Featuring the good news and the bad news from the week in books, the big titles everyone is talking about, the best reviewed books, adaptation news, and more… From Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee and Oliver the Well Dressed Dog.

Discussed in this week’s episode:

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater facing permanent closure

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Sex, lies, and saxophones in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham

 A first look at the upcoming miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand

The NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award finalists and the Caine Prize for African Writing shortlist

The unimpeachable brilliance of 27 Dresses and Chocolat

The Virtual Book Channel

The Virtual Book Channel

Launched during the coronavirus pandemic as virtual literary communities began emerging in vital and unexpected ways, The Virtual Book Channel seeks to provide the best possible platforms for writers to reach their readers. The VBC (aka “The Veeb”) is a curated channel that archives live-streamed programming through partnerships with independent bookstores, literary festivals, authors' WFH spaces, and more.