*Oprah Winfrey today announced her latest selection for Oprah’s Book Club is “Deacon King Kong” by James McBride. The book club describes it as a witty, moving novel that brings to vivid life a cast of characters living in south Brooklyn in September 1969. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of these characters — …
The long-promised Twilight novel from Edward Cullen’s point of view will finally be published this summer. Author Stephenie Meyer revealed the news Monday on Good Morning America and on her website, which froze from traffic as fans scrambled to check it after a countdown. Midnight Sun was supposed to publish over a decade ago, immediately after the final Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, in 2008. …
*In a Facebook video announcing her new book club selection, Oprah Winfrey says from coronavirus quarantine, “There’s no better time to read than when you’re safer at home.” The TV titan has chosen “Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family” by Robert Kolker. It’s the true story of an American family in which six of …
Parents working nine to five — now from home, amid the coronavirus pandemic — will soon get some help in entertaining their kids, thanks to country music superstar Dolly Parton. The nine-time Grammy winner said beginning this Thursday, she will read bedtime stories to children in a new virtual series called “Goodnight with Dolly.” Each week, …
The actress and comedian Jenny Slate opens her memoir-in-essays Little Weirds with an “Introduction/Explanation/Guide for Consumption” — a description of her stage fright, which doubles as a description of her nerves about writing a book. “On stage and everywhere else,” she writes, “I know there is so much you could do to me. My vulnerability is natural …
Fantasy gifts including a 007 Aston Martin designed by Daniel Craig and a chance to design a pair of Christian Louboutins in Paris. Fantasy gifts are still part of the annual Neiman Marcus Christmas Book, but this year a layer of travel and experiences elevate the off-the-charts gift ideas that the Dallas-based luxury retailer has …
@ELLE @Rose Minutaglio In 2017, I sat down with New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey just two weeks after their explosive exposé detailing decades of accusations against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement. We gathered at the newspaper’s headquarters in Manhattan and both writers seemed honestly shocked by the response to their piece thus far, …
@ELLE @ARIANA YAPTANGCO It’s easy to pick out bad guys in the dating world. We learned as impressionable kids watching TV and movies: No to the bad boys who will break your heart, and yes to the nice boys who will treat you right. But there’s long been a fixation on bad guys, so much …
@ELLE @Gabriella Clifford Crystal Hana Kim’s debut novel, If You Leave Me, is as beautifully layered as it is devastating; in it, we encounter the resilient Haemi, who is thrust into marriage at sixteen, and charged with the care of her ailing younger brother, Hyunki. Through the eyes of five different narrators, we see how Haemi …
@ELLE @Rose Minutaglio Joy Harjo is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a two-time American Book Award winner, mostly recently for her memoir, Crazy Brave.She is a Guggenheim recipient and winner of the Wallace Stevens and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, and will succeed Tracy K. Smith as the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate this fall, making her the …
