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Globe, January 4

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Ghislaine Maxwell buying her way out of prison

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Gavin Rossdale playing tennis with his pup Chewy, Brooke Burke holding holiday balls topless, James Franco takes his cellphone into the sea

Page 3: Leighton Meester surfing in Malibu, Robbie Williams, Lisa Rinna wearing two masks

Page 4: Angelina Jolie is bracing for major humiliation after being dragged into Johnny Depp’s latest legal showdown with ex-wife Amber Heard -- Angie’s run-ins with Johnny who she starred with in 2010′s The Tourist are coming under intense scrutiny as Depp gears for a second court battle with Amber -- Angie and Johnny were so coy about their white-hot connection at the time even though their romance was an open secret but they got lucky because nobody had the smoking gun to prove it but now it’ll all come out in the open -- at the time Johnny was still dating Vanessa Paradis while Angie was five years into her doomed love-in with Brad Pitt -- there’s talk bisexual Amber was kind of obsessed with Angie so Angie is central to the plotline whether she likes it or not

Page 5: The Bachelor host Chris Harrison is worried he’ll follow Dancing with the Stars host Tom Bergeron out the door -- both these shows have been on TV forever and the world has changed around them and to keep up with Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement changes are being discussed and that’s left Chris fearing he’ll be the next Tom Bergeron and replaced by a woman of color

Page 6: Aging divas Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton are caught in a bitter country catfight and long-dead Patsy Cline is the excuse -- although there’s been little love lost between the Nashville icons for nearly 50 years their simmering feud exploded weeks ago when Dolly apparently took some veiled public shots at Loretta’s BFF Patsy who was horribly disfigured in a car wreck two years before dying in a 1963 plane crash -- in an interview Dolly recalled standing in the wings of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry at age 13 and watching Patsy perform and she remembered thinking about how awful it was that she got her pretty face scarred up like that -- Loretta was fit to be tied over the comments Dolly made about her old pal and thinks Dolly should stop running her mouth about Nashville legends like Patsy and Johnny Cash -- Dolly’s heard about Loretta’s complaints through the grapevine and brushes them off as quarantine boredom mixed with old age

Page 8: Blake Shelton’s going bonkers after fiancee Gwen Stefani told him she wants to skip the mega-million star-studded wedding shindig he’s been planning and elope -- Blake is all bent out of shape over Gwen’s latest switcheroo which calls for them to get hitched on the sly at a Mexican resort and she’s got him so mixed up he can’t think straight because for the longest time she wanted the Hollywood-style wedding with all the bells and whistles and was very particular about details but now she’s telling him to ditch those plans which have already cost them a small fortune and book a trip somewhere exotic so they can just just get it over with -- Gwen wants to elope so they can hitched at the Riviera Maya resort in Cancun where they could swap vows on the beach witnessed by her three sons and Blake has no choice but to give in to Gwen and he’s saying he’s fine with it as long as she’s sure this time

Page 9: Hollywood horndog John Mayer is back sniffing around old flame Jennifer Aniston after his mom gave him a shove -- John and Jen had a steamy fling for about a year before he dropped her in 2009 and now John’s mom Margaret Meyer is scolding him for letting Jen go and John’s mom is always on him about settling down and she feels that at 43 he should be married and she recently had a heart-to-heart talk with him and told him she thought Jennifer was the most down-to-earth of all his exes and because John considers his mom one of the smartest people he knows he decided to reach out to Jen and he’s always admired Jen and thought of her as a classy lady and now he’s reaching out to her again in hopes of getting her to agree to see him again once things leave lockdown

* FKA Twigs has socked actor Shia LaBeouf with a bombshell lawsuit claiming he subjected her to relentless physical, emotional and mental abuse and gave her an STD and she also accuses him of sexual battery, assault, and infliction of emotional distress -- although Shia says she’s lying Twigs insists Shia once choked her in the middle of the night and kept a loaded firearm by the bed leaving her terrified to get up at night for fear he’d think she was an intruder and shoot her -- she claims during an incident around Valentine’s Day 2019 Shia threatened to crash his speeding car unless she professed her love for him so when he pulled into a gas station she got out of the car but he threw her against the car while screaming in her face then forced her back into the car -- Shia also had rules about how often Twigs had to kiss and touch him -- Shia has been arrested several times on now-dismissed charges including assault and disorderly conduct

Page 10: John Lennon didn’t have to die -- that’s law enforcement experts’ explosive analysis after reviewing newly discovered evidence about the Beatles legend’s December 8, 1980 murder in NYC -- an odd series of coincidences and simple decisions put Lennon and his killer Mark David Chapman in the same place at the same time -- a review of the details concludes Lennon’s death was a strange result of flukes including his penchant for running around without protection and a missed appointment with his photographer and without these quirks of fate John would still be alive and recording hit songs

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Pink flashes her bandaged thumb after getting stitches in Santa Monica (picture), Amanda Seyfried confesses she made a terrible decision for turning down the role of a lifetime as Chris Pratt’s love interest in Guardians of the Galaxy and now she’s watching from the sidelines as the director’s second choice Zoe Saldana skyrockets in the money-making Marvel franchise, Katherine Heigl will star in the upcoming limited biopic series Woodhull about Victoria Woodhull the first woman to run for president in 1872, Big Brother alum Zach Rance has come out as bisexual after admitting a sizzling same-sex romance with his former reality show housemate Frankie Grande who is the real-life older brother of pop star Ariana Grande

Page 13: Jaime King slurps down a meal on the streets on L.A. (picture), Jax Taylor mowing the lawn (picture), Guns N’ Roses axman Slash loads up on supplies at an L.A. grocery (picture), former teen heartthrob Chad Michael Murray admits his inflated young ego got the best of him and now he looks at photos of himself and thinks what a dweeb

Page 14: Julia Roberts is headed for the small screen headlining the limited TV series The Last Thing He Told Me where she’ll form an unexpected relationship with her teenage stepdaughter while searching for the truth about her husband’s mysterious disappearance, Emma Stone is also heading for the flat-screen in the comedy series The Curse alongside Nathan Fielder about a couple starring on an HGTV-style show who are trying to conceive a child amid an alleged curse, Nicolas Cage is hosting a new series called The History of Swear Words in which he’ll delve into the origins and pop culture usage and science and cultural impact of profanely shocking expletives

* Fashion Police -- Peyton List 8/10, Sofia Carson 9/10, Vanessa Hudgens 2/10, Neve Campbell 1/10, Chelsea Handler 4/10

Page 16: Cover Story -- Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s $30M jail break -- terrified and tortured Ghislaine risks family fortune to buy her freedom -- the accused sex predator and her fat cat inner circle are set to plunk down an obscene $30 million to buy her way out of federal prison in what outraged investigators fear is a brazen plot to cheat justice

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Mayim Bialik

* Lizzo is admitting she’s having negative thoughts and is hating her 300-pound body but adds she knows she beautiful

* The Spice Girls were likely liquored up on cut-rate champagne when they made their first album according to Emma Bunton a.k.a. Baby Spice who says she and her bandmates swilled the cheapest sparkling wine in the studio

Page 20: True Crime -- a chilling message left by the elusive Zodiac Killer has finally been cracked by a team of code breakers after 51 years -- a hodgepodge of numbers, symbols and letters called the 340 cipher was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 and lawmen believed it contained key clues to the serial killer’s identity but the truth is even more chilling -- according to the experts the message says I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me, I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradise all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me

