here are our top picks for an amazingly busy book month! www.vulture.com/article/new-...

Kate Riley joined a Christian commune to figure out how to live well. What she found was more complicated.

Kate Riley's first (and maybe last) novel Ruth is one of my favorite books I've read in a long time, odd and funny and totally singular. For @TheCut, I talked to her about the fascinating communal-living experience that led her to write it www.thecut.com/article/kate...

I talked to Ottessa Moshfegh, Lucy Sante, and others about the freeform "literary busking" they're doing over on Substack for @vulture.com / @nymag.com www.vulture.com/article/subs...

if you go on a hunger strike and your local newspaper is too hollowed out to even write it up, what happens next? I reviewed Hilary Plum's intriguing new novel, State Champ, for @thecut.com www.thecut.com/article/revi...

In Hilary Plum’s ‘State Champ,’ our main character is a charismatic screwup, Angela, the receptionist at a women’s-health clinic in an unnamed U.S. state who stages a hunger strike after an abortion doctor is sent to prison.

Congratulations to Hilary Plum on this review by Emma Alpern in The Cut - link below @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @thecut.com @emmaalpern.bsky.social

A new syllabus for you over at @vulture.com, and it will happen every month 🥲 www.vulture.com/article/new-...

May new book release recommendations include a new Ocean Vuong novel, an essential history of OpenAI, and Amanda Hess’s investigation of parenthood in the digital age.

The McNally Jackson Festival is coming in May -- with talks held over the course of several weeks, plus a phone-free closing party at TJ Byrnes and a print zine www.vulture.com/article/mcna...

McNally Jackson is starting a twice-yearly festival including talks, a print zine, and a phone-free closing party (with ‘a secret lineup’). ‘There will be events related to the festival at least two or three nights a week,’ Sarah McNally says.