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  1. books
    See the Beautiful Book Jacket for Jami Attenberg’s Saint MazieIt’s pretty.
    By Vulture Editors
  2. Finding Business Lessons in the World of ImprovIn his book Funny Business, Bill Connolly explores the connection between business and comedy. With interviews from Boston’s powerhouse standup […]
    By Stephanie Simon
  3. comics
    Alison Bechdel Wins MacArthur Genius GrantThe cartoonist will spend her $650,000 grant on “really boring stuff.â€
    By Nate Jones
  4. books
    See Neil Patrick Harris’s Very Charming Book TrailerHis book’s called Choose Your Own Autobiography.
    By Nate Jones
  5. movies
    Cara Delevingne Will Star in the Latest John Green AdaptationYes, that Cara Delevingne.
    By Nate Jones
  7. book excerpt
    My Dad Was James Brown. I Saw Him Beat My Mom.An excerpt from Yamma Brown’s memoir Cold Sweat.
    By Yamma Brown
  8. vulture essays
    Why Seth Rogen Is More Serious Than Woody AllenCultural essays about the death of adulthood are often Trojan horses for a different complaint: the death of seriousness.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  9. vulture book club
    9 Books to Read If You Miss Your Favorite TV ComedyThe waiting is the hardest part.
    By Ester Bloom
  10. man booker prize
    Joshua Ferris on the Man Booker Shortlist and ‘Bad Fart’ ReviewsFerris is one of two Americans short-listed this year.
    By Boris Kachka
  11. dc comics
    13 Utterly Absurd Panels From the 1940s Captain Marvel ComicsPut these in the Shazam movie, dammit.
    By Charlotte Geater
  12. dc comics
    13 Utterly Absurd Panels From the 1940s Captain Marvel ComicsPut these in the Shazam movie, dammit.
    By Charlotte Geater
  13. books
    Catching Up With Kids’-Book Legend Judith ViorstAt 83, the Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day author is in the middle of her biggest year yet.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  14. behind the scenes
    See a Set of Vintage Hollywood Contact SheetsThe rejects are part of the greatness.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  15. books
    How Has SNL Changed in the Last 10 Years?“Do you know how many cast members said to me, ‘I can’t drink that much, I can’t smoke that much.’â€
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. book excerpt
    How Kristen Wiig’s Emotional Saturday Night Live Farewell HappenedAn excerpt from the upcoming expanded edition of the oral history Live From New York.
    By James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
  17. books
    Get a Signed Copy of George R.R. Martin’s LatestThe World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  18. vulture recommends
    8 Books You Need to Read This SeptemberRead them all.
    By Boris Kachka
  19. books
    Haruki Murakami Is Releasing a New BookCalled The Strange Library.
    By Anna Silman
  20. lost art
    Lost Chapter of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Released“Crazy old Wonka!â€
    By E. Alex Jung
  21. children’s books
    Bruce Springsteen Is Writing a Children’s BookFor kids and dads!
    By Anna Silman
  22. fall preview 2014
    Ben Lerner on 10:04, His Second Hall-of-Mirrors Semi-Memoir“It’s neither fiction nor nonfiction, but a flickering between them.â€
    By Boris Kachka
  23. fall preview 2014
    57 Books to Read This FallFrom Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Ben Lerner, and more.
    By Alex Carp
  24. books
    New York Times Reporter Penning Robin Williams BiographyDave Itzkoff has written about Williams a number of times over the years.
    By Anna Silman
  25. fall preview 2014
    David Mitchell on His New Book The Bone Clocks“An epic battle between good and evil.â€
    By Kathryn Schulz
  26. fall preview 2014
    The Fall Entertainment Generator: 331 Things to Watch, Hear and Do Looking for something adventurous that will make you laugh? A blockbuster to make you cry?
    By Vulture Editors
  27. vulture recommends
    Last-Chance Beach Reads: 12 Books for the Final Days of SummerBonus: These engrossing books will double as a shield against any sand kicked in your face. 