Page 21: Caitlyn Jenner is terrified after learning her skin cancer has returned a second time -- she was diagnosed with basal cell skin cancer a few years ago and had an entire layer of skin removed from her nose -- since then she’s been slathering on sunscreen but a new red spot on the right side of her nose popped up along with some crusty areas on her scalp but the nose patch was not cancer but hypertrophic keratosis or scaly damage from sun exposure -- however the dozen spots on the top of her head was squamous cell carcinoma which is a skin cancer that’s known to be aggressive so her doctor burned off the offending spots -- her doctor recommended she replace her 1960 Austin-Healey convertible but the chances of Caitlyn selling her prized ride are slim

Page 23: Your 2021 Horoscope -- love, luck, health, wealth, happiness -- plus surprising celebrity predictions -- Elton John, Valerie Bertinelli, Johnny Depp, Jessica Simpson, Matthew Perry, Cameron Diaz, Will Smith, Katy Perry, Howie Mandel, Savannah Guthrie, Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood

Page 30: Larry King has reached a deal with estranged wife Shawn but she’s royally peeved about the payoff -- Larry has agreed to pay her a lump sum of $20,000 plus $33,000 a month in spousal support which lasts until at least their next scheduled hearing in April but Shawn claims the 33Gs only covers a third of her monthly nut which includes $25,000 for rent on her home, $12,000 on clothes, $3500 on groceries and $4500 for hair and nails and pet care and gym

Page 31: Kim Kardashian is reading husband Kanye West the riot act over his junk food benders that are sabotaging her healthy eating program and it’s led to more than a few arguments with no peace in sight -- he’s telling her to chill and let him live by his own terms but she can’t do that because it’s driving her crazy -- what really ticks Kim off is his junk food has totally taken over her section of fresh cut veggies, fruits and water and she wants him to get his own storage in a different part of the house where she won’t have to see it or hold her nose

* Kardashian momager Kris Jenner’s faux reality TV home is on the market for nearly $8 million even though she never lived there -- the L.A. estate was used for exterior shots of the image-conscious family’s compound on Keeping Up with the Kardashians but it was all for show -- dubbed the Iredell Estate the house also appears in True Blood and Chelsea Lately

Page 33: Health Report

Page 34: Wrestling Ring Kings: Where Are They Now? Sable, Bret Hart

Page 35: Lex Luger, Steve Austin, Ric Flair

Page 36: The Undertaker, Tito Santana, Diamond Dallas Page

Page 37: Kane, Kurt Angle, Sunny, Mick Foley

Page 39: Despite an astounding 30 No. 1 country music hits legendary singer Charley Pride took a haunting regret to his grave that he never made it as major league baseball star -- Charley had so much success but he died tormented his baseball career short-circuited -- Charley was singing and playing guitar by the time he was 14 but his real goal was to pitch for the New York Yankees -- Charley signed with a Yankees farm team as a flame-throwing phenom at 17 but in his rookie season he threw out his arm and was just never the same -- after he struck out in baseball he put his full energy into singing but faced an uphill battle -- Charley was the Jackie Robinson of country music and he endured a lot of racism

Page 40: Kelsey Grammer admits he often breaks down and blubbers like a baby and it makes him feel better and he cries when he’s upset or sad or scared and it provides him a lot of relief and he believes years of tragedy in his life taught him to cry as a healing mechanism and now he sheds tears whenever he has sad feeling bottled up inside him

* A moneybags James Bond fan coughed up a whopping $256,000 for the handgun 007 Sean Connery toted in the first spy epic Dr. No -- the disabled Walther PP semi-automatic was supposed to bring in no more than $200,000 but the unidentified American buyer who claims to have seen every Bond epic went even higher

Page 44: Straight Talk -- Miley Cyrus is now blabbing about why she broke up with husband Liam Hemsworth after years of togetherness and just nine months of marriage and it sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black

Page 45: Furious Queen Elizabeth has booted Princess Eugenie and her husband out of Prince Harry’s Frogmore Cottage home in a bit to foil Meghan Markle’s plan to completely cut him off from England and the royal family -- pregnant Eugenie and her booze-seller husband Jack Brooksbank were ordered to quit the cottage and move back to Kensington Palace just six weeks after Harry and Meghan secretly leased them the home meaning Harry and Meghan are still on the financial hook for Frogmore which was a gift from the queen and they will have to underwrite the cost of keeping up the property and it also ensures Harry has a home in Britain if he ever wants to come back -- by moving Eugenie and Jack out the queen has made sure Harry still has a place to hang his hat if he decides to come back to leave his American wife

Page 47: Bizarre But True

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infinityhq-a · 3 years

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serendipitousrambles · 5 years

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2018 in review

Thank you Kaisa and Sabrina for tagging me! @summer-in-hawkins @the-proud-princess

Top 5 films watched in 2018

1. Mamma Mia here we go again

2. I saw the Hobbit for the first time and it was good

3. I just remembered I saw Greatest Showman back in January and if that’s not proof of how long this freaking year has been then idk what to say

4. to all the boys i’ve loved before

5. set it up - it was nice to have a good romcom i felt like i hadn’t seen one in a while like the older ones but this and talbilb was soo good

Top 5 TV shows of 2018

1. I binged Queer Eye and I'm obsessed!!!

2. Brooklyn Nine Nine

3. still gotta be Stranger Things even with this lack of content

4. Anne with an E

5. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia

Top 5 songs of 2018

1. the mamma mia here we go again soundtrack bops

2. nothing has really changed this year i still listenn to the awful stuff i did last year so....

Top 5 books of 2018

1. The Girls by Emma Cline, it’s about a girl who kind of joins a cult back in the 60s. I think it’s loosely based off the manson family murders. It’s different and I couldn’t put it down

2. The Hobbit - my flatmate is reading it to me because it's his favourite book and I like it. We're only a few chapters in though but so far so good

3. Anne of Green Gables - I loved the show and knew I had to read the book series so over summer I just sat and read them all and I love them so much

4. I read Lord of the flies back when i was 12 but i didn’t really like it/understand it but i went back this year and reread it now i’m older and i really loved it. it’s funny how a few years can make a difference like that

5. Princess Bride by William Goldman (I thought I read it aaages ago but no that was at the start of this year, this year feels so looong but it’s almost over)

Five positive things that happened in 2018:

1. I got accepted to my first choice university and I'm currently studying literature here now so that's insane because I never thought I'd be able to live away from home but I'm actually kind of doing ok haha

2. I passed my driving test

3. I made 4 amazing new friends (this goes with uni because my flatmates/new friends are great - and maybe I like one of them but enough on him...)

