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An Oral History of The Baby-Sitters Club Movie

 From first kisses to first periods to narrowly avoided perms, inside the making of a ’90s sleepover classic. By Jessica Goldstein
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Sasha Geffen’s Glitter Up the Dark Is an Essential Companion to the Year’s Music

 You’ll devour Glitter Up the Dark with eyes wide and mind racing, drawing connections to whatever music you listen to. By Justin Curto
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I Tried to Be Twitter-Famous

 Despite how much I failed, I was convinced I needed to be if I ever wanted to make my mark on the literary world. By Shayla Lawson
  1. publishing
    Dana Canedy to Be First Black Publisher of Simon & SchusterAnd she’s the third woman to hold the position.
    By Zoe Haylock
  2. backstories
    The Baby-Sitters Club Is Back in BusinessHow the Netflix show adapted a ’90s hallmark for zoomers (and their parents).
    By Jessica Goldstein
  3. kristy's great idea
    An Oral History of The Baby-Sitters Club MovieFrom first kisses to first periods to narrowly avoided perms, inside the making of a ’90s sleepover classic.
    By Jessica Goldstein
  4. vulture recommends
    Sasha Geffen’s Glitter Up the Dark Is an Essential Companion to the Year’s MusicYou’ll devour Glitter Up the Dark with eyes wide and mind racing, drawing connections to whatever music you listen to.
    By Justin Curto
  5. book excerpt
    How the 2,000-Year-Old Man Was BornThe story of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner’s popular sketch involves a tape recorder, Cary Grant, and Queen Elizabeth.
    By Carl Reiner
  7. gavel! gavel!
    Mary Trump’s Tell-All of the Summer Temporarily Blocked by JudgeShe may have violated a confidentiality agreement about her uncle.
    By Devon Ivie
  8. books
    Please Address Patrick Stewart’s New Memoir As SirThe actor is finally writing his life stories.
    By Devon Ivie
  9. book excerpt
    I Tried to Be Twitter-FamousDespite how much I failed, I was convinced I needed to be if I ever wanted to make my mark on the literary world.
    By Shayla Lawson
  10. adaptations
    HBO Wins Brit Bennett’s Best-Selling Novel The Vanishing Half at AuctionThe network reportedly plans to adapt the book into a limited series.
    By Halle Kiefer
  11. conversations with friends
    Hulu Picks Up Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends SeriesIt will be helmed by Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson.
    By Rebecca Alter
  14. my book of poetry is dropping
    Future Best-selling Author Halsey to Release Poetry CollectionThe poems will tackle sexuality, relationships, mental illness, and more.
    By Zoe Haylock
  15. book review
    After Months Spent Inside, The Great Indoors Is Uncannily RelevantFrom microbes to building design, Emily Anthes’s new book explores the science of indoor living.
    By Molly Young
  16. rocket men
    Donald Trump Just Wants Elton John to Like HimHe allegedly wanted to impress the singer with a gift to Kim Jong-un.
    By Devon Ivie
  17. read like the wind
    We Cast a Shadow and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadRecommended if you like: Parasite, doing wicked things despite your better nature.
    By Molly Young
  18. the industry
    Hachette U.K. Stands by J.K. Rowling After Anti-Trans CommentsThe group plans to publish Rowling’s new children’s book The Ickabog.
    By Justin Curto
  19. books
    Kazuo Ishiguro Is Back to Make You Weep With Klara and the SunIt’s the author’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.
    By Zoe Haylock
  20. backstories
    The National Book Critics Circle Has ImplodedMore than half of the board has resigned in a series of events one member described as “bizarre and bloody in an end-of-a-Tarantino-movie way.”
    By Lila Shapiro
  21. lgbtq
    Emma Watson and Rupert Grint Say Expelliarmus to J.K. Rowling’s TransphobiaThe Harry Potter stars have condemned her comments.
    By Devon Ivie
  22. read the room
    Kristen Bell’s Children’s Book Perilously Close to Declaring Purple Lives MatterTitled The World Needs More Purple People.
    By Rebecca Alter
  23. a long talk
    ‘If You Can Perform Whiteness, Then What Does It Mean to Be White?’Brit Bennett on her propulsive new novel, The Vanishing Half, set in a mythical town solely inhabited by light-skinned black people.
    By Lila Shapiro
  26. best of 2020
    The Best Books of the Year (So Far)During a difficult year, fiction is rising to contemporary challenges and demands.
    By Hillary Kelly
  27. books
    Zadie Smith to Release New Essay Collection About Life During LockdownIntimations, out July 28, was written in the “early months” of the pandemic.
    By Zoe Haylock
  28. jk rowling
    Warner Bros. Responds To J.K. Rowling’s Shocking Commitment to Being Transphobic“The events in the last several weeks have firmed our resolve as a company to confront difficult societal issues.”
