New Memoirs 2020: True (and Evocative) Stories

New Memoirs 2020: True (and Evocative) Stories

[ad_1] No one really believed the fabulous Grace Jones when she sang “I’ll never write my memoirs” in 1981—or was surprised when the lyric became the title of her splashy 2015 memoir. After a boom in the ’90s spurred by authors like Elizabeth Wurtzel and Mary Karr, memoir has galloped on to become what many … Read more

Books to Read If You Love RuPaul’s Drag Race |

Books to Read If You Love RuPaul's Drag Race |

[ad_1] Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between… the library is officially (almost) open! Ru always knows how to serve (with 13 Emmys® to prove it), and we know historic season 12 will be no exception. The Queen of Drag took center stage at SNL last week, but now it’s time to find the next heir … Read more

What I’m Reading: Tara Schuster

What I'm Reading: Tara Schuster

[ad_1] Tara Schuster is vice president of Talent and Development at Comedy Central. She is the executive in charge of Lights Out with David Spade and was the executive in charge of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning Key & Peele and the Emmy Award–winning @Midnight. Tara is the author of Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, … Read more

5 Books About Hope That Will Inspire You |

5 Books About Hope That Will Inspire You |

[ad_1] My career as a neurosurgeon immerses me in the hardest parts of people’s lives. And yet, the human resilience, faith, and spirit never ceases to amaze me. My heart is continually moved at how individuals rise to the challenge when facing incredibly hard things. And so, my writing, although it often examines pain, loss, … Read more

Manuscript Tradition | Tor.com

Manuscript Tradition | Tor.com

[ad_1] Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich manuscript, which no one has been able to decipher for over eight hundred years. … Read more

9 Books Like Little Fires Everywhere |

9 Books Like Little Fires Everywhere |

[ad_1] If you’re anything like me, you let out an audible squeal the first time you saw the trailer for the limited series adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere, streaming on Hulu starting on March 18. Watching the trailer brought me right back to the emotional, totally engrossing, page-turning experience of reading Celeste Ng’s novel, and … Read more

Books Like Killers of the Flower Moon |

Books Like Killers of the Flower Moon |

[ad_1] When Killers of the Flower Moon arrived on bookshelves in 2017, it became an instant classic. A compulsively readable combination of a stranger-than-fiction true story that reads like bestselling thriller. The tale of a haunting series of murders set against the backdrop of the Osage Indian Nation and the 1920s oil boom sat at … Read more

SUPER FAKE LOVE SONG by David Yoon is coming!!

SUPER FAKE LOVE SONG by David Yoon is coming!!

[ad_1] CAN YOU TELL WE’RE EXCITED? We (and pretty much everyone else) fell MADLY in love with David Yoon’s incredible debut Frankly in Love last year and have been EAGERLY awaiting what David is writing next. Well, now we know! Get ready for Super Fake Love Song and your new obsession. Here are your hints: YA rom … Read more

The Touches | Tor.com

The Touches | Tor.com

[ad_1] Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications take over the outside world. But when the robots that take care of their necessities in the dirty outside world start glitching, Salipa must figure out what it means to … Read more

Biggest Books of the Decade: 2018

Biggest Books of the Decade: 2018

[ad_1] Yanny or Laurel?? Welcome to your 2018 blast from the past!   Biggest Books of 2018! A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the … Read more