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  1. dynamic duos
    Showtime Nabs the Rights to Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Forthcoming NovelGet ready for The President Is Missing: The TV Series.
    By Josef Adalian
  2. 20 Descriptions of Armie Hammer’s Voice in the Call Me By Your Name AudiobookThere’s such melody in this voice that the devil has to work overtime to get a new Nickelback song in the world, just so everything stays in balance.
    By Hunter Harris
  3. How Whitney Cummings Learned to Write Roast JokesOne comedian’s origin story.
    By Whitney Cummings
  4. mood board
    Nicole Krauss on 8 Things That Inspired Her New NovelFrom the secular spiritualism of Tel Aviv to her grandfather’s old photographs.
    By Anna Silman
  5. Eugene Hutz’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lao Tzu, and more.
    By Eugene Hutz
  7. books
    YouTuber Hank Green Is Writing a Novel About Internet FameHank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is out fall 2018.
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. Talking Comedy and Politics with Former Obama Speechwriter David Litt Not many people can claim that they landed their first post-college job as a 24-year-old speechwriter and joke writer for the President of […]
    By Megh Wright
  9. Trump’s ‘Sweet Valley High’ Spec Novel Notes, by Kit Lively Donna is a smart, beautiful, popular girl. Really, really big boobs, maybe? But they let her be head cheerleader anyway, because she can do […]
    By Brian Boone
  10. book bunnies
    So, Mike Pence’s Pet Rabbit Has a Book Deal NowCongrats, Marlon Bundo?
    By Claire Landsbaum
  11. self-love
    Danielle Steel’s Desk Is Just a Giant Stack of Her Own BooksIconic.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  12. man booker prize 2017
    George Saunders, Paul Auster Make the 2017 Man Booker Prize ShortlistCongrats!
    By Hunter Harris
  13. Remembering No Country for Old Men 10 Years LaterIt’s not Cormac McCarthy’s best book, and it’s not the Coen brothers’ best movie. But it might be the most successful collaboration in film history.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  14. fanfiction
    Alleged Author of Legendarily Bad Fanfic ‘My Immortal’ Steps ForwardThe infamous, epic, Harry Potter–based document has been a great online mystery for more than a decade.
    By Abraham Riesman
  15. Simone Rocha’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Emily Brontë, Charles Bukowski, and more.
    By Simone Rocha
  16. let us compare
    Hillary Clinton Compares Bernie Sanders to Something About Mary Hitchhiker“I felt like I was in a straitjacket,†Clinton says of debating Sanders.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  17. 9 Books You Need to Read This SeptemberNew from Jesmyn Ward, Eileen Myles, Salman Rushdie, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  18. What Game of Thrones Season 7 Tells Us About George R.R. Martin’s Next BookEuron Greyjoy will be a very different villain in The Winds of Winter.
    By Emmett Booth
  19. vulture lists
    18 Book-to-Film Adaptations Still to Come in 2017So much to look forward to.
    By Devon Ivie
  20. Yara Shahidi’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, and more.
    By Yara Shahidi
  21. where there’s a will
    Terry Pratchett’s Unfinished Work Crushed by Steamroller, Per His InstructionsPratchett’s hard drive was destroyed at the Great Dorset Steam Fair.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. book drama
    Author of YA Book Cut From Best-seller List Claims No Attempt to Game the SystemLani Sarem says, to her knowledge, there was no plan to boost Handbook for Mortals’ sales numbers.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. fall preview 2017
    What Vulture’s Critics Are Most Excited for This FallA new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, David Hockney at the Met, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  24. book drama
    A YA Book Got Pulled From the Best-Seller List for Allegedly Gaming the SystemHandbook for Mortals made a surprise appearance at No. 1 on the Young Adult Hardcover list, despite little evidence of sales.
    By Jackson McHenry
  25. shelf improvement
    The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to EveryoneDonna Tartt’s campus thriller is my personal Platonic ideal of what a novel should be.
