August, 2022 | Lauren Beukes

August 24, 2022

Shining Girls Included In Esquire’s Top 20 Apple TV+ Shows

Awesome to see Shining Girls included in Esquire's The 20 Best Show to Watch on Apple TV+ in 2022 - selected by Josh Rosenberg. Esquire's Adrienne Westenfeld interviewed me about The Shining Girls adaptation back in April. Westenfeld asked me a bunch of great questions during the interview. I spoke about my talks with Silka [...]

August 18, 2022

3 Weeks Until dConstruct

After a seven-year hiatus, dConstruct returns for a one-off event. Join us for a day of thought-provoking talks on design transformation from a stellar array of forward-thinking innovators. DConstruct, one of my favourite tech and culture conferences is back, in Brighton in September with a very cool line up of speakers including a neuroscientist, a [...]

August 17, 2022

Daily Maverick Think Afterland Will Grab You And Send You Into A Stupor Of Reading

"Afterland grabbed me quickly and sent me into a stupor of reading at a time – during the first hard lockdown – when concentrating on full sentences was proving very difficult." Back in October 2021 Keith Bain at South Africa's Daily Maverick interviewed me about Afterland and the themes that strongly paralleled the real world [...]

August 16, 2022

The Guardian Call Shining Girls Ferociously Intense, Nuanced And Unflinching

Thank you Lucy Mangan at The Guardian for a fantastic review on Shining Girls! A solid 4 stars! Mangan describes Moss' performance in the adaptation as "Ferociously intense, remarkably nuanced and completely unflinching [...]". After a short synopsis of the plot and a brief look at the characters, Mangan adds: "When you add Moss’s remarkable, [...]

August 11, 2022

Shining Girls Included In Most Anticipated Adaptations For 2022 Via Vulture

So cool seeing The Shining Girls in Vulture's list of new must read books being adapted for screen in 2022! Emily Maskell writes: "After The Handmaid’s Tale and Shirley, Elisabeth Moss seems to have developed quite the penchant for gripping dramas. Her next venture is The Shining Girls, in which she stars as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose memory [...]

August 10, 2022

Talking Afterland And When Women Become The Heroes And The Villains With NPR

Petra Mayer at NPR caught up with me to talk about Afterland back in 2020. Mayer asked some great questions! Exploring a world where women are free of patriarchy, the complex character relationships in the book, the different factions in Afterland and the important subjects that are always present in my writing. "It allowed me [...]

August 9, 2022

Feeling Nostalgic For The Shining Girls Novel With Slate

Laura Miller at Slate wrote a great article outlining some key differences between The Shining Girls adaptation and the book. Lovely to be reminded why we originally loved the book. I love how in-depth this article is, Miller challenges the adaptation a bit for shifting its focus on other bits which differ from the book. [...]

August 5, 2022

Writing About A Post Pandemic During Lockdown, Afterland and Shining Girls on Speak To The Geek

Throw-back to this super fun interview with Jon Keevy on Zarnia's Speak to the Geek. Jon has some questions about Afterland, being a writer and The Shining Girls adaptation. I talk in depth about Afterland and how I broke the mould with my characters, and about research trips to America, where Afterland is set in [...]

August 4, 2022

Zoo City In The Gaurdian’s Top 10 Books About Cybercrime

So cool to see Zoo City included in the Guardian's list of top ten cybercrime novels. Dan Malakin, author of The Box, calls Zoo City a "subversive banger of a novel by South African genre-smasher Lauren Beukes." Rad to see it included among more straight realist fare! "What better way to round off a cybercrime [...]

August 3, 2022

CBR Talk Stunts In Shining Girls With Matt LeFevour

CBR's Sam Stone talks to stunt coordinator Matt LeFevour about choreographing fight scenes and creating the epic WWI scene on the set of The Shining Girls adaptation. "It was amazing to see what started with a script evolve into these massive action sequences. I had great rapport with all of our directors, so I would [...]