Donna Tartt News 2024
Read the latest articles, interviews and news updates on Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch, The Secret History, and The Little Friend.
- Which Donna Tartt novel is her definitive work? - The Aggie
- Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt - Harper's Magazine
- New Wine, Old Skins: Donna Tartt - The Imaginative Conservative
- Donna Tartt’s World of the Intellectual Elite in The Secret History - The Fordham Ram
- Donna Tartt’s genius is not so secret in 'The Secret History' - Idaho Press
- In a New Show at Gladstone, Alissa Bennett Unpacks the Mystery Novel ‘The Secret History’ - artnet News
- The Secret History's tragic flaw? Those Kids Are No Fun - CrimeReads
- Dawgreads: The not-so-secret genius of ‘The Secret History’ - Dailyuw
- A Lesson in Dark Academia Mystery Novels: The Secret History and If We Were Villains - Her Campus
- Hollywood Can’t Figure Out How to Adapt Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ - Collider
- Every Canceled Film Adaptation Of Donna Tartt's The Secret History Explained - Screen Rant
- What’s With All the Writing Cults in Fiction? An Exploration - Book Riot
- The Most Addictive Reads of All Time - Oprah Mag
- ‘The Secret History’: Satire Taken Seriously - The Colgate Maroon-News
- The Secret History: The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books - TIME
- Brilliant Writers of Our Time: Donna Tartt and Her Works - Our Culture Mag
- Hidden Gems: Two novels, by Donna Tartt and Tom Hanks, perfect for summer - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Donna Tartt on the books that were important to her while writing The Secret History. - Literary Hub
- Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis (Published 2020) - The New York Times
- Donna Tartt Answers Questions About The Secret History, Social Media, More - TODAY
- Donna Tartt: By the Book (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- “This confusion is both tragic and unfair.” Donna Tartt thinks you’re reading too much into it. - Literary Hub
- Fiona McPhillips on the enduring popularity of dark academia - Culturefly
- From Murders to Mysterious Codes: 6 of the Best Dark Academia Novels - Mentalfloss
- Finding Inspiration in Vermont’s ‘Shirley Jackson and Donna Tartt Country’ - CrimeReads
- ‘The Secret History’ is not a good book - The Michigan Daily
- If You’re Still Obsessed With ‘Saltburn,’ Here Are 5 Books To Read ASAP - Her Campus
- Writer Brings in the World While She Keeps It at Bay (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - Literary Hub
- The Allure of Donna Tartt - The Impact
- Why Great Writing Is Like the Star Trek Blooper Reel - Literary Hub
- Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction - lareviewofbooks
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About Donna Tartt’s Dorm-Room Martini Hours - The Cut
- Reading Pathways: Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- Read Donna Tartt’s Philippic Against Standardization - Slate
- Five of the best campus novels - The Guardian
- The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to Everyone - The Cut
- Age 20: “The Year of Magical Thinking” - Yale Daily News
- Smart Tartt - Vanity Fair
- Did a Podcast About Donna Tartt Go Too Far? - The New Republic
- Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’ - The Guardian
- The Goldfinch is a grown-up coming of age tale and great for teenagers - The National
- What Does Donna Tartt Think About 'The Goldfinch'? - Town & Country
- Dickensian Ambition And Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth The Wait - NPR
- Dark academia's deadly allure and the timeless appeal of prep style : It's Been a Minute - NPR
- Book review — The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - theartblog.org
- Donna Tartt, the writing life - Rivista Studio
- CELEBRITY BOOK REVIEW: Michelle Obama Reviews "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt - Electric Literature
- ‘The Secret History’: Why the quintessential ‘young American snob’s novel’ is trending on TikTok - EL PAÍS USA
- Your guide to mysterious literary genius Donna Tartt - Dazed
- Dust Thou Art: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at Thirty - The European Conservative
- Pulitzer Prize–Winner Donna Tartt on Writing The Goldfinch - Vogue
- Q&A: Donna Tartt - The Guardian
- The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on - BBC.com
- ‘The Goldfinch,’ a Dickensian Novel by Donna Tartt - The New York Times
- Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” as Revenge Fantasy - lareviewofbooks
- The secret herstory: what happened to Donna Tartt's women? - The Guardian
- Chatelaine Book Club interview with Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch - Chatelaine
- The Secret History of Audiobooks - The Conversation
- Remembering the Doomed Donna Tartt Character Bunny Corcoran, Himbo Supreme - Jezebel
- Do Succession and The Secret History Share a Central Character? - Vanity Fair
- The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) - The Pulitzer Prizes
- Big on TikTok: Why 'The Secret History' appeals to Gen Z - RUSSH
- Better listen to that Bennington podcast now—before Donna Tartt squashes it. - Literary Hub
- New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region - Literary Hub
- A talent to tantalise - The Guardian
- Best Dark Academia Novels: Top 5 Tales Most Recommended By Experts - Study Finds
- Why Are Literary Critics Dismayed by Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Its Success? - Vanity Fair
- Donna Tartt: "The fun thing about writing a book is that it really is a different life" - Salon
- 5 Dark Academia Books To Add To Your TBR ASAP - BuzzFeed
- Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lessons of YA - Literary Hub
