For someone who has foreseen the downfall of society, Margaret Atwood sure is chipper and fast with the reparteé. Take her recent WIRED interview with Kate Knibbs (lucky you, Kate!), who did a great job of facilitating a wide-ranging and Read more >
Here are some fascinating new books to check out this week! * Rafael Frumkin, Confidence (Simon and Schuster) “Theranos but make it gay.” –Electric Literature Leila Aboulela, River Spirit (Grove) “Aboulela reveals the thin lines that can demarcate religious zeal and patriotic Read more >
The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature’s Lessons for a Long and Happy Life is not supposed to publish until tomorrow, March 7th, but is already a bestseller thanks to author Dr. David Agus’s comfort in the media habitat. He has been Read more >
Dear Sugar fans, it’s here: the Tiny Beautiful Things trailer, starring Kathryn Hahn as Clare (the Cheryl Strayed stand-in), with appearances in flashback by Merritt Wever as her mother and Maggie Rogers setting a fire in the background. Time to Read more >
Having never played The Last of Us the video game, I envision HBO’s adaptation as, essentially, The Mandalorian with Lyanna Mormont in place of baby Yoda. There is something fundamentally heart-murmur-inducing about a man clad in literal or emotional armor Read more >
You cannot be president unless you first allow yourself to imagine yourself as president. So goes the wisdom of self-help author and new-age guru Marianne Williamson, who is back, baby, with a 2024 run for the top job (before enlightenment Read more >
UPDATE MARCH 8: Contrary to first reports, R.L. Stine did not perform these edits! Rather, the publisher, Scholastic, employed the changes. Have some decency, he is not yet in the ground! * Whether or not you find it creepy for Read more >
In case you were wondering, today over at the Booker Prize website, Dua Lipa has planted her flag squarely in the pro-A Little Life camp. “I will happily admit, as a devoted and lifelong reader, that there are more than a Read more >
In big news for The Shop Around the Corner, Amazon.com Inc. was reported today to be pausing construction on its second headquarters in Virginia, per Bloomberg. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, let the cranes dangle idly alongside Read more >
Bad Robot has snagged the film rights to Mona Awad’s bestselling 2019 novel Bunny—a bloody satire of elite MFA programs that became a BookTok sensation after a Bunny movie fan-casting hashtag went viral. How viral? Somewhere in the region of 4.1 Read more >
Last night, the great pens of America convened at The Town Hall in NYC as Kal Penn presided over the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. For those felled by late-winter viruses who desire to get a taste of proceedings, a Read more >
The portrait is stern, defiant, of bountiful hairline. Shot by Ramona Rosales for the cover of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, it planted a flag in the golden Californian soil and hung a shark-tooth necklace around the decrepit institution it set Read more >
When they’re not launching NFTs or pasting their own labels onto mass-produced wine bottles, celebrities love to dip an Ozempic toe into the waters of children’s literature. Most recently, the world learned that Taylor Swift was getting the Golden Book Read more >
When Adam Sisman was in the process of writing John Le Carre: The Biography back in the 2010s, the author told his biographer, “I know it’s supposed to be warts and all … but so far as I can gather, Read more >
It’s true: a new Haruki Murakami novel—his first since 2017’s Killing Commendatore—will be published on April 13th . . . but only in Japan. Sorry to tease you, English-speaking readers! Still, not to fret: I’m sure this means that translations Read more >
This morning, Penguin Press announced that they will be publishing Zadie Smith’s next novel, The Fraud, on September 5, 2023. Here’s how the publisher describes the book: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, The Fraud is a kaleidoscopic work of historical Read more >
Earlier this week, Ewan McGregor was photographed in Bolton on the set of A Gentleman in Moscow, Paramount+’s upcoming limited series adaptation of Amor Towles’ mega-bestselling 2016 novel. McGregor plays the titular gentleman, Count Alexander Rostov, who, in in the aftermath of the Read more >
Attention book lovers yearning to get out of Dodge: a down-on-its-luck bookstore in the Welsh mining town of Blaenavon (population 6,055) is headed to (online) auction next week, with bidding to open at the low low price of £72,000. Sure, Read more >
Travelodge has released some new house-keeping data on the books most often left behind at its hotels in Scotland, and no, “the bible,” doesn’t top the list. Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is high on the list of forgotten Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Quiet Street: On American Privilege by Nick McDonell, which will be published by Pantheon this August. Here’s some background about the book from the publisher: Growing up on New York City’s Upper Read more >
