From Entertainment Weekly: Susan Orlean explains her drunken viral Twitter thread, candy-coated fennel seeds and the comfort of cats… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free! Longtime New Yorker writer Susan Orlean has delighted readers with her articles and books, including the 2000 tome The Orchid Thief, which … Read more
From The Guardian: Someone has written a prequel to The Great Gatsby and it’s coming next year… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free! Nick Carraway, last seen at the end of The Great Gatsby contemplating the futility of trying to move beyond our past, is set to … Read more
From Reuters: The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between $350K and $1 million… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. … Read more
From The New Yorker: In an era that fetishizes form, Joyce Carol Oates has become America’s preëminent fiction writer by doing everything you’re not supposed to do…. Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free! In Joyce Carol Oates’s novel “Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My … Read more
Stephen King has revealed that he once wanted to write a book from the perspective of Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked murderer from the Friday the 13th franchise, according to Adele Ankers from IGN.com… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Taking to Twitter on Sunday, the … Read more
Donations to the NAACP, National Urban League, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and UNCF, among others, seek to support education and justice for Black communities across the U.S…. Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! The inequitable and brutal treatment of Black and African Americans is unacceptable. … Read more
Amazon Targets Fall for Prime Day as it Tries to Return to Pre-Pandemic Operations according John Bowden from The Hill… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Amazon is moving its annual “Prime Day” sales event to the fall as many Americans are feeling financial pressure … Read more
Here’s what you need to know about The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes, according to Carly Mallenbaum from USA Today… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! If you read the “Hunger Games” books, you know the character Coriolanus Snow as the dictatorial president of Panem … Read more