4. Got pretty good A-Level results

5. I went to Disneyland Paris and finally got to meet Peter Pan and I loved every second of it!

i won’t tag anyone because it looks like every man and his dog has done this and i’m just super late haha :)

#i still can't believe it's almost 2019 #that's not a real year surely

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canonicallyanxious · 6 years

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Book lover questions!!

tagged by @thelibraryiscool. this looks like so much fun, thank you friend! <3

1. Book that’s been on your shelves the longest?

Uhhh it would have to be the Harry Potter books i reckon, i’ve been reading those since i was six?? then again they’re technically at my parents’ house and not with me anymore so idk lol

2. Current read, last read and book you’ll read next:

[would if i could include fanfiction in this tbh]

currently reading: well i’ve had toni morrison’s the bluest eye tucked in my bag for ages and i’ve read the first, like, three pages so i’m gonna say that counts. i’ve also been trying to finish the little friend by donna tartt for ages but tbqh idk if i will, it’s kinda starting to bore me lol

last read: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour! very sad and beautiful, probably one of my most recent faves. last month i also burned through simon v the homo sapiens agenda, everything leads to you, and gena/finn. would recommend the first two thoroughly!! still have complicated mixed feelings about the last

book you’ll read next: AHHHH IDK I HAVE TOO MANY ON MY TO READ LIST. just glanced over at my shelf and the first three books i see are kafka on the shore by haruki murakami, girls by emma cline, and the picture of dorian grey by oscar wilde so i guess we’ll go with those

3. Book that you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but probably won’t?

see: pretty much everything on my to read pile some of those books have been there since i was a sophomore in high school DON’T @ ME

4. Which book character would you swap places with?

i would swap places with Anne Elliot’s sister in Persuasion by Jane Austen so i could be a better sister to Anne and also kick the asses of anyone who tries to fuck with her [i almost contemplated answering Anne herself because she and Wentworth are ULTIMATE RELATIONSHIP GOALS but honestly they’re perfect together i can’t mess with that]

5. Any required reading you hated in school, that wasn’t so bad 10 years later?

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, which was a fucking pain in the ass in high school because our summer reading assignment was to write chapter summaries for every chapter [yes, all 117 of them. yes, it’s probably as bad and maybe even worse than it sounds] but is a genuinely good book? i also feel like i can appreciate lord of the flies more now that i’m not a petulant 13 year old but it’s still never going to be my favorite

6. Used or brand new?

no preference! these days probably used just because they’re cheaper pfff

7. Stephen King - literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I actually don’t really have much of an opinion of him either way? i’ve read a couple of his books [bag of bones, carrie; i also have the shining on my shelf, will probably never read it tbh], i liked them well enough, even if i’m not gonna go out of my way to read more; his model of writing is not something i personally aspire to but i don’t think he’s a bad writer by any means

8. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

Atonement. the movie is beautiful and heartaching and features young saoirse ronan, what more could you ask for. the book made me really uncomfortable and none of the characters were particularly likeable #yikes

[also i’m a huge neil gaiman fan and like i love stardust but tbqh the movie is even better it just is i’m sorry]

9. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

Ender’s game. ENDER’S GAME. E N D E R ‘ S G A M E

[honestly the worst book to movie adaptations i can think of are the ones probably no one remembers exists like who here remembers eragon?? the golden compass??? logan lerman’s percy jackson LOL]

[also “never should have been introduced” is a bit of a strong term but tbh i didn’t really like the hobbit movies sorry don’t kill me]

tagging: @boxesfullofthoughts, @hotchocolatenthusiast, @pronouncingitwang, @rumpelsnorcack, @askybison, @suseinmcswenney, @call-this-a-mask, and @ohandrews <33

#sure i'll do a thing #literature

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delightful-mystery · 4 years

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Why I Boycotted Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Before I begin, I want to start by saying that the word “boycott” obviously means that I haven’t seen the film. It’s kind of unusual for me to argue about something without fully informing myself of the facts first, but this is something I had to write about.

(and I will watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood once I can source it for free…)

Okay, so now that we have the disclaimer out of the way, I want to begin by saying I used to be a massive Tarantino fan. I still am, to some extent. I love violent films and gore, and I am never one to shy away from anything because it is too weird or too violent (I’m not saying I class Tarantino as particularly weird, but I think he wants to be, and for mainstream films, he’s not the most basic).

But, looking back on his films now from the perspective of someone who knows a little bit more about the world than the 15-year-old girl who persuaded her dad to watch Pulp Fiction with her, I feel uncomfortable. Not about the violence inherently, not even about the violence against women inherently, but about the fact that every punch in the face that a pregnant Uma Therman received was directed by a man.

Obviously, feeling uncomfortable is kind of Tarantino’s end game here. But how much power over our emotions should be demanded by a white man who has never come up against societal oppression in his life? It’s weird. And that’s even before you start thinking about how many N-words you hear in his films. He does pay homage to the blaxploitation film trend with Jackie Brown, but… he’s not black? So is it his trend to reclaim?

Moving on from Tarantino himself, I next wanted to talk about why it was Once Upon A Time in Hollywood which particularly spiked my annoyance. And this is where I get to nerd out about one of my favourite true crime stories of all time – the Manson Murders. In a way similar to Tarantino reclaiming a narrative which is not his to reclaim, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and the true crime story of the Manson Murders is a story which, I believe, should be reclaimed by women.

The Manson Murders are one of the most widely talked about true crime stories out there. It’s also my personal favourite, another reason why I got so annoyed about this film being made. Charles Manson was a very troubled man who wanted to be a rockstar. Towards the end of the sixties, after a troubled childhood and adolescent spent in and out of prison, he began to gather a cult around him, known as “The Family”, convincing vulnerable young women who had run away from home that he was the messiah and would save them from the imminent apocalypse. What he really wanted was to record and release an album in response to the Beatles’ White Album, which he believed held the secret to surviving the apocalypse and was calling for him, in secret messages, to respond with his own music. When his demos were rejected by the music moguls of Hollywood, Manson told his followers that they had to enact revenge on those who wronged him, leading some of his right-hand women to kill an 8-month pregnant Sharon Tate and some of her friends who were in the house with her.

[This is a very condensed version of what happened. For an in-depth version, I recommend the podcast ‘You Must Remember This’ and its series named ‘Manson’s Hollywood’.]

Creepy Manson is creepy.

Manson used a variety of methods to ensure that, once in the cult, the members were not able to leave. They felt they depended on him, and he constantly fed them lies about being the chosen one, how special they were to him, as well as giving them tabs of acid and talking to them whilst they were tripping. This sort of tactic obviously includes a lot of manipulating, brainwashing, gaslighting and more, even before we get to the illegal drugs. This sort of operation could only have happened on this scale at this time – i.e. the late sixties, where it was commonplace to “turn on, tune in, drop out” (a.k.a. running away from home to practice free love and take lots of acid) – meaning that there were plenty of young women and men roaming the streets. Manson’s “commune” on his ranch must have seemed like the perfect opportunity for them to find like-minded people who also believed in a new world. Charles Manson gathered followers over the years and told them of ‘Helter Skelter’ (so named after the Beatles’ song) – the apocalypse led by black people who would kill all the whites. This obviously sounds crazy written on paper, but after leaving their whole lives behind and being brainwashed instead by a guy who had smooth-talked his way into living in one of the Beach Boy’s homes (seriously, he did that), his followers were primed to believe anything.

The Manson Murders are a gendered issue. And this is where I have a problem. It’s literally a tale of how one man manipulated a bunch of women. Vulnerable women, at the hands of one man who, after years of coercion and brainwashing, were manipulated into carrying out one of the most bizarre and bloodthirsty crimes that the States have ever seen.

“Hold up now, weren’t there men in Charlie’s cult as well?”

Well yes, anonymous keyboard-owner, there were. And I’m glad you asked. There were indeed men involved in Charles Manson’s cult, but it was only the women who were subjected to the sexual manipulations, coercion and rape which Manson inflicted on his followers. He also predominantly targeted women to join The Family. Men were collateral damage in this instance, people he just picked up along the way. His main priority was finding women to follow him, and for him to have sex with.

The crime itself was carried out by Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Kenwinkle and Linda Kasabian. It was predominantly women who committed the best-known act of Tate’s murder (and the murder of the LaBiancas which I’m going to guess isn’t given as much screen time in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood because by this point Margot Robbie isn’t around?) and the murder of Tate’s unborn child in a perversion of motherhood which many see as a complete rejection of her femininity. Again, this story is a gendered crime. The manipulation which led up to it was gendered. It’s an extreme case of gaslighting and manipulation, sure, but it wouldn’t be the first time a woman has been manipulated by a narcissistic man.