    By Jen Doll
  28. peak dystopia
    We’ve Reached Peak Dystopia, But Is It Possible to Imagine Utopia Anymore?It’s possible to forget that Utopia came first, and dystopia was essentially its johnny-come-lately spinoff.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  29. chat room
    Margaret Atwood on MaddAddam, the HBO Adaptation, and Genetic EngineeringThe Canadian writer’s latest novel is newly out in paperback.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  30. Read Some New Excerpts from the Updated ‘Live from New York’ BookThe new and extended version of Tom Shales and James Miller’s SNL oral history book Live from New York isn’t out until September 9th, but in […]
    By Megh Wright
  31. books
    J.K. Rowling Releases New Story About the ‘Singing Sorceress’The little-known Celestina Warbeck.
    By Anna Silman
  32. books
    xkcd Creator Imagines NYC in 1 Million YearsWhat would happen if you went back in time, starting in Times Square, 1,000 years?
    By Randall Munroe
  33. reading
    Here’s What Happens in the Other Three Giver BooksDid you know there are four?
    By E. Alex Jung
  34. speculation
    Here’s the Latest From David Fincher on the Gone Girl Movie EndingDavid Fincher says they didn’t change it, but also they did. It’s tricky.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  35. movies
    Talking to Lois Lowry About the Movie Version of The Giver“I think the movie is very good,†Lowry says, which counts as pretty serious praise considering it was so long stuck in ­development hell.
    By Alexis Swerdloff
  36. primers
    A True Detective Fan’s Guide to Thomas LigottiA primer to the Southern Gothic writer whose work inspired Nic Pizzolatto on the HBO series.
    By Jeff VanderMeer
  37. endings
    GoT Readers Have Already Predicted the Ending“At least one or two readers†have put it together.
    By Anna Silman
  38. Air Bud: Glory Days, by Joe VeixDo go check out PBQ Vol. 2. Edited by our friend John Howell Harris (with cover and interstitial art by Daniel Spenser) the second in the PBQ […]
    By Brian Boone
  39. influences
    Lev Grossman Explains His Cultural InfluencesOn the occasion of the final book’s release.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  40. vulture recommends
    8 Books You Need to Read This AugustRoxane Gay, Amy Bloom, and more.
    By Boris Kachka
  41. vulture recommends
    6 Classic le Carré Novels to Read After A Most Wanted ManFor the new recruits. 
    By Ruth Baron
  42. party chats
    George R.R. Martin to Prioritize Book Over ShowGo, GRRM!
    By Kara Warner
  43. The ‘It’s Always Sunny’ Gang Is Writing a Self-Help BookThe life experts of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are writing a book. A pre-order page recently showed up on Amazon for The 7 Secrets of […]
    By Megh Wright
  44. thesaurus abuse
    The 50 Worst Synonyms in Fifty Shades of GreyThesaurus.com is E.L. James’s dominant.
    By Patti Greco
  45. books
    The Feminist Horror Author You Need to Read ImmediatelyThe best horror writer of the 20th century was a British woman you’ve probably never heard of.
    By Brian McGreevy
  46. awards
    Booker Prize Longlist Announced; No GoldfinchSeveral other Americans, though.
    By Gilbert Cruz
  47. the vulture transcript
    Bronson Pinchot Discusses All Things AudiobooksIn an email exchange with New York Times best-selling author Jeff VanderMeer.
    By Jeff VanderMeer
  48. Patton Oswalt Has Written a Book About His Addiction to MoviesPatton Oswalt has a second book in the works. Recently, Amazon posted the pre-order page for his upcoming book titled Silver Screen Fiend: […]
    By Megh Wright
  49. tv
    The Strain TV Series Will Be Very Different From the BooksAccording to Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse.
    By Anna Silman
  50. Holden Caulfield Applies for an HR Position, by Dan MoreyGreg Roman Integrated Software 48 Detmire Road White Plains, NY 10601 Dear Mr. Roman, I’m writing to apply for the goddam HR Manager position […]
    By Brian Boone
  51. Billy Eichner Is Writing His First BookBilly on the Street host Billy Eichner is getting into the literary world. THR reports that Eichner has signed a deal to write his first […]
    By Bradford Evans
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