• The Week in Books LIVE:
    Pulitzers, Lovecraft, and Guns N’ Roses vs. Bill Clinton

    With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

    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, of course, the terrifyingly amusing badinage of Book Marks editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee.

    Discussed in the episode:

    Robert Pattinson and the announcement of a new Twilight novel

    The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes

    When James Baldwin wrote about the Atlanta Child Murders

    Racist H. P. Lovecraft and the first trailer for Jordan Peele’s HBO adaptation of Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country

    James Patterson writing a children’s book with Guns N’ Roses

     

     


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