And somehow, I don’t think Tarantino would take all of this into account when directing his film.

I have yet to watch it, of course (and I will post a follow-up review once I have and we can see if any of these predictions were right). But what I have done is read The Girls by Emma Cline. One of the best books I have ever read, The Girls is an occasionally overwritten but nonetheless a beautifully hazy and melancholic look at the end of the sixties, and loosely based on Charles Manson and The Family. It’s such a good read, whether you know about the Manson Murders or not (I have read it once before, and once after, becoming a nerd about this subject matter). What it’s especially good at, however, is bringing in the context of being a woman in this society. I have a few passages highlighted in this book. One of them is as follows; “All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you – the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.” She recognises that the fiendish acts of Manson would not have been able to occur had patriarchal inequality not existed. There are other examples of this being recognised, Charlie Says being one of them – a slightly underwhelming film by Guinevere Turner and directed by Mary Harron, the team behind American Psycho. This film uses the art-rehabilitation program in the Santa Cruz Prison Project – aimed to rehabilitate female inmates with feminist praxis and reading, and other art-based creative projects designed to give them more of a sense of self, independent from Manson – to frame the narrative and explore deeper the characters of the Mason murderesses. Unfortunately, it’s a great idea carried off without much success, but this is only one drop in the ocean of Manson-related media.

Matt Smith, Marian Rendon, Kayli Carter and Merritt Weaver in the sadly lacklustre feminist take on the Manson murders, Charlie Says.

We as a culture are obsessed with him. There’s countless films about this guy – Helter Skelter, The Manson Family, Summer of Love (which was never actually finished). He has almost 40,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. I see Once Upon as a film which panders more towards the status of Manson and examines his crimes in the way that Tarantino tends to look at violence – with curiosity, and without moral judgement. I’m not saying you can’t make a fun film about the late sixties but I guess I would feel more comfortable if it was guaranteed that these issues would be explored sensitively by someone who understands them.

But hey, I guess I could be wrong. I haven’t seen it after all. The film, from what I can tell, does not focus so much on “The Family” and instead chooses to follow at Leo and Brad as a failing actor and his stunt double. Does that make it better or worse? Does Margo Robbie get the well-rounded character development she deserves before Tate is brutally murdered by the women of The Family? And that’s another thing – Tarantino’s history of woman-on-woman action and fighting is not the most reassuring thing for me to base this essay on. It’s fetishistic and bloody – take again the scene of pregnant Uma Therman being beaten up by her co-workers in Kill Bill. It’s not to say his scenes in which he depicts violence against men are not completely horrible as well (the rape in Pulp Fiction, for example), but – as far as I’m aware – that scene was not based on a true story.

Tarantino has also, in his personal life, defended both Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski (also weirdly caught up in the story of the Manson Murders as he was married to Sharon Tate at the time). He has also caused Uma Therman permanent injuries of her neck and knees due to what she describes as “criminal negligence” during a dangerous driving scene in Kill Bill, which he insisted she did, instead of a stuntwoman. I’m just saying, he may not have the best understanding of how violence against women, and women’s issues in general, should be portrayed onscreen.

Then again, I haven’t watched the film. But after reading this piece, I would hope that you understand why I chose not to.

from Why I Boycotted Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

#Why I Boycotted Once Upon A Time In Hollywood #personal #mylife

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Everything I Read in 2016

For the third year in a row, I logged every novel, short story collection, poetry compilation, graphic novel, and collected edition of monthly comics I read, excluding individual monthly comics (on which I continued to fall catastrophically behind) and anything I read (and reread, and reread again) for my day job. My only big change? A lot of these books were read on my iPad Mini. And a good number were for my gay book club (you can guess which ones).

If you don’t yet keep track of your reading, you should start in 2017. It’s your best bet for hitting a reading goal, and for folks like me who read a ton, it’s a nice way to recall books that otherwise departed your memory.

For the tl;dr crowd, here are my Top 13 for the year, in the order in which I read them:

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Girls, Emma Cline

I Am a Hero Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (I read an ARC)

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

Habitat, Simon Roy

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

(New X-Men Omnibus was a re-read, or it would be up here.)

The rest is below the jump!

I don’t really feel like dumping on anything this year. I definitely got burnt out on comic anthologies, and I hated A Little Life, but the good outweighs the bad. Below is the full list, divided by month, followed by a few statistics and an evaluation of my 2016 reading goals as established last January.

[A note on comics: I feel guilty that I’ve left off colorists and inkers, as they contribute so much to a book, but I defaulted to cover credits while logging my reading and don’t have most of these books on-hand to fix it now.]

January

The Amazing World of Gumball: Fairy Tale Trouble, Megan Brennan, Katy Farina, Jeremy Lawson

Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem, Kate Leth, Bridget Underwood, Drew Green, Vaughn Pinpin, Meredith McClaren

Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland, Kim Newman, Maura McHugh, Tyler Crook

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams & Joe Hill

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson

February

Planet Hulk, Sam Humphries & Marc Laming

Future Imperfect, Peter David & Greg Land

Hail Hydra, Rick Remender & Roland Boschi

House of M, Dennis Hopeless & Marco Failla

Marvel Zombies, Si Spurrier & Kev Walker

Old Man Logan, Brian Michael Bendis & Andrea Sorrentino

The Girls, Emma Cline

The Gilded Razor, Sam Lansky

March

Civil War, Charles Soule & Leinil Francis Yu

New X-Men Omnibus, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, Ethan Van Sciver, Igor Kordey, Marc Silvestri, Keron Grant, Chris Bachalo, John Paul Leon, Bill Sienkiewicz, Leinil Francis Yu

The Eye of the Cat, Elejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius

All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders

Beyond Anthology, edited by Sfé Monster & Taneka Scott

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Patricia Lockwood

April

I Am a Hero Vol. 1, Kengo Hanazawa

The Nameless City Vol. 1, Faith Erin Hicks

Ody-C Vol. 1, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff

Husk, Rachel Autumn Deering

New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, edited by C. Spike Trotman

Chainmail Bikini: An Anthology of Women Gamers, edited by Hazel Newlevant

Broken Frontier, edited by Frederik Hautain & Tyler Chin-Tanner

Love in All Forms: The Big Book of Growing Up Queer, edited by Serafina Dwyer

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1, Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

The Girl With All the Gifts, M. R. Carey

Regular Show: Noir Means Noir, Buddy, Rachel Connor, Robert Luckett, Wook Jin Clark

Night Air, Ben Sears

Revenger: Children of the Damned, Charles Forsman

Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link

May

Dark Engine Vol. 1, Ryan Burton & John Bivens

Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird, Brandon Seifert, Karl Moline, Filipe Andrade

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender

Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire

Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Charles M. Blow

Revival Vol. 1, Tim Seeley & Mike Norton

The Fireman, Joe Hill

Colder: Toss the Bones, Paul Tobin & Juan Ferreyra

The Fly: Outbreak, Brandon Seifert & Menton3

Faker, Mike Carey & Jock

What If? Infinity, Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Norton, Jason Copeland, Goran Sudžuka

June

Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Jacopo Camagni

Outcast Vol. 3, Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta

Lady Killer Vol. 1, Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich

The Fiction, Curt Pires & David Rubín

The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 2, Frank Gibson, Tyson Hesse, Paulina Ganucheau

