It seems like everyone (ahem) has a summer reading list for you this week—even Bill Gates. As you probably know, Gates loves to read—and he also loves to write about books on his blog, GatesNotes, where today he published a Read more >
On Friday night, P&T Knitwear opened its doors on the Lower East Side to celebrate its grand opening. Any new indie bookstore/cafe is cause for applause, but this one in particular has a few fun bells and whistles worth mentioning! Read more >
Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Read more >
For the people who love book events but who hate getting off the couch, this one’s for you! * In Conversation: Lydia Conklin and Leslie Jamison June 6 @ 7pm EST In Lydia Conklin’s Rainbow Rainbow, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming Read more >
I love Pizza Hut with a white hot passion, and I do firmly believe that it should always be trending because of its cheesy goodness. They had stuffed crust ages before Papa John’s deigned to attempt it. (My only beef Read more >
A group of activists employed by Amazon protested the sale of anti-trans books on its platform with a die-in on Wednesday, which they held during a company event recognizing the start of Pride Month. The employees, members of the group Read more >
Prison book bans are literally always cruel and pointless (for that matter, so are prisons), but this one is especially bad: NPR’s Morning Edition reported that over the past year, Michigan has banned dictionaries in Spanish and Swahili. According to spokesperson Read more >
One of the nice things about Twitter (I guess?) is that anyone can talk to anyone… which is what Stephen King did yesterday when he complained about the bifurcation of Stranger Things’ new season. Here’s what the greatest horror writer Read more >
Did you know that J.P. Morgan releases a summer reading list every year? (I didn’t, and I’m the person who does these.) Last week, the bank (??) announced its 23rd annual (??) summer reading list, which “invit[es] readers worldwide to Read more >
Death of a Salesman is returning to Broadway! In 1949, Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for this play, a critique of the futility of chasing the American Dream. Willy Loman has spent so much of his life on the Read more >
Spotted in Dimes Square: the Vice-President’s stepdaughter, a high-end fashion brand, and some “buzzy wordsmiths.” Yes, once again a luxury fashion brand (Burberry) has reached down into the primordial ooze of putatively transgressive hipster culture for… what? Substance? Art? Credibility? Read more >
For some reason, whenever I sit down to make this list of paperbacks coming out this month, Justin Timberlake’s 2006 hit always gets stuck in my head: We’re bringing paperback (yeah). * Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl (Atria, Read more >
Focusing on a screen, whether it’s your work screen or your post-work FUN SCREEN(!), can feel like it’s draining the life force right out of you and making it impossible to focus on anything longer than 280 characters (and to Read more >
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of the 1999 novel Chocolat (adapted into a memorable film starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench) and former teacher, suggested at this year’s Hay Festival that boys read less than girls at least in part Read more >
Tom Hanks is arguably one of our more literary actors. The author/typewriter enthusiast and (of course) co-star of You’ve Got Mail is leading Disney’s new live-action film, Pinocchio, based on of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Read more >
Welcome back from the long weekend, friends! It can be hard to get back into the swing of things, but at least there are a lot of new books here to greet you. * David Sedaris, Happy-Go-Lucky (Little, Brown) “Unrest, Read more >
All billionaires are bad, but MacKenzie Scott—novelist, Toni Morrison protégée, and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos—is at least doing a better job than most at growing her vast fortune at a slightly less alarming rate than most of the other billionaires in the Read more >
The Art of Losing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by French novelist Alice Zeniter has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, a prize which comes with a handsome glass trophy and the world’s largest purse for a single novel published in English—a Read more >
If you enjoyed watching an 80-year-old Margaret Atwood buzzing around New Zealand on a scooter, you’re gonna love watching an 82-year-old Margaret Atwood wielding the coolest (and most supervillain-y) of handheld weapons: the humble American flamethrower. Yes, last night, during Read more >
I’m sorry, you just shouldn’t write in library books. Do whatever you want with your own books—highlighter, pen, pencil, the blood of the innocent—but being a member of a library is a contract with your fellow readers, and you should Read more >
