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  1. Help Us Pick This Summer’s Must-Read BookVulture and the NYC Mayor’s Office present the 2018 One Book, One New York nominees.
    By Jackson McHenry
  2. books
    The Weirdest Lines From Sean Penn’s Wannabe-Gonzo Novel“Tweet me, bitch. I dare you.â€
    By Hunter Harris
  3. Nigella Lawson’s 10 Favorite BooksIt’s not all food.
    By Nigella Lawson
  4. bunnies!
    Twist! Mike Pence’s Daughter Loves John Oliver’s Gay Rabbit BookBut what does daddy think?
    By Devon Ivie
  5. books
    Sarah Jessica Parker Is a Book Person NowThis year’s hottest trend is books.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  7. one grand books
    Steven Pinker’s 10 Favorite BooksScience stuff!
    By Steven Pinker
  8. surprise endings
    Secret Bill Cunningham Memoir to Be Published This SeptemberThe manuscript for Fashion Climber was discovered among possessions the photographer left behind.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  9. How One Legendary TV Writer Thinks We Can Fix Workplace Harassment“Everyone should look at it and go ‘Ew!’â€
    By Katla McGlynn
  10. literary endeavors
    You Crazy Kids Literally Bought All of John Oliver’s Gay Rabbit Children’s BooksAnother printing will be coming soon.
    By Devon Ivie
  11. Odysseus Reviews the New Translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ by Michael Maiello “Tell me about a complicated man,†begins Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, which is the story of me, Odysseus. I read this […]
    By Brian Boone
  12. Can Leslie Jamison Top The Empathy Exams With Her Mega-Memoir of Addiction?The Recovering is a 534-page palimpsest of Jamison’s battle with alcoholism that doesn’t adhere to the typical recovery narrative structure.
    By Ruth Shalit Barrett
  13. books
    I Am So Jealous of Tavi Gevinson’s Custom Secret History JacketInspired by the cult novel by Donna Tartt.
    By Anna Silman
  14. vulture book club
    A Wrinkle in Time Book Club: Justice for Aunt Beast!Vulture is ready to discuss Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, the missing Dr. Alex Murry, and Meg’s earnest journey to self-acceptance.
    By E. Alex Jung and Hunter Harris
  15. spring preview
    10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SpringNew works from Roxane Gay, David Sedaris, Rachel Kushner, Curtis Sittenfeld, and more.
    By Maris Kreizman
  16. publishing
    Younger Made Up a Book Pitch Good Enough to Get Published in Real LifeSimon & Schuster is publishing Marriage Vacation in June.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. one grand books
    Roxane Gay’s 10 Favorite BooksEdith Wharton, Samantha Irby, Alice Walker, and more.
    By Roxane Gay
  18. books
    Alan Hollinghurst’s New, Deviously Anti-Sensationalist Gay-Generation-Gap NovelThe way life opens up to one character in a way that it never could for his father is the novel’s real subject.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  19. The Wobbly and Woozy A Wrinkle in Time Only Works When It’s GroundedLet’s joyously welcome Ava DuVernay back to Earth.
    By David Edelstein
  20. George Saunders’s 10 Favorite BooksToni Morrison, Philip Glass, and more.
    By George Saunders
  21. 6 Books You Should Read This MarchBy Uzodinma Iweala, Mallory Ortberg, Alan Hollinghurst, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  22. Join Us in the Fifth Dimension for Our A Wrinkle in Time Book ClubLet’s go on a journey.
    By Hunter Harris and E. Alex Jung
  23. Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite BooksRoxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
    By Phoebe Robinson
  24. Guy Branum’s Memoir ‘My Life as a Goddess’ Is Out in JulyStandup and Talk Show the Game Show host Guy Branum has written a memoir. Titled My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture, […]
    By Megh Wright
  25. Alyssa Cole on Why Her Romance Novels Are Always PoliticalNow, she’s breaking into rom-com territory with a new series, Reluctant Royals, which kicks off with A Princess in Theory.
    By Jaime Green
  26. My Friend Michelle McNamara, the Crime Writer Gone in the DarkRemembering the author, and late wife of comedian Patton Oswalt, on the occasion of the release of her book on her pursuit of the Golden State Killer.
    By Kera Bolonik
  27. hot releases
    Michelle Obama Releasing ‘Deeply Personal’ Memoir This FallAnd she’s going on a book tour!