Arcadia, Alex Paknadel & Eric Scott Pfeiffer

Black Market, Frank J. Barbiere & Victor Santos

Dream Thief Vol. 2, Jai Nitz, Greg Smallwood, Todd Galusha

Contest of Champions Vol.1, Al Ewing & Paco Medina

The Infinity Gauntlet, Dustin Weaver & Gerry Duggan

The Amulet, Michael McDowell

The Dark Half, Stephen King

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Steve Moncuse & Art Adams

Steven Universe: Too Cool for School, Ian Jones-Quartey, Jeremy Sorese, Asia Kendrick-Horton, Rachel Dukes, Josceline Fenton

Bob’s Burgers: Medium Rare, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Bob’s Burgers: Well Done, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates

Kare-Kare Komiks, Andrew Drilon

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

The Witcher: House of Glass, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

X-Men: No More Humans, Mike Carey & Salvador Larroca

Cold Moon Over Babylon, Michael McDowell

July

Black Hand Comics, Wes Craig

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: The Devil’s Wings, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, Lawrence Campbell, Joe Querio, Tyler Crook

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Flesh & Stone, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, James Harren

Abe Sapien: Sacred Places, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara

Abe Sapien: A Darkness So Great, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fuimara, Max Fiumara

Hellboy & the B.P.R.D. 1952, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Alex Maleev

Lobster Johnson: Get the Lobster!, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Tonči Zonjić

Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case

The Witcher: Fox Children, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

Children of the Night, John Blackburn

Frankenstein Underground, Mike Mignola & Ben Stenbeck

My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Grady Hendrix

August

The Well, Jack Cady

Angel Catbird Vol. 1, Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

September

Fellside, M. R. Carey

The Twilight Children, Gilbert Hernandez & Darwyn Cooke

Veil, Greg Rucka & Toni Fejzula

Negative Space, Ryan K. Lindsey & Owen Geini

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 1, Alex De Campi, Chris Peterson, Simon Fraser

Bitch Planet Vol. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV

Ody-C Vol. 2, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Tampa, Alissa Nutting

Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror, compiled by Stephen Jones

The Missing, Sarah Langan

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 2, Alex De Campi, Federica Manfredi, Gary Erskine

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 3, Alex De Campi, R.M. Guera, Chris Peterson

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 4, Alex De Campi, Mulele Jarvis, John Lucas

Audition, Ryu Murakami

Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Suehiro Maruo

In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami

October

Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier

Anya’s Ghost, Vera Brosgol

One Week in the Library, W. Maxwell Prince & John Amor

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

I Am a Hero Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

The Beauty Vol. 1, Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo Vol. 1, Drew Weing

November

Gerald’s Game, Stephen King

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman

Invisible Republic Vol. 1, Gabriel Hardman & Corinne Bechko

Roche Limit Vol. 1, Michael Moreci & Vic Malhorta

What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell

Roche Limit Vol. 2, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

Roche Limit Vol. 3, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

One-Punch Man Vol. 9, ONE & Yusuke Murata

One-Punch Man Vol. 10, ONE & Yusuke Murata

Habitat, Simon Roy

December

Beowulf, Santiago García & David Rubín

The Oath, edited by Audrey Redpath

Star Wars: Tales From the Far, Far Away, Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Ryan Cady, Phillip Sevy, etc.

Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones

Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter

Tomie Deluxe Edition, Junji Ito

Krampus!, Brian Jones & Dean Kotz

Fantasy Sports Vol. 2, Sam Bosma

The Beauty Vol. 2, Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, Stephen Green

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, Ryan Q. North & Erica Henderson

Love is Love, edited by Marc Andreyko

Joe Golem Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Patric Reynolds

Baltimore: Cult of the Red King, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Peter Bergting

Abe Sapien: The Burning Fire, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Max Fiumara, Sebastian Fiumara, Tyler Crook

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire, Neil Gaiman & Shane Oakley

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

Total:

140 Books (up from 128 in 2015 and 87 in 2014)

Breakdown:

39 Novels or short story collections (down from 43 in 2015 and 44 in 2014)

98 Graphic novels/collected editions of comics (up from 84 in 2015 and a measly 42 in 2014)

3 Books of poetry (triple the 2015 and 2014 counts!)

About 35 Books written or edited by female authors (up from 20 in 2015 and 16 in 2014; note that I’m only counting writers and editors, not artists, and I’m counting books, not unique authors)

Roughly 19 books by (known-to-be) non-white authors (down from 30 last year but up from 9 in 2014...but both this year and last were inflated by multiple entries from manga creators)

...and at least 16 books written or edited by queer and trans authors.

So...any suggestions for 2017?

#best of 2016 #best of #best books #top ten books #books #comic books

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Hey, Rachel! Have you ever felt unsure about what you wanna be as an artist? I'm struggling with how I want to approach the story ideas I have. I don't know if I should go for a more litfic vibe or the genre one. By the way, do you have litfic recommendations?

Hi anon! ohh boy!!! how did you know this is my constant crisis!

I say it on here a lot, and I’ll say it again because this is what I’m studying, but I adore literary fiction! It brings me joy, and I couldn’t be happier when writing it! However! I do get a genre bug every once in a while, not to write fantasy or sci-fi, or even dystopian like I used to, but just to write in a way that isn’t literary. This is kinda where Moth Work comes from. I wanted a place that was a bit more genre/conventional, and so that little series is the embodiment of that. This crisis, however, is the reason why I haven’t written Houses With Teeth despite having the idea for over a year. I’m kind of stuck between my two worlds and don’t know how to cope with/fix that! This dilemma really only applies to Fostered, though, which makes sense since that started out genre.

I’d say in this instance, you can do both? This is what I’m doing with Fostered, where the series has become a weird hybrid of both, leaning more toward litfic, and also what I’m doing by writing The Sun Only Drowns Us, a very litfic book! You don’t have to just be one kind of writer! Some days I realllllyyyy do not want to write in my typical litfic-y style, so I don’t! And some days, I really do, so I do! (This is also why writing short fiction helps because it’s almost like a breather to try new things.)

I do have recommendations! This is my book Bible as everyone probably already knows, but The Girls by Emma Cline is the reason I write the way I write today lol bless that book. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund is so good (I actually just re-read a scene to get into the writing mode). Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson is in my top three fave books (the character dynamics!!). I also really liked Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (so whacky), as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (prepare to have your heart broken)! I think this book is out of print, but if you can access a copy, Other Women by Nicola Maye Goldberg was such a treat! I also recently read Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss for an English class and it’s so good!! I am terribly bad at reading, so I read most of these years ago lol but I still adore them!

As for short stories, here are some faves:

- Dead Girls by Emily Geminder

- Houses by Emily Geminder

- We Walked On Water by Eliza Robertson

- Sea Life by Eliza Robertson (love the narrator here)

- The Extra by Michael Christie (will make you cry)

- Cathedral by Raymond Carver (was lowkey mad at how much I adored this)

- Simple Recipes by Madeleine Thien (will also make you cry)

- Tapka by David Bezmozgis (will make you cry also)

I feel like I’m forgetting more favourites because I haven’t read much short fiction in a while!! But also not because I’m biased but because @shaelinwrites is genuinely my all time fave at everything!

- I Will Never Tell You This by Shaelin Bishop (hahaha more stories that will make! you! cry!)

- Barefoot by Shaelin Bishop (more tears!!!)

- Solarium by Shaelin Bishop (you want wild?? here is wild!)

Good luck!!

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Hey Sam, I'm looking to read something over my break. What are some of your favorite contemporary books that you've read & in general, good books that you liked?

