The Oprah Book Club helped put Janet Fitch's debut novel on the top of the bestseller list. Now the author is back with her sophomore novel, a... 'White Oleander' Author Returns with 'Paint It Black' ...
Neither her beauty nor her exceptional acting talent are irrelevant to Peter Kosminsky's film of Janet Fitch's best-selling novel, "White Oleander." It is, in fact, crucial to Ingrid, the character ...
Laweekly: Best L.A. Novel Ever: Janet Fitch's White Oleander vs. Kate Braverman's Lithium for Medea, Round 1
Best L.A. Novel Ever: Janet Fitch's White Oleander vs. Kate Braverman's Lithium for Medea, Round 1
When Janet Fitch met Michelle Pfeiffer to discuss the film version of her debut novel, “White Oleander,” last year, she felt like she’d stepped into an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” “It was surreal, ...
A double sense of loss runs through the film version of Janet Fitch’s bestselling novel, “White Oleander,” a feeling of absence that is partly appropriate and partly not. What’s intended is the loss ...
WHILE Janet Fitch worked on the follow-up to her multimillion-selling debut novel and Oprah’s Book Club pick “White Oleander,” she listened to a particular cassette over and over again. It was a mix ...
There’s something sickening about Janet Fitch’s first novel, White Oleander (Little, Brown; $24), and it’s not entirely intentional. Her premise certainly shouts melodrama: Ingrid, beautiful blonde ...
Never rising above routine episodic storytelling, "White Oleander" nonetheless retains something of its source novel's ravaged emotional surface and cool, observant manner. Indeed, fans of Janet Fitch ...
Fitch follows her bestselling debut, White Oleander, by revisiting the insidious effects of a powerful, narcissistic mother on an only child. Michael Faraday is a Harvard dropout who paints in the L.A ...