I’ve been a part of many book clubs. The most successful one was the brain fruit of my most energetic friend. We met weekly, and she’d cook lavish multi-course meals inspired by the novels we chose. But the group lost Read more >
Governor Tim Walz, the K-Hive’s lately anointed candidate for America’s first vice-uncle, has been charming optimistic electoralists all week with his pleasure-to-have-in-class energy. Walz’s blithe bona fides stand out in a party whose best-known leaders tend to be millionaires with Read more >
A group of poet laureates across the United States were awarded $50,000 each from The Academy of American Poets as part of The Academy’s Fellowship Prize. The group represents a diverse body, and the funding will go towards unique projects Read more >
Maybe you’ve experienced this before: you’re reading, and starting to realize that this book is not for you. Whether it’s the bad characters, the bad plotting, or the plain old bad writing, you’re getting ready to close this book for Read more >
August is upon us! It’s been quite a summer already, filled with heat waves, international political chaos, wildfires, and more. Still, as I always say, there’s one constant you can feel some comfort with: that there will be new books Read more >
The inaugural Inside Prize has named its first recipient—the author Imani Perry. The new book award is “a collaborative project of Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, Center for Justice Innovation and Dallas bookstore owner Lori Feathers.” And in a Read more >
James Baldwin would have turned a hundred years old today. There are far more than a hundred reasons to celebrate the man. A brilliant, complicated author and one of our most fearsome public intellectuals, he left cultural fingerprints everywhere. And Read more >
I knew the Olympics had begun when my phone started buzzing. Big events like the Games currently underway in Paris are like embers drifting on the wind, igniting thousands of group chats across the globe. Much as Ancient Roman oracles Read more >
Distinct among the literary prizes for its emphasis on debuts, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize has been recognizing “exciting emerging voices in contemporary fiction” since 2006. This year, a panel of readers and judges selected a longlist of Read more >
August, astonishingly, approaches already. But if time feels like it’s moving too quickly, I have a bit of a blast from the past (and future) for you: twenty-seven books being released in paperback this August (and one from July, accidentally Read more >
Here it is: the 2024 Booker Prize longlist, heavy on previously nominated authors and featuring new voices, including the first Native American and Dutch authors. Edmund de Waal, the head of the judging committee, described the list of 13 novels Read more >
The end of July is upon us. (What a month it’s been, Dear Readers, what a wild, wild month.) And how better to usher in a new, hopefully less wild month than with new things to read and delight in? Read more >
You loved them first at the library. There, they bewitched you with their preternatural gumption, and vulnerability. Their zany ideas and wicked wit. They were your first best friends. But then you lost touch. Life got in the way. And Read more >
Last week, shortly after the announcement that JD Vance would be joining the Republican ticket, I was working my bookstore gig at The Golden Notebook when a woman came in and asked me if we had any copies of Hillbilly Elegy. Read more >
We’re living in the golden age of wacky book merch: Raven Leilani’s Luster nail polish, Sally Rooney’s on-trend Beautiful World bucket hats, and now Sable Yong’s Die Hot With A Vengeance perfume. Of course, this is nothing new — the Read more >
Emily Nussbaum’s latest book, Cue the Sun, chronicles the rise and fall of reality television. In chipper prose, the rigorously researched history explores how certain networks have managed to seize our collective attention span with a spate of “real” programming. Read more >
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