New Yorker writer Ian Parker read the book in the course of profiling the generally press-shy writer and megamillionaire and has the first details of its contents.

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He also persuaded a young writer on his staff to take the course, in order to wean herself from various medications.

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Madea is, of course, the very popular creation of Tyler Perry, the director, writer, and impresario, who is, at forty, the most financially successful black person the American film industry has ever known.

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Of course the reader needs a reason to continue, but the best reason is simply confidence that the writer is going some place interesting.

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Whedon is a talented writer and director, and certainly hype for the film has been building for years and over the course of a number of origin-story prequels.

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