DAVENPORT, IOWA (December 2, 2024) — The Last Picture House will welcome author Rachel Yoder with a screening of the new Amy Adams film Nightbitch, adapted from her 2021 novel. The film will screen on Friday December 13, 7PM, and will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Rachel 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.
About Rachel Yoder
Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch, her début novel. Formerly the 23/24 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.
Her 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.