First I just want to say how happy I am that I got this question. I’m first going to list all the books I read this summer that I liked (which is pretty much all of them), then I’ll list a few more books that I really enjoy. All of these books have come out within the past ten years, most of them aren’t even five years old :

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—Tells the story of two people, Ifemelu and Obinze, who fell in love as kids but got separated after Ifem moved to America post high school. Outstanding novel, highlight was the characterization and the way the book presents the struggles of being black while in the West when you’re never used to dealing with racism in the society you grew up in.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell—Nonfiction, lays out how success relates to more than hard work, but can also be (somewhat) predetermined by when you were born, your race, and your family background. Very interesting book that will change the way you look at success and “rags to riches” stories.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty—Three women in a small, upscale town and all have kids in the same class are bonded together by their friendship have their lives upended over the course of a year. This book isn’t short, it’s a little over 400 pages, but it’s a fast read. I bought it right before getting on a six hour flight and finished the whole thing by the time the plane landed. In addition to being face paced, I also love this book because it portrays a level of respect for women friendship that’s hard to find in media. Where a lot of other stories would have pit the women against each other at certain conflicts, this book actually bring them closer together. Even when looking at two women who don’t like each other, the characters still don’t revel in the other’s pain past a point whereas again a lot of other books/movies/shows would have had the one character delighted over the turmoil the other was going through. Also if you’ve seen the show (I haven’t yet) and don’t want to read the book because you’ll have the show in your head, apparently the book and show are pretty different so I’d say it’s still worth a read.

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney—An estranged family who are supposed to inherit a large sum of money when the youngest sister turns 40 in a few months find their fortune almost completely gone after the inheritance money is used to cover up the oldest brother’s accident. Not my favorite book, but I definitely enjoyed it more as I kept reading. The narrative structure was interesting, and there wasn’t any character I was too bored about reading (there were definitely more characters I cared about more than others, however). There are also a few gay characters in the book so bonus points I guess.

The Girls by Emma Cline—This one was a hit last year, and while I didn’t like it as much as other people did, I don’t regret reading it at all. The narration from the protagonist gets unnecessarily detailed at some points and I wasn’t crazy about the voice, but still a good read. I’ll slap a trigger warning on this one for much older people having sexual activity with minors and a few cases of coerced sexual actions/possible rape.

I’ve read most of A.S King’s books and they’re pretty good. Young adult, so a fast read.

I like Gillian Flynn, who’s written Sharp Objects, Gone Girl, and Dark Places (listed in order of how much I like them). I especially like how all her protagonists are women who are severely flawed people (Amy Dunne of Gone Girl is by far the worst, being a sociopath who has killed people and lied about rape. The other two books don’t have protagonists who are evil like her, they’re just fucked up people).

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller—retelling of the story of Patroclus and Achilles from when they were boys to fighting in the Trojan War, depicting them as life long lovers. Good and gay.

That’s what I’ve got so far, let me know if there’s a specific type of book you like and I can try to think of some more recommendations. Hope this helps!

#put under a read more because this is long #thanks! I had fun writing this #Anonymous

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New top story from Time: The 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2020

For the publishing industry, the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic meant that many books slated for spring and summer of this year were moved to the fall. Now, the last months of 2020 will feature an abundance of new work from some of the world’s most celebrated authors. There’s Elena Ferrante’s first novel in five years, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami’s searing new nonfiction, Margaret Atwood’s latest poetry collection and Marilynne Robinson’s return to the world of Gilead. Readers will also be introduced to emerging voices like Susie Yang and Dolores Reyes. Their stories of heartbreak, humor and hope will guide us through the end of the year. Here, the most anticipated books of fall 2020.

Short stories

Likes, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (Sept. 1)

In the titular story of Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s electric collection, a father tries to make sense of his 12-year-old daughter through examining her Instagram posts. The narrative captures the tensions that exist between technology, parenthood and growing up—all of which are revisited throughout the different stories in Likes. The nine pieces, though rooted in reality, contain unexpected undercurrents of magic, coalescing into an innovative portrait of modern living.

Buy Now: Likes on Bookshop | Amazon

Daddy: Stories, Emma Cline (Sept. 1)

In 2016, Emma Cline made her debut with The Girls, an explosive coming-of-age novel inspired by the Manson family that found a spot on many best of the year lists. Her follow-up is a quieter, but still haunting exploration of how we interact with one another. The 10 short stories that comprise Daddy range in subject, from a celebrity family’s nanny recovering from a scandal to a father who must pick up his son at boarding school after he’s been expelled. Throughout, Cline asks how familial units are constructed—and illustrates how quickly they can fall apart.

Buy Now: Daddy on Bookshop | Amazon

To Be a Man: Stories, Nicole Krauss (Nov. 3)

Novelist Nicole Krauss is known for stories that cross generations, time periods and continents. Her first short-story collection, the luminous To Be a Man, serves up sharply drawn slices of individual human experience. Over 10 stories, a diverse set of characters come to terms with sexuality, maturity and identity.

Buy Now: To Be a Man on Bookshop | Amazon

Realistic fiction

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi (Sept. 1)

At the center of Yaa Gyasi’s follow-up to her celebrated 2016 debut Homegoing is Gifty, a Ghanaian-American neuroscientist. After her brother died of a heroin overdose as a teenager, Gifty dedicated her life to understanding addiction. In Transcendent Kingdom, she is catapulted back to their shared youth, and the time she spent at her family’s Evangelical church. Gyasi’s timely novel offers reflection on the relationships between science, faith, grief and love.

Buy Now: Transcendent Kingdom on Bookshop | Amazon

A Girl is A Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Sept. 1)

It’s 1970s Uganda. Idi Amin is in power, and a curious girl named Kirabo, raised by her grandmother in a small village, is just discovering what it means to grow up. In lyrical prose, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi renders Kirabo’s coming-of-age tale as a tender depiction of evolving womanhood, self-awareness in a tight-knit community and the path back to family and history.

Buy Now: A Girl is A Body of Water on Bookshop | Amazon

His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie (Sept. 1)

Afi, a young seamstress in a small Ghanaian town, must contend with cultural mores and her family’s expectations when she’s offered a marriage proposal by a wealthy suitor. When her new husband sends a stand-in to their wedding and she begins living married life alone in the bustling capital of Accra, Afi sees that her marriage is not what she anticipated. But soon she begins to wonder if this unconventional union may be the key to gaining the freedom she’s always dreamed of.

Buy Now: His Only Wife on Bookshop | Amazon

Monogamy, Sue Miller (Sept. 8)

For almost three decades, Annie shared a life with her husband Graham. In Sue Miller’s latest novel, Graham suddenly dies, leaving Annie unsure of how to go on living. Hers is a quiet but heartbreaking dilemma, which is made all the more difficult when Annie discovers that Graham had been unfaithful during their marriage. In Monogamy, Annie is prompted to find the answers to an unsettling question: Who was her husband, really?

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What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez (Sept. 8)

The latest novel from Sigrid Nunez shares several themes with her 2018 National Book Award winner The Friend. In both, Nunez contemplates how we write and talk about death, love and friendship. What Are You Going Through follows a middle-aged writer through a series of interactions with various people in her life, from her pretentious ex to an Airbnb host. But when her terminally ill friend makes an unthinkable request, the narrator is forced to reckon with her definitions of living and dying. Nunez crafts an aching look into the ways people can support one another through crisis.

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Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar (Sept. 15)

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar examines the intersection of identity and politics through a story that closely resembles his own experiences as the son of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan living in the U.S. The novel’s narrator, who is also named Ayad Akhtar, struggles to make sense of his place in a country that is fractured by fear and hate. Through the eight chapters of Homeland Elegies, Akhtar weaves together a stunning narrative on the barriers to belonging in Trump-era America.

