In honor of tomorrow’s US midterm elections (NB: please vote), I present: a little literary inspiration for the tireless Democratic party email scribes. Moby-Dick This is important, Ishmael. Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway said she would FUND the GOP HERSELF. David Read more >
Late Thursday night, North Hollywood’s Iliad Bookshop, one of the largest used bookstores in the Los Angeles area, was the target of an alleged arson attack. “Around 11:30 pm, someone piled the Iliad Bookshop’s free books up against the store’s Read more >
From about the ages of ten to sixteen I was an obsessive reader of fantasy; sadly, I eventually gave into juvenile ideas about literary snobbery and drifted away from the genre. Now that I have an 11-year-old of my own, Read more >
Well, here’s a study conducted purely to pander to the book internet: Researchers in the psychology department at St. Mary’s University in Calgary found that seven to eight year olds who read out loud to therapy dogs for fifteen minutes Read more >
Yesterday, Netflix dropped the nudity-forward trailer for its new adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s “controversial classic” Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was famously banned for being obscene—specifically due to thirteen “episodes of sexual intercourse” in the book, “described in the greatest detail. Read more >
A producing power trio of Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Whale, etc), Danny Stong (Dopesick, Game Change, The Butler) and Kit Steinkellner (Sorry for Your Loss) has scored a pilot order from FX for an adaptation of Read more >
Exciting news for fans of the expanded You’re Wrong Aboutiverse! Michael Hobbes—formerly of the equal parts entertaining and illuminating You’re Wrong About podcast (which he started with Sarah Marshall), currently of the just as excellent, diet-and-wellness-fad-debuking Maintenance Phase (co-hosted with Aubrey Gordon)—has a Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I’ve long desired the chance to hear Werner Herzog and Zlavoj Žižek talk at each other in an infinite loop of gnomic locutions. As celebrity intellectual gadflies with unique speaking styles go, Herzog and Read more >
Joan Didion’s estate sale, “An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion,” hosted by Stair Galleries, is open for bidding now through November 16. The collection includes plenty of iconic art, eyewear, and furniture, as well as a Read more >
Yes, in what seems certain to become the most critically-acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens’ festive opus ever committed to celluloid, Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell (like Bill Murray, Michael Caine, and Matthew McConaughey before them) are putting their own unique spin Read more >
We love to be active and engaged members of the literary community. We also love to not leave our bed. Now you can do both! * 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Celebration November 2 @ 7pm EST Hosted by Read more >
In a particularly heinous act of literary graverobbing a guy named Johnny Teague—a pastor and businessman running for congress in Texas’s 7th district—has written a “sequel” to The Diaries of Anne Frank. Yup. According to Jewish Telegraphic Agency: The Lost Read more >
Never not giving thanks for paperbacks. * Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories (Vintage, November 1) “There are 11 [stories] here—insightful, wistful, nuanced—sometimes heartbreaking and often funny. Each tale packs in social commentary, political asides, and keen observations that Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the 2022 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which seeks to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard.” Previous grantees include Rachel Aviv, Sarah M. Broom, and Chloé Read more >
We’re starting the month off strong, with new books from Katherine Dunn, N.K. Jemisin, Franny Choi, Dorthe Nors, and more. Not to mention the celebrity book component: Bono, Bob Dylan, and Matthew Perry (whose memoir we might be looking forward Read more >
There’s something about short stories that screams Halloween to me; I think it’s because they’re the perfect length to be read around a campfire, or with a flashlight in hand on a dark and stormy night. And because there is Read more >
News dropped over the weekend that Henry Cavill is handing over the role of Geralt to Liam Hemsworth (ugh) after season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix (expected to air next summer). The internet was none too happy about it (same), Read more >
If you, like me, spent the weekend squirming while watching Guillermo del Toro’s new anthology horror series, Cabinet of Curiosities, on Netflix, you might also have noticed that all the episodes but one start with a hat tip toward the Read more >
Listen. It’s Friday, and things aren’t great. But here’s something nice for you: a collection of frowning, eye-rolling, dead-panning literary types holding on to adorable animals. Like I said, it’s Friday. The real question is—how could you be so grumpy Read more >
In a ceremony on Thursday at the Austin Central Library, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of their ninth annual Kirkus Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen from the 1,436 books that received the Read more >
