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  1. biographies
    Richard Cohen to Pen a Nora Ephron BiographyThe Washington Post columnist was the first speaker at Ephron’s funeral.
    By Lindsey Weber
  2. deep reads
    What Khaleesi Could Learn From George R.R. Martin’s New Dragon-Heavy StoryThe Princess and the Queen is a prequel set during the Targaryen Civil War, a.k.a. the Dance of the Dragons.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  3. news
    Three New J.D. Salinger Stories Leaked Online“Paula,†“Birthday Boy,†and “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls.â€
    By Gilbert Cruz
  4. Cary Elwes Is Writing a Memoir About ‘The Princess Bride’Cary Elwes, who starred as Westley in the classic 1987 comedy The Princess Bride, is writing a memoir about the film. The Associated […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  5. compare and contrast
    What Changed in the Catching Fire Movie, and How Much It MatteredFor the close readers.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  7. books
    A Tale of Two LolitasMrs. Parker and the butterfly effect.
    By Galya Diment
  8. quiz
    Take Vulture’s Catching Fire Superfan QuizDo you feel the hunger … for a quiz about the second Hunger Games book?
    By Rose Maura Lorre and Justin McCraw
  9. books
    Did the National Book Awards’ Bet on the Bigtime Pay Off Last Night?What’s on the line isn’t the $10,000 prize.
    By Boris Kachka
  10. Now Sundance Wants A Visit From the Goon Squad They’re reportedly eyeing an adaptation.
    By Lindsey Weber
  11. books
    Here Are the 2013 National Book Award WinnersIncluding James McBride and George Packer.
    By Delia Paunescu
  12. teen girl squad
    Mindy Kaling on Contemporary Teenagehood“When I was 15 I used to cry myself to sleep with how much I was in love with Dana Carvey.â€
    By Margaret Lyons
  13. obits
    Nobel Prize-Winning Author Doris Lessing Dead at 94She died in London.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  14. books
    What Does the Book Business Look Like on the Inside?Insanity.
    By Daniel Menaker
  15. Bob Zmuda and Lynn Margulies Wrote a Book About Andy Kaufman That Comes […]Earlier this week, there was another “Andy Kaufman is alive†hoaxinvolving a woman pretending to be his daughter and his real life brother, and […]
    By Bradford Evans
  16. unpopular opinions
    Catching Fire: Why I’m Team GaleHear me out. (Also: spoiler alert.)
    By Amanda Dobbins
  17. comparative lit
    6 Ways Hild Is the New Game of ThronesThe young female protagonist reminds us of Arya … and Bran, and Tyrion, and others.
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  18. known knowns
    FAQ: Garth Risk Hallberg’s $2 Million NovelCity of Fire is a big book in every way.
    By Boris Kachka
  19. end of culture
    11 Lost Literary Classics You Can Download for FreePlus: Eight massive online troves of great reading material.
    By Kathryn Schulz
  20. vulture book club
    10 Books to Read If You Can’t Get Enough of Your Favorite TV ShowsMiss Mad Men? Pining for Portlandia? Bummed about Breaking Bad? Cheer yourself up with these book doppelgängers.
    By Andrea Walker
  21. Read an Excerpt from Ron Burgundy’s AutobiographyThe New Yorker has an excerpt from Ron Burgundy’s upcoming autobiography, Let Me Off at the Top! My Classy Life and Other Musings, which comes […]
    By Bradford Evans
  22. How Millennials Feel About Melissa Joan Hart’s Many Make-outs, Then and NowWould readers have been more excited about her smooches with Mario Lopez, Ryan Reynolds, and Adrian Grenier back in the nineties?
    By Anna Silman
  23. live event
    Replay Vulture’s Google+ Hangout with Divergent Author Veronica RothThe Divergent author answered questions for nearly an hour.
    By Vulture Editors
  24. Talking to Rob Delaney About His New Memoir, Writing About Mental Illness, […]Standup and self-branded cool dad Rob Delaney, celebrated for his shameless Twitter musings on Mitt Romney, the perils of marijuana, and the […]
    By Meera Jagannathan
  25. books
    Ask Divergent Author Veronica Roth Your QuestionsOur Google+ Hangout with the Divergent author has been rescheduled for Tuesday, November 5.
