This from the website of Newmarket Films, on the big screen adaptation of The Year of Fog:

The suspenseful thriller follows a young woman whose life is shattered when her soon-to-be step-daughter vanishes while in her care. The woman’s quest to find the girl becomes an obsession that takes her to the other side of the world and to the very edge of her sanity.

Says Newmarket’s John Crye,”We see this as a character-driven thriller in the Hitchcock tradition.”

Plus, recent good reading:
*a fascinating article on Malaria in the current issue of National Geographic (which points out that a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds in Africa and alleges that the banning of DDT following Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring” is responsible for the malaria deaths of 20 million children worldwide).

*a transcript of Sam Shephard’s Master Class in playwriting in the summer issue of The Missouri Review

*two articles in the current issue of the UC Berkeley alumni mag California: a piece by Ben Fong-Torres on the summer of love, and an essay by Pico Iyer entitled Island of Waiting, on Cuba