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48 literary social media accounts you should be following.

I think we all know this fact: social media is a big part of our lives, whether we even have a social media account or not. And I think we all know another: that social media has impacted the way Read more >

By Rasheeda Saka

Here is the book you should read based on your favorite episode of The Twilight Zone.

[Rod Serling Voice]You are about to enter the realm between light and dark, the nebulous space between silver screen and written word. Here, weary traveler, you find yourself with your back to the closed door of the Twilight Zone. In Read more >

By Katie Yee

Because money is great, Faber is publishing the complete Normal People screenplays.

As The Bookseller reports, UK publisher Faber has announced that they will be releasing the complete screenplays of Normal People, the popular BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel of the same name. Whether or not you understand on a larger Read more >

By Emily Temple

Bryan Washington's new novel will be adapted for television.

Well, that didn’t take long: Two weeks before its release by Riverhead, Bryan Washington’s Memorial has been acquired by A24 for television. Washington will adapt his novel, which focuses on a couple, Benson and Mike, and the choices they make as Read more >

By Corinne Segal

Aleksandar Hemon has been awarded the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

Today, Longwood University announced that Aleksander Hemon has been named the winner of the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. The prize is Longwood University’s premier literary award—the largest literary award of any Virginia college or university; it aims to Read more >

By Rasheeda Saka

18 new books to get from your local indie today.

Today is apparently Amaz*n Prime Day, which I strongly encourage you to boycott by buying all these new books from your favorite independent bookstore. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, because you, dear reader, know that Jeff Bezos Read more >

By Katie Yee

Leo Lionni's gorgeous picture books are about what it means to be an artist.

Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than forty children’s books in his lifetime, but the one which is the most meaningful to me might be his most famous: Frederick, the story of a little field mouse who keeps his family Read more >

By Olivia Rutigliano

Your favorite modern horror movies, reimagined as '70s mass market paperbacks.

Yesterday, on Twitter, Elizabeth Belsky, a senior marketing manager at Hachette Books, shared her “little personal project of the month: reimagining modern horror films as trade paperbacks from the ’70s and ’80s.” And um, they’re incredibly awesome—the perfect blend of nostalgic Read more >

By Emily Temple

These are absolutely the ten best Sandra Boynton books.

Do you have a smush of a child who is aged in between eating books and listening to you read them? Then you probably own three or six or twenty Sandra Boynton titles. Boynton, who has sold over seven million Read more >

By Emily Firetog

An editor snuck Covid-19 into Don DeLillo's new novel—but DeLillo took it out at the last moment.

Over the weekend, in The New York Times Magazine, David Marchese spoke with Don DeLillo, the notoriously interview-shy Nobel bridesmaid whose latest novel, The Silence, will be published next week. Rather than beginning with broad strokes, Marchese’s first question reveals a Read more >

By Emily Temple

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Tana French’s The Searcher, Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, Phil Klay’s Missionaries, and V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Read more >

By Book Marks

The NYRB just bought Milton Glaser's old townhouse.

Pandemic shopping: it’s just so hard to resist, especially when your purchase comes with some intrigue. The Real Deal reports today that the townhouse at 207 East 32nd Street, first built in 1902, has been sold to the New York Read more >

By Corinne Segal

Fans of French Exit will love the new film adaptation.

At this point in the pandemic, moviegoing has come to feel downright archaic to many, but anyone with an internet connection—and a select few with a car to take them to the drive-ins set up in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Read more >

By Joseph Pomp

Remember: Dirty Dancing demonstrated the best response to a guy pushing Ayn Rand on you.

Dirty Dancing has given us many things. A love story. A drama about class. An argument for legalized abortion. A million classic wedding songs. “No one puts Baby in a corner.” And of course, The Lift. It also, as I Read more >

By Emily Temple

Charlie Kaufman is adapting Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police into a feature film.

Yōko Ogawa’s acclaimed surrealist novel—the story of a young woman, struggling to maintain her career as a writer on a island where objects are disappearing, who concocts a plan to hide her endangered editor from the Memory Police—was one of Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

"I feel like a tracker in the forest following a scent." Louise Glück on how she writes.

In spite of everything, some good things happen in 2020. Case in point: Louise Glück won a Nobel Prize for Literature today, bringing us a great reason to revisit some of the fantastic interviews she’s done over her long career Read more >

By Corinne Segal