    By Adriana Nova
  26. ‘The State’ Is Releasing a New E-Book Version of Their Out of Print ’90s […]Comedy group The State announced today that they’re releasing their comedic USA travel book, State by State with The State: An Uninformed, […]
    By Bradford Evans
  27. chat room
    R.L. Stine on Reviving Fear Street and Why He Loves TwitterWe have goosebumps just thinking about this.
    By Jen Doll
  28. photos
    See Shots From a New Photo Book by The Walking Dead’s Norman ReedusWhen he’s not Daryl Dixon, he’s taking pictures. See some from his new collection.
    By Vulture Editors
  29. photos
    See Shots From a New Photo Book by The Walking Dead’s Norman ReedusWhen he’s not Daryl Dixon, he’s taking pictures. See some from his new collection.
    By Vulture Editors
  30. heartthrobs of yore
    Remembering River Phoenix Twenty Years After His Tragic DeathMemories are sparked by Last Night at the Viper Room, a new book about the final night of the heartthrob’s life two decades ago.
    By Jen Doll
  31. movie deals
    Steven Spielberg Reteams With Lincoln WriterDoris Kearns Goodwin sold her newest tome a week before its release.
    By Delia Paunescu
  32. party chat
    Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s Melissa Joan Hart Didn’t Like Salem the CatOn Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
    By Anna Silman
  33. Read an Excerpt from B.J. Novak’s Upcoming BookThe Office writer/actor B.J. Novak’s first book, a collection of short stories called One More Thing: Stories & Other Stories, is coming […]
    By Bradford Evans
  34. charts
    Charting 20 Years of Pop-Culture Witches, Zombies, and VampiresSee the waxing and waning trendiness of these three spooky staples in movies and TV.
    By Gilbert Cruz and Marisa Woocher
  35. Rob Delaney Uses the Extra Space to Get Candid in His First BookWhen the cover of a book hails the author as the “Funniest Person on Twitterâ€, one might expect that the content of the book would be concise […]
    By Julia Wiedeman
  36. coming to america
    The Morrissey Autobiography Is Coming to the U.S.Merry Christmas, Love Morrissey.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  37. books
    10 Tidbits From Corey Feldman’s Memoir, From ‘Fun’ to ‘Sad’Coreyography runs the gamut from Goonies tales to his descent into drugs.
    By Jen Chaney
  38. mysteries revealed
    J.J. Abrams Explains a Little About His Book S.“The multilayered conceit of the thing almost makes it a play interacting with a book.â€
    By Margaret Lyons
  39. casting couch
    Leonardo DiCaprio Boards Norwegian-Crime-Novel ProjectHe’ll possibly play a hit man who falls in love with his boss’s wife after being assigned to assassinate her.
    By Lindsey Weber
  40. books
    The Return of the Codex Seraphinianus“The book creates a feeling of illiteracy.â€
    By Christopher Bonanos
  41. week in vulture
    10 Pop-Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This WeekSylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, together at last.
    By E. Alex Jung
  42. still ill
    The 25 Most Morrissey-y Quotes in the Morrissey AutobiographyThere’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more.
    By Oliver Lyttelton
  43. goodbyes
    An Obituary for the Bridget Jones Character Who Died[Tears]
    By Amanda Dobbins
  44. 2013 national book awards
    These Are the 2013 National Book Award FinalistsKushner, Lahiri, Pynchon, etc.
    By Lindsey Weber
  45. kudos
    28-Year-Old Eleanor Catton Wins the Man Booker PrizeWe repeat: 28!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  46. vulture essays
    Dave Eggers Deserves a ‘Smile’ for The CircleThe author is getting more “frowns†than “smiles†for his depiction of “the world’s most powerful Internet company.â€
    By Jen Doll
  47. bidding wars
    Making Greenwald Book Into Film Will Be a HassleBut someone will probably do it anyway.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  48. week in vulture
    10 Pop-Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This WeekHow do you make a movie, anyway?
    By E. Alex Jung
  49. standing ovation
    Schulz on Alice Munro’s Deserved NobelOur book critic “can think of no other writer so spare, so precise, so emotionally scrupulous.â€
    By Kathryn Schulz
  50. Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: The Tell-All Biography ‘Johnny Carson’Most people know Carson as the enigmatic personality who hosted The Tonight Show through some of America’s most revolutionary decades. As the […]
    By Joanna Hausmann
  51. boooooo
    Everything Jonathan Franzen Currently HatesThe complete list of digruntlement, as plucked from his footnotes in The Kraus Project.
    By Boris Kachka
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