John Steinbeck’s epic novel, 71 years after her grandfather’s film starring James Dean, and the results are something Netflix should be applauded for
