What is the status of Rudy Joffroys movie adaptation?
Rudy’s film is in pre-production. It will be an independent film. The screen adaptation was written by Ron Nyswaner, author of Philadelphia and The Painted Veil. As far as I know, they intend to start shooting in 2008. Amazon.com customers who bought The Devil’s Highway also purchased Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario; Coyotes, by Ted Conover; Dead in Their Tracks, by John Annerino; and your own Across the Wire and By the Lake of Sleeping Children. Which two other books might you suggest as complements to The Devil’s Highway? Ana Castillo’s The Guardians will be featured at the book festival and is a remarkable accomplishment. A book that may surprise you and delight you and that showed me something new about the border (which I never thought was possible) is Keith Bowden’s The Tecate Journals, a book I wish I’d written where a mad adventurer rows a canoe down the entire length of the Rio Grande. The theme of this year’s Wisconsin Book Festival is “Domestic Tranquility.” How might yo