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Jack, Marilynne Robinson (Sept. 29)

Marilynne Robinson makes her triumphant return to the world of Gilead, Iowa in the fourth installment of her acclaimed series. Jack’s titular character is the white adult son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and has fallen in love with a Black high school teacher. An agonizing push and pull of power and love ensues, as two people fight to be together despite objections from family members. Through this blistering story of an interracial romance, Robinson once again mines the intricacies and complications of American life.

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Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam (Oct. 6)

It’s summertime in Long Island, where Brooklynites Amanda and Clay are vacationing with their teenage children. The home they rent is perfect—marble countertops in the kitchen, French doors to the deck, a pool out back—except its owners show up in the middle of the night during their stay. There’s no power in New York City, and Ruth and G.H. didn’t feel safe in their apartment, so they trekked to their vacation home, which now has no internet or cell service. What begins as a luxurious getaway spirals into a hellish fever dream as the families live together, cut off from the rest of the world, unsure of who to trust and desperate for information about what’s going on outside their shared walls.

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Memorial, Bryan Washington (Oct. 27)

Benson is a Black daycare teacher living in Houston with his boyfriend Mike, a Japanese-American chef. Though they’ve shared a home for a few years, the longevity of their relationship is shaky at best when Mike learns his father is dying. Mike decides to go see him in Osaka—just as his mother shows up in town for a visit. Now, Benson is forced to share his living space with a woman he just met while her son is halfway around the world. Memorial follows the duo on their separate journeys, where they begin to understand the place they hold in each other’s lives.

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White Ivy, Susie Yang (Nov. 3)

Ivy Lin has a crush. But as a conflicted teen, torn between her multi-generational Chinese family’s expectations and her desire to assimilate into the culture of their adopted home of Boston, Ivy’s crush becomes a turning point. In a suspenseful debut from Susie Yang, Ivy’s coming-of-age story is complicated by the power of her ambition and the meaning of her past.

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Translation

The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (Sept. 1)

Twelve-year-old Giovanna has never met her aunt Vittoria. Her parents hate the woman—Giovanna has grown up listening to them call Vittoria cruel and ugly. It’s no surprise then that Giovanna’s world is completely rocked when she overhears her father compare her to the sister whom he despises. In her first novel translated to English in five years, Elena Ferrante follows Giovanna on a wrenching path of self-discovery as the young protagonist decides to find her aunt in an effort to learn more about herself. One of the most anticipated books of the year, The Lying Life of Adults demonstrates Ferrante’s superb ability to capture the anxieties and complications of adolescence.

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Earthlings, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori) (Oct. 6)

Japanese author Sayaka Murata’s previous novel, Convenience Store Woman, offered one of the most original and striking narratives of the last few years, at once eerie and comforting in its depiction of a devoted worker in one of Japan’s ubiquitous convenience shops. Her new novel promises another original premise, following a girl who begins to wonder if she’s an alien after her cousin reveals that he is one. It’s a novel about belonging, changing how we see the world and the struggle against easy conformity.

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The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada (trans. David Boyd) (Oct. 6)

Hiroko Oyamada’s 2014 novel, The Hole, will reach English readers this fall with a new translation by David Boyd. The book centers on the darkly fantastical adventures of Asa, a bored Japanese housewife, after she tumbles into a hole on the grassy knoll of a river embankment and meets strange creatures and outlandish characters. If the plot feels reminiscent of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, know that Alice’s surreal dream is more like a horrific nightmare for Asa, who must confront whether her sanity is at stake as her circumstances grow more and more bizarre.

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Genre fiction

Red Pill, Hari Kunzru (Sept. 1)

Hari Kunzru’s work is marked by a dogged pursuit of truth, an element that’s readily apparent in his latest novel, Red Pill. The book’s unnamed narrator, a Brooklyn-based writer going through a midlife crisis, decamps to Berlin for a fellowship, leaving behind his family and home for the chance to produce writing of value. His new environment, however, proves to be more disturbing than inspirational, leading him to question everything he knows and values—including his own sanity.

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The Searcher, Tana French (Oct. 6)

Midwestern detective Cal relocates to western Ireland to find some peace after a bad divorce. But instead of settling into retirement, Cal finds himself swept up into one last case involving a local teen and his missing brother. Tana French, the author of best-selling crime thrillers including the Dublin Murder Squad series, takes this standalone novel at a measured pace, easing readers into Cal’s quiet life before the thrills unravel.

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Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Oct. 13)

With Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse kicks off a new trilogy set in a universe inspired by the pre-Columbian Americas and thick with mythology and magic. Roanhorse, who has won awards for sci-fi writing and contributions to the Star Wars series, builds a world featuring beasts, mermaids and deeply human characters on a quest for survival.

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The Arrest, Jonathan Lethem (Nov. 10)

From his detective fiction with Motherless Brooklyn to his evocative writing about childhood in Brooklyn in The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem has demonstrated a chameleon-like ability to take on different forms and subjects. His new novel promises a turn into a post-apocalyptic future, where technology has stopped functioning and the U.S. has been torn apart. In this reality, a former Los Angeles screenwriter living on a farm in Maine confronts a college classmate who is traveling across the country in a nuclear-powered car.

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The Kingdom, Jo Nesbø (Nov. 10)

For mystery readers in search of a darker hero than Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, enter Norway’s Jo Nesbø and the admirably effective—and occasionally alcoholic—Inspector Harry Hole. The Kingdom, Nesbø’s latest installment with Hole, sees the detective peeling back layers of unnerving secrets surrounding a pair of brothers in Oslo, from their parents’ mysterious deaths to their family’s disturbing history and the secrets of their hometown.

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Eartheater, Dolores Reyes (Nov. 17)

In Dolores Reyes’ debut novel, a young woman in Argentina is given a rare if terrifying gift: the ability to see visions of lives lost when she eats dirt. She first encounters her powers following her mother’s death; upon impulsively tasting soil, she learns the real and shattering truth about her mother’s passing. In a series of beautifully haunting moments, the woman’s newfound gift becomes the vehicle for those around her to confront the traumas surrounding the mysterious losses of their loved ones.

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Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline (Nov. 24)

Ernest Cline’s 2011 sci-fi adventure Ready Player One became a best-seller, a prophetic vision of a technology-fueled dystopian future and a Steven Spielberg blockbuster. The sequel arrives nearly a decade later and promises more action and even more predictions about what happens when the real and virtual worlds inevitably meld.

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Poetry

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song, Kevin Young (Editor) (Oct. 13)

One of the U.S.’s most talented poets, Kevin Young is the perfect guide to reconstruct the American canon. His sweeping anthology of African-American poetry across U.S. history is an exhilarating collection of voices that have helped shape the country, many of whom never got their full due. By including new forms and overlooked schools, Young’s anthology promises to rewrite the history of American verse.

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Dearly: New Poems, Margaret Atwood (Nov. 10)

While Margaret Atwood is best known for novels like The Handmaid’s Tale, readers would be remiss to forget that her writing career began with poetry. Atwood’s new book—her first collection of poems in over a decade—is a good reminder of her mastery of the craft. In Dearly, Atwood’s inspirations run the gamut from the intoxicating pleasures of nature to the fantastical goings-on of zombies, but the themes are grounded in the familiar: love, loss, desire and the inevitability of time passing. Atwood blurs the lines of what we know and asks us instead to give credence to what we feel.

