Pico Iyer on decolonizing travel: “The world has gotten so much more interesting in our lifetimes.” –On The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan * Erin Somers on rich kids, melancholy, slapstick, and more: “I think that it would be really Read more >
Everyone is in shock. How did this happen? * My family arrives and no one knows what to do with their hands or where they should be looking or how they should be feeling. They just sit and wait for Read more >
On May 14, Busy Philipps sent out a tweet. “1 in 4 women have had an abortion,” she wrote, in reference to a December 2017 study published in the American Journal of Public Health. “Many people think they don’t know 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 >
We all know L. Frank Baum as the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its many sequels. But you may not know that he lived quite a few lives before becoming a beloved children’s book author. He sold Read more >
According to Screen Daily, there’s a new, as-yet untitled biopic in the works about your very favorite surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington, whom Dorothy recently brought back into our lives. It will be based not on Carrington’s work but on Read more >
Don’t buy these books. I know! Usually we’re all “bUy aLL tHe BoOks”! Especially when they’re authentic books, as these books are. Laura Miller tweeted some stern words about these books-by-the-foot, which are sold for decoration and/or tricking people into Read more >
The most best remarks at the 27th-annual Authors Guild benefit technically came from someone who wasn’t there: the seven-year-old who wrote Mary Pope Osborne her first piece of fan mail. Osborne recounted to the audience of authors, donors, and other Read more >
Calling the highly specific group of writers who have $150 to burn and would like to care for an organic farm in upstate New York: there’s a contest just for you! Here are some things about it: –It’s the most Read more >
Rainn Wilson—the endearingly oddball funnyman whose film and TV credits include The Office, The Rocker, The Meg, and dozens of other things I haven’t actually seen but would probably watch on a plane—is narrating a new audiobook of Norton Juster’s classic children’s Read more >
In January of 2018, Michael Wolff’s Trump exposé Fire and Fury was published to major uproar—and massive sales. So, like any good creator of a blockbuster hit, he set about to write a sequel. Today, Axios reported that Siege: Trump Under Fire, Read more >
There are inherent risks in asking a debut novelist to recap his experience at a new literary festival taking place in his hometown. First, he might be exhausted and hungover. (Fact check: he is.) Second, as a former Minnesotan and Read more >
It’s always a good day when a new Taffy Brodesser-Akner enters the world. I will read anything Brodesser-Akner—master profiler and debut novelist(!)—writes, but her piece in the New York Times today, “Stuff Your ‘Rules,” is especially My Jam. I love Read more >
On March 14th and 15th, Princeton University’s Brazil LAB opened its doors to academics and activists from Brazil and the United States for the symposium “Black Feminisms Across the Americas: A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco.” Over 300 people Read more >
Doris Day, the actress, singer and animal rights activist (who didn’t need an Oscar to ensure her greatness) died Sunday at 97. Day was one of the last larger-than-life links to the “Golden Age” of Hollywood filmmaking, perhaps best known Read more >
According to Publishers Marketplace, Issa Rae has optioned Tayari Jones’s 2011 novel Silver Sparrow, which is “about the young daughter of a bigamist who, flouting the unwritten rule against making contact with her half-sister, decides to befriend her, setting into motion Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
David Foster Wallace’s 2006 profile of Roger Federer is a canonical piece of sportswriting, and will likely remain so (though maybe with an asterisk) despite Jeremy Gordon’s recent observation in The Outline that DFW seems to have conjured Roger Federer’s Read more >
Graywolf Press is celebrating their 45th anniversary tomorrow with a literary soirée in New York City—congratulations, you guys. If you’re not familiar with this fantastic independent press, or you’d like to get to know it a little better, here are Read more >
Fans have been frustrated with George R. R. Martin’s slow writing pace for years. After publishing the first three novels in his A Song of Ice and Fire series at a steady clip, one book every two years, he began Read more >
