On adapting the contemporary American novel / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The waki nightmare of Mike Nichols' Catch-22 / Robert Merrill and John L. Simons -- O flew, two followed : stage and screen adaptations of Cuckoo's nest / Barry H Leeds -- Slaughterhouse-five : fiction into film / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Chan encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The world according to Garp : novel to film / Bruce Bawer -- Sophie's choice, Pakula's choices / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Adapting The color purple : when f goes pop / John Peacock -- Ironweed and the snows of reduction / Benedict Gi -- Tough guy goes Hollywood : Mailer and the movies / Barry H. Leeds -- Doctorow's Billy Bathgate : compelling postmodern novel, retro-realist film Michael Bruce McDonald.
