Last December, the literary world mourned the loss of essayist Eve Babitz—joyful, sharp observer of Los Angeles. Now, The Huntington Library in San, Marino has announced it has acquired Babitz’s archive, meaning researchers will be able to browse drafts of Read more >
George Saunders has been busy—teaching the craft of writing (rigorously, one might add) on Substack, as well as continuing to teach at Syracuse—but his personal writing hasn’t taken a backseat: on October 18, Random House will publish Liberation Day, his Read more >
If you, like Oprah, Reese, Emma, other Emma, Kaia, and Jenna before you, are planning to start your own book club, your first order of business is to make sure you’re extremely famous—whether via your famous model mother or your Read more >
Earlier this week I noted that billion-dollar-Bard College had decided to cut funding to legendary lit journal Conjunctions. Well, that decision apparently caused so much outrage that the ever vibe-conscious Bard is now trying to figure out how to keep Read more >
Critics and audiences are hailing the release of Abbott Elementary, ABC’s new workplace sitcom created by and starring Quinta Brunson (and, by the way, featuring a virtuosic comedic performance by Janelle James). Abbott Elementary, which received the highest comedy ratings Read more >
In March 2020, I happened to be working at a library for the first time (shoutout to my friends at BPL), and got to witness up-close how quickly the staff pivoted their services to respond to the pandemic: shifting programming Read more >
Look at these lads go! (They are holding a copy of Don Winslow’s forthcoming novel, City on Fire, which comes out in April.) A 47 second break from the world to make you smile!pic.twitter.com/O48b1Kq8zm — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) March 9, Read more >
Last week, Beto O’Rourke easily won the Democratic primary for Texas governor—the same week Flatiron Books took the North American rights to O’Rourke’s nonfiction book We’ve Got To Try. We’ve Got To Try follows the life and work of Dr. Read more >
The times they are a-changin’: Bob Dylan’s first book in eighteen years is coming out this November via Simon & Schuster. It will be Dylan’s first published book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. According to Simon Read more >
Colson Whitehead announced via Twitter that his new novel, Crook Manifesto, will be published in Summer 2023. Summer 2023 pic.twitter.com/Q10AhjZxex — colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) March 8, 2022 “The novel follows Ray Carney in New York City in the 1970s. Pepper Read more >
New map just dropped: check out a new and improved view of the London Underground, courtesy of authors Reni Eddo-Lodge and Rebecca Solnit, who worked with Emma Watson to create a visual homage to the women who shaped British history Read more >
Details (screenshot below) of an announcement slated for today were revealed on Twitter last night, and were confirmed by Conjunctions founder and editor Bradford Morrow: Bard College is going to cease funding the legendary literary journal at the end of Read more >
Sixteen years after he devastated absolutely everyone with The Road, Cormac McCarthy is publishing two linked novels this fall: The Passenger on October 25 and Stella Maris on November 22. (Or you can wait until December 6 to get your boxed set.) Together, the Read more >
Somebody get Michael Douglas out of Cryosleep and hose him down with CK Obsession because the erotic thriller is back, baby. Yes, it gives me no small amount of pleasure to report that 81-year-old ET Hall of Famer Adrian Lyne—the Read more >
Janeites rejoice: Vanity Fair has released snapshots from Searchlight Pictures’s Fire Island, the new, queer adaptation of Pride and Prejudice written by comedian Joel Kim Booster. Booster stars as Noah, a modern spin on Elizabeth Bennet; Margaret Cho and Bowen Read more >
Dolly Parton fans—and Stella Parton, Dolly’s sister—have issued stern rejoinders to a conservative lawmaker who claimed Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which sends over one million free books to month to children ages 0-5, could be sending children age-inappropriate content. At Read more >
Kiki, are you reading? Drake seems to be! Approximately ten hours ago, Drake (@champagnepapi) posted a photo to his Instagram story of what appears to be his TBR pile. What a time to be alive. It’s brought on a lot Read more >
On this day in 1890, perhaps after a nightmare caused by “a too-generous helping of dressed crab at supper,” Bram Stoker began work on Dracula, a novel that would take him seven years to complete. But years before that fateful Read more >
This is really cool. Researchers and literary historians have realized that the same mathematical models used by ecologists to account for lost or missing species from any given ecosystem can be applied to lost or missing literature. In this case, Read more >
Here are a few new books roaring in like a lion this week! With new books from NoViolet Bulawayo, Ladee Hubbard, Tara Isabella Burton, and more, there’s something for everyone in this bookstore bounty. * NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (Viking) “If Read more >