    By Anna Silman
  26. Tom Perrotta’s 10 Favorite BooksFrom Edith Wharton to Roz Chast.
    By Tom Perrotta
  27. fall preview 2017
    44 New Books to Read This FallMuch-anticipated work from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Hillary Clinton, and more.
    By Vulture Editors
  28. fall preview 2017
    The Rise and Return of Jesmyn WardFrom small-town Mississippi to an out-of-the-blue National Book Award — then back to Mississippi to write her third novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing.
    By Boris Kachka
  29. Will Ferrell to Produce and Star in ‘The 100 Year-Old Man’ AdaptationWill Ferrell just lined up another movie role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrell has signed on to produce and star in an adaptation […]
    By Megh Wright
  30. game of thrones
    George R.R. Martin Says He’s Too Busy Writing to Watch Game of ThronesHe does not have an answer about when The Winds of Winter is coming.
    By Jackson McHenry
  31. Kathy Najimy’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more.
    By Kathy Najimy
  32. What Michiko Kakutani’s Departure From the Times Means for Books CoverageThe most powerful book critic gets a book deal.
    By Boris Kachka
  33. vulture lists
    Let’s Pitch Some Book Ideas to YoungerWe’ve got six killer pitches for Empirical Press.
    By Maggie Fremont
  34. Amber Tamblyn’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Amy Poehler and Wanda Coleman.
    By Amber Tamblyn
  35. Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart Is a KnockoutThe book is a fractured bildungsroman, a gallery of alternate selves.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  36. An Excerpt from ‘The Best American Emails,’ by Amanda MeadowsYou’re Invited to a Screening of ~HOCKEY JERKS~ To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: You’re Invited to a […]
    By Brian Boone
  37. young adult fiction
    The Toxic Drama on YA TwitterYoung-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
    By Kat Rosenfield
  38. 8 Books You Need to Read This AugustBy Claire Messud, Cree LeFavour, Frederick Crews, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  39. books
    100 Great Works of Dystopian FictionTales about a world gone wrong.
  40. Phoenix’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding Ernest Hemingway, Salvador Dalí, and Noam Chomsky.
    By Phoenix
  41. book deals
    Please Let James Comey’s Book About ‘Ethical Leadership’ Spill More Trump TeaWe’ll have to wait for Scaramucci’s inevitable book deal to get the real tea.
    By Hunter Harris
  42. books
    Author Jenny Zhang on China, Family, Class, and Sour HeartThe book tackles the complicated subject of growing up Chinese in America.
    By Frank Guan
  43. Dystopian Books Are Everywhere This YearThe present moment has created an ambient hunger for alternate realities.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  44. 18 Fiction Books to Read at the Beach, As Chosen by AuthorsThe best beach-worthy reads, chosen by writers.
    By Miles Klee
  45. sick burns
    The All-Time Best Burns of New York Times Book Reviewer Michiko KakutaniThe legendary New York Times book critic made a lot of enemies during her 38-year tenure.
    By Anna Silman
  46. books
    Legendary New York Times Book Critic Michiko Kakutani Is Stepping DownAt the same time as Kakutani’s depature, Parul Sehgal has been named book critic.
    By Jackson McHenry
  47. man booker prize
    2017 Man Booker Prize Long List: Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Arundhati RoyColson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, and more made the cut.
    By Dee Lockett
  48. books
    Hillary Clinton Will Open Up About the 2016 Election in Her Book What HappenedSimon & Schuster will publish the book on September 12.
    By Jackson McHenry
  49. books
    Author Danzy Senna on Finding Inspiration After Leaving BrooklynThe New People writer moved to California because New York felt like “a book party that never ended.†She doesn’t mean that in a good way.
    By Joy Press
  50. Zac Posen’s 10 Favorite BooksIncluding ones by Oscar Wilde, John Cheever, and Martha Stewart.
    By Zac Posen
  51. book review
    In Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, the Narrator Strives to MatterThe first novel by the 26-year-old Irish writer wears its influences on its sleeve.
    By Christian Lorentzen
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