The author runs an indie book store in Key West, Florida Courtesy of Sundance Institute “The right time, the right place,” Blume says of the Margaret decision, which she had held out on for 50 years. She has also agreed to participate in a biography by writer Mark Oppenheimer donated her archive to Yale University’s Beinecke Library allowed writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig to adapt her breakout 1970 novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, for Lionsgate in a movie due April 28 and Mara Brock Akil to make a series for Netflix loosely inspired by her 1975 novel Forever.
“Why would I want that?” Over the course of three years, Pardo’s passion and quiet persistence eventually won Blume over.Īgreeing to the doc was part of a series of decisions Blume has made recently to open up her life and work to others. “I said, ‘I don’t want a documentary about my life,’ ” Blume says, speaking by phone from her home in Key West, Florida, where she runs an independent bookstore and lives with her husband, George. While Pardo and Wolchok, the team behind the Emmy-winning HBO doc about New Yorker cartoonists, Very Semi-Serious, thought Blume was a natural subject for a film, the author herself took some persuading. Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok Courtesy of Sundance Institute (2)
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