Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is the author of 'Our Red Book: Intimate Stories of Periods, Growing and Changing'. The Hollywood Reporter's Lovia Gyarkye, film critic and programmer Kelli Weston, and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff join us for the conversation. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. We speak with Kelly Fremon Craig, screenwriter and director of 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret'. Now, the story has the film treatment by writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig.įor this edition of the 1A Movie Club, we discuss periods, adolescence, and grappling with your identity. Her father, Jewish, and her mother, Christian, kept religion out of Margaret's upbringing to allow her to decide her faith for herself. It follows an 11-year-old Margaret stepping into the world of adolescence (breasts, boys, and periods included) and exploring her religious identity along the way.

It was banned in libraries and schools, including the one Blume's children went to. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven is a television show about a highly contagious virus that eliminates most of the human race and ties together some of the. It certainly is in Judy Blume's story 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.'īut the 1970 novel wasn't well-received by all when it was first published. Menstruating can be a very pivotal part of life. Or one morning you woke up to blood in your bed and got a bit spooked. Maybe you were in class and someone pointed out a spot on your jeans when you stood up. Rachel McAdams as Barbara Dimon and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret Simon in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.ĭana Hawley/Lionsgate/Dana Hawley/Lionsgate

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