The Last Picture House will welcome author Rachel Yoder with a screening of the new Amy Adams film “Nightbitch,” adapted from her 2021 novel of the same name.
The screening will begin at 7 p.m., Friday Dec. 13, and be followed by an in-person Q&A with Ms. Yoder. Tickets are on sale at lastpicturehouse.com and in the lobby of The Last Picture House in downtown Davenport.
“Nightbitch” is about a woman (Amy Adams), thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.
The film is directed by Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) and premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. “Nightbitch” will continue screening at The Last Picture House from December 14–19.
‘Nightbitch’ is Ms. Yoder’s debut novel. Formerly the 2023/24 Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she now serves as assistant professor of Screenwriting and Cinema Arts at the University of Iowa.
Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, ‘Nightbitch’ has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize.
Ms. Yoder’s stories and essays have appeared in publications such as Harper’s, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and The Sun. With Mark Polanzak, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.