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Memoir

Eat a Peach, David Chang (Sept. 8)

The affecting memoir from chef and Momofuku founder David Chang details his path to culinary success amid his struggles with bipolar disorder. In Eat a Peach, Chang opens up about growing up as a Korean-American kid in Virginia, where he battled a mental illness that he only began to understand years later. In vulnerable and honest terms, Chang puts these experiences into the context of his life and career, delving into the chaos of working in a kitchen and outlining his rise to cooking stardom.

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Let Love Rule, Lenny Kravitz (Oct. 6)

Rock ‘n’ roll icon Lenny Kravitz looks back on his first 25 years in Let Love Rule, his memoir co-written with songwriter and biographer David Ritz. With roots in New York and Los Angeles, Kravitz narrates the story of a colorful youth spent exploring music, discovering his passions and coming to terms with his star power before signing his first record deal.

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Is This Anything?, Jerry Seinfeld (Oct. 6)

Longtime Seinfeld viewers will know that Jerry always opened his hit sitcom with a stand-up set. Is This Anything, the comedian’s first book in 25 years, is the written version of sets like those and more, seeing him spell out jokes on subjects from airplane bathrooms to the pitfalls of being left-handed. These are his best “bits,” in chronological order from 1975 onward. And beyond his dry humor, they trace the development of one man’s distinctive (and wildly successful) craft.

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Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, Christie Tate (Oct. 27)

Popular blogger Christie Tate is no stranger to looking to her personal life for writing material, but her debut memoir about her years participating in a psychotherapy group takes it to the next level with fearless candor and vulnerability. In Group, Tate revisits how group therapy changed her life by forcing her to be radically honest about everything from her former eating disorder to her childhood traumas. She reflects on the group of strangers who helped her to find connection and intimacy with others, and perhaps most importantly, with herself.

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One Life, Megan Rapinoe (Nov. 10)

Megan Rapinoe became a household name thanks to her winning performances in the 2016 Olympics and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup as a star of the U.S. women’s soccer team. Her defiant insistence on standing up for pay equity and her visibility as an LGBTQ icon and ally have only reinforced her stature. In One Life, Rapinoe traces her roots in conservative California, her journey with soccer and her growth into a social justice leader.

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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael J. Fox (Nov. 17)

Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 29, Michael J. Fox has fueled his advocacy work surrounding Parkinson’s with his trademark optimism—an element that was undeniably apparent in his first two memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up. In Fox’s new memoir, No Time Like the Future, the actor and activist re-evaluates his sunny outlook on life in light of new health challenges. Filled with humorous and thoughtful anecdotes and reflections, the book offers insights into a man who knows struggle all too well, but refuses to let it get in the way of living.

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Essays and journalism

Having and Being Had, Eula Biss (Sept. 1)

“What does it say about capitalism that we have money and want to spend it but we can’t find anything worth buying?” The question comes from Eula Biss’ husband as the two search for furniture for their first home. The answer is undoubtedly complicated, and one that Biss rips apart in her sharp collection of essays fixated on class, privilege and how we assign value. From how her son trades Pokémon cards to mass reliance on IKEA, Biss underlines the uncomfortable truths that accompany American consumerism.

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Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine (Sept. 8)

Claudia Rankine has been writing about injustice and Black oppression for years, most notably in 2014’s Citizen. That multidisciplinary book was written partially in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin, and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Her timely follow-up, Just Us, weaves together poetry, personal essays, historical documents and more to explore how the dominance of whiteness hovers over every aspect of American life, from corporate culture to classrooms to hair color.

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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, Laila Lalami (Sept. 22)

Moroccan-born author Laila Lalami became a U.S. citizen in 2000, just before national upheaval brought about extreme prejudice against people who looked like her. Astute and timely, Conditional Citizen uses Lalami’s personal journey as a jumping-off point to illustrate the dangers and challenges that whole segments of U.S. society continue to face on a daily basis: assimilation, xenophobia and the ongoing threat of white supremacy.

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Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Peterson (Sept. 22)

Last year, Anne Helen Peterson illuminated the realities of millennial burnout in a piece for Buzzfeed that went viral. Now, she follows up on her reporting with a book that explains how that burnout got to be so bad. In dissecting how workplaces have evolved, along with the pressures that come from social media, Peterson continues to address the increasingly impossible expectations that millennials face.

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One Last Song: Conversations on Life, Death, and Music, Mike Ayers (Oct. 13)

If you could listen to one last song before you died, what would it be—and why? That’s the slightly morbid yet endlessly entertaining question journalist Mike Ayers posed to 30 musicians, ranging from jazz legend Sonny Rollins to activist and rapper Killer Mike, in his debut book. The answers to this seemingly simple query vary widely (and are helpfully aided by charming illustrations), but all provide insight into the deeply personal ways music helps us make sense of our time on earth.

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Politics, history and activism

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action, Jane Fonda (Sept. 8)

“When you’re famous,” actor Jane Fonda writes, “there are so many ways to lift issues and amplify voices. God knows I’ve done it before to varying degrees of success.” Since last year, the lifelong activist has been leading “Fire Drill Fridays,” a weekly climate change protest in Washington, D.C., lately transformed into a virtual event series. Her new book What Can I Do? is a history of that project, a basic education on the impact of climate change on our planet and an outline of actions that like-minded readers can take. With information and sidebars from scientists and fellow celebrities, Fonda’s book is a pointed use of her platform.

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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Jill Lepore (Sept. 15)

One of the U.S.’s most acclaimed historians follows her bestselling, sweeping history of the country, These Truths, with a book about the origins of Big Data. Jill Lepore tells the story of how a group of social scientists created a new company in 1959 that claimed to analyze, predict and sway public opinion. Before they collapsed in 1970, they were used by everyone from John F. Kennedy Jr., for his presidential campaign, to major companies. In unearthing their story, Lepore finds resonant echoes today with controversies around Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and election security.

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Rage, Bob Woodward (Sept. 15)

We don’t know much about fabled Washington reporter Bob Woodward’s follow-up to Fear, his first book about the Trump Administration. But reports that Trump spoke to Woodward 17 times for Rage promise an informed look inside the White House just weeks before the election. Whatever Woodward reveals, there is no doubt that this will be one of the most talked about—and contested—political books of the season.

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The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity, Andrew Gelwicks (Oct. 13)

This collection of interviews from fashion stylist and writer Andrew Gelwicks feels less like a book of tips from queer power players and more like a series of intimate chats between good friends—that is, if your good friends were LGBTQ+ icons like George Takei, Adam Rippon and Margaret Cho. Offering deeply affecting anecdotes from queer leaders and the life lessons they learned in real time in the worlds of business, tech, sports, entertainment and more, The Queer Advantage encourages readers to find power in their identities.

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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, Alicia Garza (Oct. 20)

In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote a Facebook post that she called “a love letter to Black people,” which went viral after the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted. Garza’s powerful words about why Black lives matter soon became a rallying cry—and the hashtag—for one of her generation’s most pivotal movements. But before Garza co-founded Black Lives Matter, she had done nearly two decades of organizing, a time when she learned how change really happens, encountering plenty of challenges along the way. In her new book, The Purpose of Power, Garza shares her insights and the lessons she’s taken to heart from the frontlines of Black Lives Matter and beyond, providing a guide for anyone who’s ready to take action to create the world they want to live in.

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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo (Dec. 1)

Ijeoma Oluo’s sharp yet accessible writing about the American racial landscape made her 2018 book, So You Want to Talk About Race, an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand and dismantle racist structures. Her new book, Mediocre, builds on this exemplary work, homing in on the role of white patriarchy in creating and upholding a system built to disenfranchise anyone who isn’t a white male.

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