    By Chris Murphy
  29. we regret to inform you
    J.K. Rowling Explains Her Anti-Trans Comments With More Anti-Trans CommentsShe wrote a 3,670-word blog post. Like half her books, it’s simply too long.
    By Justin Curto
  30. books
    Harper Acquires New Novel From Deadspin Founder Will LeitchLucky will be Leitch’s fifth book.
    By Zoe Haylock
  31. trans rights
    Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Tweets“Just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  32. the industry
    Over 1,000 Publishing Workers Strike to Protest Industry RacismThey’re tweeting under the hashtags #PubWorkers4BlackLives and #PubWorkers4Justice.
    By Justin Curto
  33. the industry
    Roxane Gay and Other Authors Reveal Salary Disparities With #PublishingPaidMeUrban fantasy novelist L.L. McKinney started the call to action.
    By Devon Ivie
  34. close reads
    What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?It is unclear whether each book supplies a portion of the holistic racial puzzle or are intended as revelatory islands in and of themselves.
    By Lauren Michele Jackson
  35. the longest lives
    What I’ve Learned So FarLessons from artists and thinkers.
    As told to Jackson McHenry, Helen Shaw, and Amelia Schonbek
  38. excerpt
    ‘Would You Be My Kiss‑in Partner?’During a protest at Harvard, Josh Oppenheimer’s kiss shook me into the awareness that I was not quite a man.
    By Meredith Talusan
  39. accio
    J.K. Rowling Fact-Checks Some ‘Utter Nonsense’ About Harry Potter’s Origins“I was thinking of putting a section on my website about all the alleged inspirations and birthplaces of Potter.”
    By Devon Ivie
  40. vulture recommends
    Want Is the Summer Book I Couldn’t Put DownIt’s a defining novel of our age of left-behind families.
    By Hillary Kelly
  41. summer 2020
    29 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerThey will shake you out of your stasis.
    By Hillary Kelly
  42. fashion du jour
    9 Upsetting Anna Wintour Stories in André Leon Talley’s Memoir“Simple human kindness. No, she is not capable.”
    By Devon Ivie
  43. encounter
    The Psychic Will (Virtually) See You NowLaura Day joins the growing ranks of healers delivering their services via teleconferencing.
    By Lila Shapiro
  44. encounter
    André Leon Talley Would Still Take Anna Wintour’s CallFrom his living room in White Plains, the fashion writer on his new memoir and old friends.
    By E. Alex Jung
  45. profile
    In Case of Emergency, Read Olivia LaingFrom The Lonely City to Funny Weather, the author writes to find a path forward through pain.
    By Hillary Kelly
  46. book review
    What’s the Deal With Eels?A new book examines what we know about the mysterious creature, and a lot more that we do not.
    By Molly Young
  47. great adaptations
    AMC Is Sucking the Rights From Anne Rice’s Vampire NovelsEverything in The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
    By Devon Ivie
  50. books
    Former Drama Teacher Chasten Buttigieg to Release MemoirI Have Something to Tell You comes out on September 1.
    By Justin Curto
  51. books
    Simon & Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Reidy Dies at 71“As a publisher and a leader, Carolyn pushed us to stretch to do just that little bit more; to do our best and then some for our authors.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  52. roll clip!
    Netflix Announces Elena Ferrante Adaptation Before We Can Even Read the BookThere’s already a teaser.
    By Devon Ivie
  53. spoiler city
    What to Expect in Outlander Season 6, According to Diana Gabaldon’s BooksIt’s getting tougher to predict exactly what’s coming for Claire, Jamie, and Fraser’s Ridge, but one thing’s for sure: There will be tears.
    By Maggie Fremont
  54. read like the wind
    A Children’s Bible and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My HeadThere are two types of sad people in the world — the books here are for both of them.
    By Molly Young
  55. story time
    Let Daniel Radcliffe Read the First Chapter of Harry Potter to YouWe demand a celebrity reading of “My Immortal” next.
    By Rebecca Alter
  56. awards
    Colson Whitehead Wins Second Pulitzer Prize, A Strange Loop Wins for DramaPlus, New York’s own Justin Davidson is a finalist in criticism.
    By Justin Curto
  57. sexy vampires
    A New Twilight Book Is Coming to Feast on Your NostalgiaThis time, Edward tells the story.
    By Devon Ivie
  58. keeping up with the royals
    Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Reportedly Agree to Tell-All BiographyWhat royal rules?
    By Devon Ivie
  59. a long talk
    Not So Normal AnymorePaul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones are the heart of Normal People’s sexy, angsty romance. And now they’re famous.
    By Rachel Handler
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