Elizabeth Wurtzel, who chronicled her struggles with depression and drug addiction in best-selling memoirs that helped spur a boom in confessional writing, turning her into a Gen X touchstone at 27 with the publication of “Prozac Nation,” died Jan. 7 at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 52… Support our news coverage by subscribing to … Read more
It’s official: E.L. James has the decade’s biggest book with Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James’s irresistibly salacious novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which morphed from web-published fan fiction into a blockbuster book and movie franchise, is the bestselling book in the U.S. book market over the past decade, according to NPD BookScan… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right … Read more
A recap of 2019’s literary movie box office bombs, from The Goldfinch to Motherless Brooklyn.
Turning a beloved book into a movie is always a perilous endeavor says Paula Bernstein from Fortune. So often, fans of the source material are disappointed by the results… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! In 2019, star-studded feature film adaptations of three bestselling … Read more
5 Book Charities to support this holiday season
If you’re wondering what the heck you’re going to get for the reader in your life, maybe try donating to one of these book charities instead… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Whichever of these book charities you choose, know that you’re making a … Read more
Want to work for Bill Gates? Read these two books first
by Cory Stieg from CNBC Bill Gates is passionate about reading and recommending books he finds particularly thought-provoking… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! During an Oct. 2 speech at his alma mater Lakeside School, the Seattle high school where he met Microsoft co-founder … Read more
Why has this bizarre Miller-Austen mashup been ignored or disremembered?”
Arthur Miller’s little-known adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
It is a truth universally unacknowledged that American playwright Arthur Miller adapted Pride and Prejudice in 1945, according to Janine Barchas from Los Angeles Review of Books… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! In the Theatre Guild Archive of the Harry Ransom Center in … Read more
How Mary Roberts Rinehart, queen of American crime fiction, barely survived a murder mystery of her own
Mary Roberts Rinehart was the grande dame of American crime fiction, at the height of her powers, when she fell into a murder mystery of her own according to Sarah Weinman from CrimeReads… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! Late in the morning of … Read more
Richard Wright wrote a thriller? The strange tale of Wright’s lost crime novel.
In 1954, at the height of his fame, Richard Wright published a thriller with a white psychotic hero. The literary world did not approve according to Michael Gonzales from Crime Reads… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now! While Richard Wright was known as a … Read more