- 5/20/13 /
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Stephen King Skipping E-book on New Novel
Joyland, available only in real life.
Books
- 5/20/13 /
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Tracing the Career of Tween-Lit Doyenne Judy Blume
After 44 years, her first feature-film adaptation, Tiger Eyes, arrives next week.
- 5/16/13 /
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Schulz on Margalit Fox’s Linguistic Detective Story, The Riddle of the Labyrinth
It's about, among other things, history, mythology, ancient civilizations, linguistics, puzzles, code-breaking, Homer, Arthur Conan Doyle, and brainy female academics.
- 5/16/13 /
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The Divergent–Fault in Our Stars Fake Incest Problem
Shailene Woodley's brother from Divergent will play her boyfriend in The Fault in Our Stars. This is weird.
- 5/6/13 /
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Schulz: Why I Despise The Great Gatsby
It is the only book I have read five times despite failing to derive almost any pleasure at all from the experience.
- 5/4/13 /
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Harper Lee Sues Over To Kill a Mockingbird Copyright
The 87-year-old author claims that her literary agent's son-in-law took advantage of her bad hearing.
- 5/3/13 /
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Watch Jim Gaffigan and Julie Klausner Taste-Test Chocolate-Covered Kale and Other Healthy Junk Food
Nary a Hot Pocket in sight.
- 5/2/13 /
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Owen King and Joe Hill on Their New Novels, Sibling Rivalry, and Stephen King’s Shadow
Hill: "I’ve read The Dead Zone, like, twenty times."
- 4/29/13 /
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Steven Soderbergh Is Writing a Novella on Twitter
It's called Glue.
- 4/29/13 /
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The Beastie Boys Have a Memoir Coming
A form-challenging, "multidimensional experience."
- 4/29/13 /
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The Nine Circles of Dan Brown: Who Will Be Most Inconvenienced by the Release of Inferno?
On May 14, dark prince of conspiracy-based historical thrillery will release his latest, whose first printing of 4 million copies all but guarantees that it’ll be a giant hit—and that it will create lots of extra work for everybody.
- 4/24/13 /
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Sloane Crosley Sells Her First Novel
Congrats.
- 4/22/13 /
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Salman Rushdie Turns Screenwriter for Midnight’s Children
“This is a very important book for me, it’s a book that actually gave me the confidence that I could be the writer I had hoped I could be.”
- 4/22/13 /
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At Home With Claire Messud and James Wood, the First Couple of American Fiction
On the eve of the publication of Messud's new book, she can’t shake the feeling she’s still an outsider.
- 4/20/13 /
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10 Pop Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This Week
ICYMI, as the children say.
- 4/18/13 /
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And the Third Book in the Divergent Trilogy Is Called …
It rhymes.
- 4/17/13 /
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Which YA Series Is Your Next Hunger Games–Level Obsession?
They're all being made into movies or TV shows, so you're gonna want to get started now.
- 4/15/13 /
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The Orphan Master’s Son Wins Pulitzer for Fiction
Congrats.
- 4/12/13 /
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The Office’s B.J. Novak Will Be an Author Soon
"The closest analogy for me is Woody Allen," his agent says.
- 4/8/13 /
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Todd Field to Direct Beautiful Ruins Adaptation
Great!
- 4/5/13 /
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Jason Segel Is Writing a YA Trilogy
Just as long as it's not about a dystopian future.
- 3/29/13 /
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TV Review: Philip Roth: Unmasked Skims The Surface
Tonight on PBS, the latest entry in the long-running American Masters series.
- 3/27/13 /
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Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Strout on Her New Novel, The Burgess Boys
It's the author's first book since 2008's Olive Kitteridge.
- 3/25/13 /
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Clarissa Explains It All Returning in Book Form
About a 23-year-old Clarissa, who is a journalist.
- 3/22/13 /
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Chinua Achebe Has Died
He was 82.