HBO's Lovecraft Country is poised to do justice to The Negro Motorist Green Book’s legacy that the film Green Book never could

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Victor Hugo Green's The Negro Motorist Green Book "deserves a telling of its tales that both respects what the book meant and can speak to the large audience that can and should know more about its importance," Charles Pulliam-Moore says of the Jordan Peele- and J.J. Abrams-produced Lovecraft County. "Where Green Book failed, HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel Lovecraft Country can and should succeed in ways that are readily apparent the moment you begin reading the book."