Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes

No one captured the teen portion of the eighties as poignantly as writer-director John Hughes. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Some Kind of Wonderful are timeless tales of love, angst, longing, and self-discovery that illuminated and assuaged the anxieties of an entire generation.

Fondly nostalgic, filled with wit and surprising insights, don't you forget about me contains original essays from a skillfully chosen crop of novelists and essayists on the films' far-reaching effects on their own lives -- an irresistible read for anyone who came of age in the eighties (or just wishes they did).

Featuring new writing from:
Steve Almond * Julianna Baggott * Lisa Borders * Ryan Boudinot * T Cooper * Quinn Dalton * Emily Franklin * Lisa Gabriele * Tod Goldberg * Nina de Gramont * Tara Ison * Allison Lynn * John McNally * Dan Pope * Lewis Robinson * Ben Schrank * Elizabeth Searle * Mary Sullivan * Rebecca Wolff * Moon Unit Zappa

• John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more
• You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
• Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
• Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore)
• Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching '80s Movies
• You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Screenwriting is Rewriting: The Art and Craft of Professional Revision
• John Hughes and Eighties Cinema
• The Breakfast Club - Allison Reynolds