the darker side of the book-to-film boom

Whenever there’s news that a popular longform piece is getting turned into a movie, it’s kind of lame to be curmudgeonly about it, because hey, who’s ever going to complain about a good work of journalism getting a wider audience?

But as this Baffler piece, They Made a Movie Out of It: The Decline of Non-fiction in an IP Era, points out, there is a dark…