“Middlesex” Coming To HBO
If you judged America’s reading habits from the books I see on the New York subway, then Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “Middlesex” would be in the all-time Top Ten. Those underground page-turners should be happy with the news that the book — a coming-of-age tale about an intersex girl named Calliope Stephanides — is being developed into a series for HBO. Who’s doing that? Rita “Mrs. Tom Hanks” Wilson, who, in homage to her Greek ancestry, seems to snap up anything with a Greek name (in this case, the fictional figure, Miss Stephanides). Wilson will produce the series with playwright Donald Margulies.
