‘The Diviners’ Author Libba Bray has some thoughts on this all-female ‘Lord of the Flies’ remake

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“There was the interview with a male journalist who was perplexed and discomfited by the books, because “Why all those women?” To which my response was, “Why NOT all those women?” followed by the sort of sweet Southern smile I perfected at my mama’s knee accompanied by a patient silence. Because I genuinely wanted the answer. “But. The. Men,” was almost always that answer, said with blinking incomprehension. As if women could only truly exist in relationship to a man: If a woman falls in the woods and there’s no man there to take the credit, does she make a sound?”

This week, news broke that an all-female remake of Lord of the Flies may be the works at Warner Bros. Audiences responded vocally on Twitter, and many noted that there were plenty of all-female nod…

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