It’s Friday, so why not look at some pictures of beautiful (literature-inspired) dresses that cost as much as pretty nice cars! Designer Kim Jones told British Vogue that his first collection for the luxury fashion house Fendi was inspired by Read more >
It’s Friday AND it’s Anton Chekhov’s birthday AND we’re in the middle of an endless pandemic so I’m going to rank the following images of young Chekhov according to their hotness. Because I am a serious literary man. 10. Is Read more >
Are you stressed out? Bored? Looking at all the centuries-old books on your shelf and wondering how best to restore them to their original glory? If any of the above, this video, made by Sophia Bogle of Save Your Books, Read more >
Despite the struggles quarantine posed for musicians, 2020 was a breakout year for 20-year-old singer-songwriter Arlo Parks—from releasing six singles to being named BBC’s Introducing Artist of the Year to to winning the AIM Independent Music Award for One to Read more >
Last summer, we learned that Netflix and Warner Bros. had inked a “massive financial deal” to adapt Neil Gaiman’s Sandman into a live-action TV series—the most expensive TV series DC Entertainment has ever done. Gaiman himself is co-executive producing, as Read more >
Some fun news (thank goodness!): China’s first 3D-printed bookstore has just been built in Shanghai and is scheduled to open to the public at the end of January. With a floor area of thirty square meters, it can accommodate fifteen Read more >
Given that we’re all justifiably afraid about the breath of others right now, it’s a weird time to be dating. While the warmer months at least offered the possibility of outdoor meetings, now it’s winter and, like all other things, Read more >
Hats off to Min Jin Lee, who just announced that she’s writing the script for the upcoming adaptation of her celebrated 2007 novel, Free Food for Millionaires. The show, to be produced by Alan Yang (Master of None), will take Read more >
This morning, PR Newswire broke the news that Literati, an “innovative literary brand,” has just raised 40 million dollars in Series B funding. Among its investors is NBA giant Steph Curry. If you’re anything like me, you may have some Read more >
During this pandemic, a lot of people have started making sourdough and knitting and woodworking and running outside. Me? I’ve also got a quarantine hobby. It’s picking up trash from the street and bringing it into my home. When you Read more >
A win for weird fiction! Yesterday, Deadline announced that Claire Foy (The Crown, Unsane, First Man) is set to star in the Gillian Robespierre-directed adaptation of Melissa Broder’s critically acclaimed novel The Pisces. Foy will play Lucy, a burned-out PhD Read more >
Merriam-Webster.com—the online dictionary/thesaurus into which, if memory serves, the consciousness of 18th/19th century American lexicographer Noah Webster was uploaded by Vice President Al Gore back in 1996—this morning produced a massive dump (if CNN’s election team can use this terminology Read more >
If you’re on the hunt for new literary rabbit holes, today is your lucky day. The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, created by lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower (a former editor of both the OED and Random House Dictionaries) is “a comprehensive Read more >
Yesterday, The Hollywood Reporter announced that A+E Studios and ITV Studios America are partnering with Vikings and The Tudors writer Michael Hirst on a TV miniseries based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hirst will also executive produce, along The Great Gatsby is coming to the small screen.">Read more >
Drop your buffs! The reality TV show contestant Stephen Fishbach, most well-known as the strategically gifted runner-up of Survivor: Tocantins and slightly less well-known as one of People’s hottest bachelors of 2009, is now a full-time fiction writer, completing a Read more >
Today is the anniversary of one of the more charming letters in American history: Benjamin Franklin writing to his daughter Sally trashing the newly adopted Great Seal of America featuring a bald eagle (pictured above is the original proposed design Read more >
Now that a certain someone is banned from Twitter, that really begs the question: What are you going to do with all those hours you used to spend doomscrolling? I mean, I know we’re all still doomscrolling, but surely this frees Read more >
That’s right. Danielle Steel may not have had the easiest time writing during lockdown, but she’s still, you know, Danielle Steel, a woman who writes staggering numbers of best-selling books at an enormous desk handcrafted to look like a stack Read more >
There’s something so delightful about watching a movie or television show and spying a famous author on screen. It’s how I imagine a birdwatcher would feel if they spotted a rare bird while they were just walking to the grocery Read more >
There are teaser trailers and then there are teaser trailers. Sometimes all you get are a few maddeningly blurry flashes of action. Often it’s just snippet of ponderous dialogue over a slow-moving title card. But occasionally, very occasionally, a teaser Read more >