- More Is More In Donna Tartt's Believable, Behemoth 'Goldfinch' - NPR
- Books - Books on BookTok: Tartt reigns supreme in seasonal reading - The Bookseller
- Reading ‘The Goldfinch’ on My Late Mother’s Kindle - Book and Film Globe
- Flights of Fancy (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- Review: The Secret History, Donna Tartt - The Bubble
- Why Donna Tartt's The Secret History Never Became a Movie - Town & Country
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- Ten reasons why we love Donna Tartt's The Secret History - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt’s Goldfinch | William Doino Jr. - First Things
- Fall Narratives to Help You Cling on to the Last Days of Autumn - The Dartmouth
- Sex, Drugs, and Bestsellers: The Legend of the Literary Brat Pack - Harper's BAZAAR
- Donna Tartt is a master of Dark Academia style - RUSSH
- The Secret History turns 30: the enduring cult appeal of Donna Tartt’s campus novel - The Independent
- Donna Tartt: the slow-burn literary giant - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt’s Typewritten Valedictorian Speech - Literary Hub
- Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at 30 - The New Statesman
- Exclusive | Donna Tartt’s lawyer sends off warning letters over Bennington College podcast - Page Six
- Why you should skip ‘The Goldfinch’ movie and pick up the book instead - America: The Jesuit Review
- ‹ Modern Classic or Self-Indulgent Slog:Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Book Marks - Bookmarks Reviews
- Donna Tartt shares The Goldfinch’s secret history - BBC.com
- The disappointing novel that just won a Pulitzer Prize - The Washington Post
- Why the backlash against Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' was so extreme (2014 Year in Review) - OregonLive
- Donna Tartt’s New Novel Gets Title, Release Date - Vulture
- The book I read every New Year: Donna Tartt's The Secret History seduces me every time - inews
- Donna Tartt: The World’s 100 Most Influential People - TIME
- Not the Booker prize shortlist: a long look at Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch: David Gilbert Reviews the Novel - Vanity Fair
- The Style Evolution of Donna Tartt - Town & Country
What's Donna Tartt Working on Now?
With The Little Friend finally complete, Tartt is now reported to be working on a version of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, due to be published by Canongate as part of a series that will feature updated fables by Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and JM Coetzee.
The Little Friend
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times. Read all about it here.
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The Secret History - the movie
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Runtime: 91 mins
A long-planned film of the book dropped into one of the most protracted developments hells in Hollywood history. The project passed through the indecisive hands of Alan Pakula, Christopher Hampton and Scott Hicks to end up (possibly...) as a Warner-Miramax venture with the sibling duo of Gwyneth Paltrow as producer and Jake Paltrow as director.
- Boyd Tonkin, independent.co.uk, The Secret History: Whatever happened to Donna Tartt?, May 21, 2002
The best-selling Donna Tartt novel The Secret History continues its circuitous path towards the silver screen. Hyphenate Alan J. Pakula was the first to set to work on the project, initially planning to direct it, later merely to produce. His untimely death is but the latest in a series of setbacks for the piece, which has seen drafts by Rafael Yglesias, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, and Christopher Hampton. Shine helmer Scott Hicks had expressed some interest in the pic, which tells the chilly tale of five students who are caught in the thrall of a brilliant classics professor, only to accidentally commit a murder while carying out an ancient Greek ritual.
- inhollywood.com, the development report, April 1999
Donna Tartt, on her new novel, tentatively titled "Tribulation", due out early 2002
Excerpt from the interview
"When I was writing this book I was thinking very much about Stevenson, who I love, very much about Treasure Island and the pirates, and you know, Long John Silver, - books that I loved as a child. This is a book about children, but it's not a book for children. It's a frightening book. It's a scary book. It's fairly dark. It's about children coming into contact with adults. It doesn't take place wholly in the world of children (when I say children, I mean twelve years old...) And coming into contact with the world of adults in a very frightening way. (...) It's finished. I'm doing the edits now, the rewriting..." - Donna Tartt
The Secret History of Donna Tartt
by Mark Coles, Arts Correspondent
BBC
April 2001
"...Donna Tartt is preparing her comeback too... She has finished her second novel - well almost - 'I'm editing it down at the moment,' she says.
'It's a book about children - but not for children - its a frightening scary book about children coming into contact with the world of adults in a very frightening way'. So why had it taken so long to write? 'I can't write quickly. If I could write a book a year and maintain the same quality I'd be happy. I'd love to write a book a year but I don't think I'd have any fans'. Donna Tartt's new novel - with the provisional title 'Tribulation' is scheduled for publication early next year."
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Whatever Happened to Donna Tartt?
BBC
April 2001
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It’s about time for Donna Tartt to release another novel. Is there any news on her latest effort?