54 years ago today, the iconic mid-century American poet Frank O’Hara was buried in Green River Cemetery, in Springs, New York, two days after being struck down by a jeep on Fire Island at the age of 40—a freakish tragedy Read more >
Irenosen Okojie, a Nigerian-British author, is this year’s winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Grace Jones.” The story, which appears in her 2019 collection Nudibranch, follows a Grace Jones impersonator in the aftermath of Read more >
What are you up to this summer? Planning an excursion to the woods? Kicking back with some good television and a beer? Alternatively, why don’t you come along with me for the ultimate socially-distanced leisure activity for our times: poring Read more >
Lana Del Rey is releasing her forthcoming poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, on Tuesday, July 28 in digital form. In case you prefer your celebrity poetry spoken aloud, though, she has also recorded an audio version of Read more >
As any and all Philip Pullman stans will undoubtedly already be aware, HBO just released the trailer for the second season of the latest adaptation of His Dark Materials, which features noted hot priest Andrew Scott, who will be portraying Read more >
If you watched the excellent HBO documentary last year about the Apollo Theater in New York City, you would have seen a moving, behind-the-scenes segment about Kamilah Forbes’s 2018 stage adaptation of her friend Ta-Nehisi Coates’ celebrated book, Between the World Read more >
Siobhan Reardon, president and director of the Philadelphia Free Library, has resigned under protracted pressure from local officials and staff over accusations that she created an unwelcome and hostile environment for black employees. “In the last several months, events have Read more >
Elisabeth Moss has been on a literary adaptation hot-streak of late. In just the past five years, the Emmy-winning breakout star of Mad Men (whom Vulture dubbed the “Queen of Peak TV”) has appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale, The Invisible Man, Read more >
In an address on the Senate floor yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell drew on novelist Salman Rushdie to decry the “grievance-industrial complex”—cancel culture—and bemoan what he sees as the erosion of law and order. Meanwhile, in Portland, protestors continued to Read more >
Yes, this is hockey news on a website devoted to book culture, but look: I am from Canada and the Kraken is an ancient mythological creature, and mythology is foundational to all of those books you’re carrying in that tote Read more >
[Updated 1:18 pm ET] Michael Cohen will be released from prison on Friday under orders from a federal judge, who said he was re-imprisoned after an initial release to home confinement in retaliation for his plans to publish a book Read more >
Early this year, we ran a story about GPT-2, an AI language program developed by the San Francisco-based research firm OpenAI. While language generation software can have a variety of commercial uses, we were more interested in seeing whether innovations Read more >
A Hulu series based on Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel Rodham is in the works. The novel is an alternate history of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life in which she dates (and definitely sleeps with) Bill, but ultimately decides not to marry him. Read more >
Today, Simon and Schuster announced that their imprint Scribner will be publishing the debut novel for adults from #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book author Jason Reynolds, whose books include Look Both Ways and Ghost, both finalists for the Read more >
This is definitely a clickbait title because I don’t really know the answer. In contemplating Nadim Shamma-Sourgen’s recently announced book deal with Walker Books (who will publish a collection of his “astonishing” poetry next summer) I have spent the last Read more >
It is a truth universally acknowledged that vampires make for the best entertainment content. They do, they just do, and they always have. In the latest news about humankind’s obsession with vampires, Aimee Ortiz reports in The New York Times that Read more >
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