According to Screen Daily, there’s a new, as-yet untitled biopic in the works about your very favorite surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington, whom Dorothy recently brought back into our lives. It will be based not on Carrington’s work but on Read more >
Don’t buy these books. I know! Usually we’re all “bUy aLL tHe BoOks”! Especially when they’re authentic books, as these books are. Laura Miller tweeted some stern words about these books-by-the-foot, which are sold for decoration and/or tricking people into Read more >
The most best remarks at the 27th-annual Authors Guild benefit technically came from someone who wasn’t there: the seven-year-old who wrote Mary Pope Osborne her first piece of fan mail. Osborne recounted to the audience of authors, donors, and other Read more >
Calling the highly specific group of writers who have $150 to burn and would like to care for an organic farm in upstate New York: there’s a contest just for you! Here are some things about it: –It’s the most Read more >
Rainn Wilson—the endearingly oddball funnyman whose film and TV credits include The Office, The Rocker, The Meg, and dozens of other things I haven’t actually seen but would probably watch on a plane—is narrating a new audiobook of Norton Juster’s classic children’s Read more >
In January of 2018, Michael Wolff’s Trump exposé Fire and Fury was published to major uproar—and massive sales. So, like any good creator of a blockbuster hit, he set about to write a sequel. Today, Axios reported that Siege: Trump Under Fire, Fire and Fury.">Read more >
There are inherent risks in asking a debut novelist to recap his experience at a new literary festival taking place in his hometown. First, he might be exhausted and hungover. (Fact check: he is.) Second, as a former Minnesotan and Read more >
It’s always a good day when a new Taffy Brodesser-Akner enters the world. I will read anything Brodesser-Akner—master profiler and debut novelist(!)—writes, but her piece in the New York Times today, “Stuff Your ‘Rules,” is especially My Jam. I love The Rules is a gift we don't deserve.">Read more >
On March 14th and 15th, Princeton University’s Brazil LAB opened its doors to academics and activists from Brazil and the United States for the symposium “Black Feminisms Across the Americas: A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco.” Over 300 people Read more >
Doris Day, the actress, singer and animal rights activist (who didn’t need an Oscar to ensure her greatness) died Sunday at 97. Day was one of the last larger-than-life links to the “Golden Age” of Hollywood filmmaking, perhaps best known Read more >
According to Publishers Marketplace, Issa Rae has optioned Tayari Jones’s 2011 novel Silver Sparrow, which is “about the young daughter of a bigamist who, flouting the unwritten rule against making contact with her half-sister, decides to befriend her, setting into motion Silver Sparrow has been optioned by Issa Rae!">Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
David Foster Wallace’s 2006 profile of Roger Federer is a canonical piece of sportswriting, and will likely remain so (though maybe with an asterisk) despite Jeremy Gordon’s recent observation in The Outline that DFW seems to have conjured Roger Federer’s Read more >
Graywolf Press is celebrating their 45th anniversary tomorrow with a literary soirée in New York City—congratulations, you guys. If you’re not familiar with this fantastic independent press, or you’d like to get to know it a little better, here are Read more >
Fans have been frustrated with George R. R. Martin’s slow writing pace for years. After publishing the first three novels in his A Song of Ice and Fire series at a steady clip, one book every two years, he began Game of Thrones—he's just keeping it from you.">Read more >
Earlier this year, the world lost a little-known light. Rachel Ingalls was the author of many delightfully gut-punching novels. Despite winning the Authors’ Club First Novel in 1970 for her debut Theft (even though it was intended for British writers!), Read more >
Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish a memoir by Chelsea Manning in winter 2020, the publisher announced today. “Ms. Manning has made headlines around the world, but they couldn’t possibly capture the complexity of her experiences,” Colin Dickerman, FSG’s vice Read more >
The publication of a listicle entitled “The 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945” in the Sunday Times over the weekend left the Irish crime fiction community justifiably aghast, and author Brian McGilloway succinctly summed up why: Can’t decide Sunday Times snubs 75 years of Irish crime fiction">Read more >
While taking a quick break from my serious weekend regimen of reading serious books about serious things I happened to accidentally graze my bespoke vellum bookmark across my phone and it opened Twitter (j/k, I only ever read Tweets now). Read more >
Hey, riders of public transit, don’t do this: on Friday, D.C.-based writer Natasha Tynes tweeted a photo of a Metro employee eating with the message, “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope Read more >
