Publications
Publications
Iris In
"There is an iconic scene in Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo when a character in the titular film steps off the screen to interact with a fan in the theatre, whose devotion to the movies literally animates that character to life. A similar magic takes place within the pages of Kryssa Schemmerling's debut poetry collection, Iris In. As a child growing up in California, the boundaries between film and real life were truly blurred, personal history and Hollywood history bound inextricably together." — Larry Moore, Publisher, Broadstone Books
Photo Credit: Ernest Mettendorf
Locked Out of the Little House: Hollywood Shuts the Door on Women Directors. Again.
I’ve often wondered why none of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic children’s books have been adapted for the big screen. Based on the experiences of Wilder’s own family homesteading on the Great Plains during the late 19th century, they have always seemed to me ripe for cinematic interpretation.
