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Garth Stein on The Art of Racing in the Rain

 

They want to make my book into a movie?  Heck, they might as well make it into a haiku, I thought when I first got the news.

I mean, I spent a long time writing, revising, and crafting as good of a book as I possibly could.  And now they want to compress it to two hours of screen time?

But then I got a phone call from Patrick Dempsey, who had signed on to play the lead character, Denny Swift, and I thought, well, okay; I think this is going to work. Continue reading