The Atlantic

The Blockbuster That Captured a Growing American Rift

In a cramped, $50-a-month room above a New Jersey furnace-supply company, Peter Benchley set to work on what he once said, half-jokingly, might be “a Ulysses for the 1970s.” A novel resulted from ...
The New York Times

50 Years Ago, ‘Jaws’ Hit Bookstores, Capturing the Angst of a Generation

The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval. Publishing savvy, Hollywood hype and a killer cover helped ...
The New York Times

50 Years After ‘Jaws’ Terrified Filmgoers, a Reporter Looks Back

Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws” hit theaters 50 years ago this month, in June 1975, and became a phenomenon almost instantly. In some ways that was no surprise: The Peter Benchley novel it was based ...
Comicbook.com

The Jaws: The Revenge Novelization Is Even Crazier Than the Film

Both the movie and book versions of Jaws: The Revenge revolve around a new shark finding its way to Amity Island, murdering one of Chief Brody’s sons, and then traveling from New England to the ...
USA Today

50 years ago, ‘Jaws’ scared us senseless. We never got over it.

Name that theme song: Dunnn-dun. Dunnn-dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun. Who are we kidding? That terrifying two-note John Williams creation of course conjures the opening shark strike in “Jaws,” ...