Based on the eye-opening memoir of the same name, “The Glass Castle” chronicles the lives of the Walls family, consisting of four children and a father and mother with decidedly unorthodox parenting ...

Jeannette Walls’ memoir “The Glass Castle,” which spent seven years on the best-seller list, is no fairy tale: It’s a poignant story of growing up in a deeply dysfunctional family, headed by parents ...

“The Glass Castle” is a far better book than movie. While this is not surprising on its face, since books are often more complex, moving and involving than their screen adaptations, it is astonishing ...

If people leave The Glass Castle describing the Walls family as eccentric, this film will have done tremendous harm. There are times when it doesn’t seem like “eccentric” is the vibe writer-director ...

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for “The Glass Castle” memoir (2005) and film adaptation (2017). Welcome back to “The Bookmark,” your go-to column for book reviews! Last week, I featured ...

Back in 2005, Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir The Glass Castle wowed critics and readers with its unbelievable rags-to-riches story. It's no surprise Hollywood wanted to adapt it, as writing ...

The writer of “The Glass Castle” starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition. The author, with a hackberry tree, on the 320-acre property where she lives in central ...

Jeannette Walls was doing a reading in Dallas shortly after the publication of her 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. She spotted a woman in line, dressed to the nines, with big Dallas hair and big jewels.

Reporter Jeannette Walls was once hit on by a Kennedy. That’s what Kennedy men did. It was their life’s work. I knew her then, and when she made her bones writing a book about her dysfunctional family ...

In one of the first scenes of The Glass Castle, Rex Walls, played by Woody Harrelson, forcibly throws his daughter, who can't swim, into the deep end of a pool. On purpose. Not once. Not twice. But ...