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 >
Earlier this year, the world lost a little-known light. Rachel Ingalls was the author of many delightfully gut-punching novels. Despite winning the Authors’ Club First Novel in 1970 for her debut Theft (even though it was intended for British writers!), Read more >
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish a memoir by Chelsea Manning in winter 2020, the publisher announced today. “Ms. Manning has made headlines around the world, but they couldn’t possibly capture the complexity of her experiences,” Colin Dickerman, FSG’s vice Read more >
The publication of a listicle entitled “The 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945” in the Sunday Times over the weekend left the Irish crime fiction community justifiably aghast, and author Brian McGilloway succinctly summed up why: Can’t decide Read more >
While taking a quick break from my serious weekend regimen of reading serious books about serious things I happened to accidentally graze my bespoke vellum bookmark across my phone and it opened Twitter (j/k, I only ever read Tweets now). Read more >
Hey, riders of public transit, don’t do this: on Friday, D.C.-based writer Natasha Tynes tweeted a photo of a Metro employee eating with the message, “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope Read more >
Much ink has been spilled on the problem of diversity and inclusion in corporate publishing, a systemic failing that can be pretty easily traced to money, or the lack of it. It costs a lot to live in New York Read more >
He did! On this very date, in 1849, outside the Astor Place Opera House in New York City, 22 people died after two actors—one American, and one British—clashed over poor reviews, paranoia, and booing. Blame the War of 1812 or Read more >
This morning, I spent some time researching whether Greg Kinnear is actually really Christian or just does those movies for the money (it seems like it’s for the money, though he does hope there’s golf in heaven!). This important research Read more >
In what can only be described as an act of inspired casting, the truly brilliant Kristin Scott Thomas will be joining Lily James and Armie Hammer in Ben Wheatley’s upcoming adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic masterpiece Rebecca—as all-time classic 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. Read more >
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