What To Know Good Morning America‘s Lara Spencer recently hung out with Today‘s Jenna Bush Hager. Spencer shared snaps from their mahjong group’s game night via social media. Spencer and Bush Hager are just two of the morning show hosts who are friends off the small screen. Two of morning TV’s biggest stars share a
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Welcome to Blue Ridge, a small town that may look like a sleepy little burg, but beneath the surface, it’s fueled by enough strife, squabbles, and suppressed hostilities to power a big city for days. Now, fans will not have to wait much longer to see what happens next on Blue Ridge: The Series, as
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When Rush announced its Fifty Something tour, fans began to ask one very important question: who could sit behind the drum kit after Neil Peart? Peart, who died in 2020, was Rush’s longtime drummer and lyricist for many years and was extremely beloved by the band’s fans. Now, for Rush’s first tour since 2015, Geddy
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It takes a skilled singer-songwriter to turn everyday scenes and moods into enchantment. To do that work while neither romanticizing nor vilifying—to let the mundane be mundane and to appreciate it for that—takes an expert. On their new self-titled release, Brooklyn-based Wendy Eisenberg is that expert. They strike a perfect balance: each track is a
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Matt Evans loves creating musical landscapes that seem mysterious but are imbued with a sound that’s curious and welcoming. The New York-based drummer, composer, and experimentalist mixed warm, unique melodies against synths and percussion on records like New Topographics (2020) and Soft Science (2022), and created calmer, more ambient soundscapes on touchless (2021) has once
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What To Know Kaitlin Olson announced the passing of her father, Don Olson, on Instagram, sharing an emotional tribute. In her post, Olson described her father as her “first love, first protector, and forever favorite person.’ Friends and co-stars, including husband Rob McElhenney, offered heartfelt condolences. High Potential star Kaitlin Olson is grieving the loss
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Book lovers with kids in their lives can’t help but be choosy about what books to place into the hands of young readers. We linger over fuzzy first memories of books, how they shaped our imaginations, how we thumbed through them time and time again, and how we lovingly and literally made our mark on
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When you send an unsolicited book of essays to a small nonprofit publisher, you’re probably not expecting it to become one of the biggest word-of-mouth sensations of the 21st century so far. But that’s the story behind today’s Zero to Well-Read subject, and no one was more surprised by this turn of events than its
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The Dinner Party by Cat Fitzpatrick (Trans Woman Verse Novel) Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher (Queer Fiction) (Rerelease) Canon by Paige Lewis (Nonbinary Fiction) The Body Riddle by Sam K MacKinnon (Nonbinary, Polyamorous Fiction) Returns and Exchanges by Kayla Rae Whitaker (Sapphic Fiction) Take Me with You by Steven Rowley (Queer Guy Speculative Fiction) The
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Unless you’re Indigenous, you’re to some degree a child of empire. Actually, even if you’re Indigenous, unless you belong to an isolated tribe somehow untouched by the outside world, your personal and shared histories have been affected by imperialism. Some of us are privileged enough not to think about how large forces, such as imperialism,
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May is a fun month for new releases as the publishing world gears up for summer. But what do you do when your holds lists are increasing and patrons are still coming to the desk to ask about the buzziest books? Offer readalikes, of course! Here are three new releases your patrons are hearing about,
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Blackstone Publishing and Monica Murphy When an heiress’s summer romance goes up in flames, she finds herself in need of a job and a place to stay. The one thing she doesn’t need is another failed romance—but things are heating up quick with the town’s smoldering fire captain. When Sparks Fly is a swoony small-town
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Last week felt like the Week of Comics. We released our list of the best comics of the century so far, and Comic-Con announced the nominees for the 38th annual Eisner Awards. It looks like we’re bringing a tinge of that energy into this week with a graphic adaptation of the megabestselling LitRPG. More on
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