    By Devon Ivie
  28. vulture lists
    10 Book-to-Film Adaptations Happening in 2018From the kinky to the funny.
    By Devon Ivie
  29. Watch the Book Trailer for Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and BonePlus, Adeyemi on the pressures of writing one of the most anticipated books of the year, and why she’s bored by Lord of the Rings.
    By Lila Shapiro
  30. 9 Ways Annihilation the Movie Differs from Annihilation the BookAlex Garland added new creatures, new tech, and more to his interpretation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel.
    By Ashley Fetters
  31. 8 New Photography Books to Check OutThe best just-released and forthcoming new photo collections.
    By Rebecca Bengal
  32. sexual harassment
    Lemony Snicket Accused of Making Lewd Comments About Female AuthorsFemale authors have shared their stories of “uncomfortable†encounters with the author, whose real name is Daniel Handler.
    By Dee Lockett
  33. James Ivory’s 10 Favorite BooksProust, Tolstoy, and more.
    By James Ivory
  34. ‘In Living Color’ Gets Its Own History Book with ‘Homey Don’t Play That’When In Living Color premiered on Fox in 1990, the sketch series represented the beginning of a wave of Black network programming unlike any […]
    By Harry Waksberg
  35. lawsuits
    Milo Yiannopoulos Drops Publisher Lawsuit, But We’ll Always Have Those NotesHe had sued for $10 million over the canceled release of his memoir.
    By Dee Lockett
  36. books
    In His First Crime Novel, David Mamet Revives a Vanished Version of His HometownThe author discusses his latest project, his love of James Cain, and his desire to eat dinner with Pancho Barnes.
    By Sarah Weinman
  37. Can You Revise a Book to Make It More Woke?When a YA novel was criticized for racism prior to publication, the author attempted something radical — she pushed its release date and rewrote it.
    By Lila Shapiro
  38. Neneh Cherry’s 10 Favorite BooksNina Simone, James Baldwin, and more.
    By Neneh Cherry
  39. Kat Dennings to Star in an ABC Comedy Pilot Based on ‘How May We Hate You?’A TV adaptation of Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe’s book How May We Hate You? is getting a second chance on another network. According to […]
    By Megh Wright
  40. An Excerpt from ‘Hey, U Up? (For a Serious Relationship): How to Turn Your […]How to Pick the Perfect Blood Diamond for Your Engagement Ring So, the two of you are ready to make a lifelong commitment, and you’ve […]
    By Brian Boone
  41. sexual harassment
    Thirteen Reasons Why Author Jay Asher Accused of Sexual HarassmentHe has been banned from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
    By Dee Lockett
  42. Talking ‘Dead People Suck’ with Laurie KilmartinWhen faced with the loss of her father, comedian Laurie Kilmartin was confronted with an additional challenge: how to make a topic as […]
    By Isaac Kozell
  43. An Oral History of The Wire’s Unforgettable 5-Minute ‘F*ck’ Scene“I think it’s an example of one of the best displays of my acting in the whole series.â€
    By Jonathan Abrams
  44. biopicked
    Can Gucci Mane Star in His Own Biopic, Please?Paramount and Imagine entertainment are bringing his autobiography to the big screen.
    By Hunter Harris
  45. Richard Pryor’s Widow on His Diaries and His ‘Bisexual Experiences’“He was very open about his sexuality and never put a label on it.â€
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. 7 New Books You Need to Read This FebruaryZadie Smith, Lisa Halliday, Sigrid Nunez, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  47. Tim Gunn’s 10 Favorite BooksFrom Russian tsars to Alice in Wonderland.
    By Tim Gunn
  48. Andy Kaufman Gets Illustrated in ‘Is This Guy for Real?’Around 2010, I worked at a coffee shop for a man who believed Andy Kaufman was still alive. It had been a generation since Kaufman’s apparent […]
    By Harry Waksberg
  49. vulture guides
    These Are the Drugs Influencing Pop Culture NowFrom Xanax to Adderall, there’s a medicine cabinet’s worth of intoxicants that are influencing, inspiring, and, in some cases, destroying artists.
    By Lauren Levy
  50. adaptations
    How Electric Dreams Compares to Philip K. Dick’s Short StoriesA look at what changed and what was left intact in Amazon’s Electric Dreams anthology series.
    By Tobias Carroll
  51. An Excerpt from ‘TITLE 13,’ by Michael A. Ferro Thirty-seven pages of highly classified TITLE 13 material were reported missing at the Chicago Regional Census Center on Wednesday […]
    By Brian Boone
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