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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]