Hollywood Calls! From Bestselling Book to Big Screen Sensation

On Sunday, May 5, from 1 to 3 p.m., Literary Cape Ann presents three of our region’s best-selling authors sharing stories about how their books became popular movies and what that career-changing experience was like. Our panelists are Rodman Philbrick, author of “Freak the Mighty,” a middle grade book still taught in schools and made into the movie, “The Mighty”; Stephen McCauley, author of “The Object of My Affection” that became the movie of the same name; and Andre Dubus III, whose Oprah book club selection, “The House of Sand and Fog,” was also made into a movie. At the Cape Ann Cinema & Stage in downtown Gloucester. Free. Book sales and signing after the discussion. Co-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center and Bach Builders.