According to NPD Bookscan—not perfect, as we all know, but the best the industry’s got—the best-selling book of the last decade in the United States was . . . well, I’m sure you guessed it before you ever clicked here. Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
With her sensitive turn in Arrival, Amy Adams showed us yet again how good she is, and proved that she can add emotional depth to a literary adaptation. Adams is set to star in another novel adaptation, The Woman in the Window, and Read more >
If, like me, you woke up to tweets that seemed very angry at J.K. Rowling and want to know why without needing to wade through dozens of horrified gifs, here’s the deal. Why are people so mad? Rowling is attracting criticism Read more >
As the second largest public library system in the US, and one of the biggest in the world, the New York Public Library can give us a definitive sense of what readers have been loving most this year. Yesterday, the Read more >
The reviews for the new star-studded film version of Cats, adapted from the T. S. Eliot poem via Andrew Lloyd Webber, are in. And boy, they are bad. “It is very obvious that Cats should not exist,” wrote one critic. Read more >
Happy whatever to you all! This holiday season, I, Jessie Gaynor, Social Media Editor, have decided to give you the gift of time. All the time you might have spent @-ing us, or emailing us, or sending us a letter Read more >
Galley Beggar, the independent press that published Lucy Ellmann’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Ducks, Newburyport, is facing a sudden financial crisis following yesterday’s news that Book People, an online retailer based in the UK, has basically declared bankruptcy (if you want to Read more >
Good news, lovers of brooding Irish actors and tragicomic literary noir: Michael Fassbender—the Academy Award-nominated Hiberno-German star of Inglourious Basterds, Shame, and the latest incarnation of the X-Men movies—has optioned the film rights to Night Boat to Tangier, Irish author Read more >
Haruki Murakami ended a nearly 25-year streak of avoiding public readings today, when he held an event to mark four decades since his authorial debut. He appeared with novelist Mieko Kawakami, who won the Akutagawa Prize in 2008 and interviewed Read more >
First he brought us Step Up 2: The Streets. Then he brought us Step Up 3D. (Where he was for the original Step Up, I couldn’t tell you.) But then, most notably, he directed blockbuster rom-com Crazy Rich Asians in 2018. Now Read more >
It’s raining today in London, but those still determined to visit its feminist landmarks may be rewarded with a soggy copy of Little Women, courtesy of Emma Watson’s latest book-hiding stint. After striking the New York subway and London Underground in Read more >
‘Tis the season of realizing the limits of your spacial awareness! “Measure twice, cut once”? In this economy? Luckily, UK bookseller Waterstones has opened our eyes to a new way of rectifying our (easily preventable) gift-wrapping fuck-ups. Behold: This is Read more >
Did you know that master fantasist George R.R. Martin opened his own movie theater in Santa Fe, the Jean Cocteau Cinema? Well, now he’s opening a bookstore next door, Beastly Books. As Martin writes, on his blog: We’ve been doing Read more >
File under how we live now: a Mesa, Arizona man allegedly stole over $16,000 worth of rare books from an associate’s private collection. Over the course of a year, 60-year-old Jeffrey William Grande took and resold titles like Time Machine Read more >
Earlier today, the employees of the New York City-based indie bookshop McNally Jackson voted to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum says, “We’re proud to welcome the workers of McNally Jackson into our Read more >
That’s right, Celeste Ng fans: a trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, the star-studded Hulu adaptation of Ng’s wildly-successful 2017 novel—about the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives when they move to Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
PEN America has just announced its literary longlists for 2020. The awards will confer over $330,000 in total to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2019. The categories span fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, Read more >
Congrats to Susan Choi for ending the year on a high note: her novel Trust Exercise, which won this year’s National Book Award for Fiction, is in development to become a limited television series with FilmNation Entertainment. Choi will write Read more >
