Worldwide rights to the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest, Atmosphere, have been claimed by Black Bear Pictures. The distribution news dropped late last week. Black Bear, by the way, is the production company behind the Train Dreams adaptation…and Wicker. If you’re just catching up, here’s everything we know about the Atmosphere adaptation so far:…
The Traitors is back! Traitors: New Blood is now airing on NBC and Peacock, and the cast for the new celebrity Traitors season was just announced. As a lover of all things creepy, I truly believe that The Traitors is the ultimate way to usher in the creepy fall season. It’s intensely atmospheric. It keeps…
Doing your own research matters, but so, too, does checking your sources when you do that work. Source checking is a crucial skill, but it can be difficult, even for folks who are well-versed in it. The good news is you can always learn new techniques, and one of the most valuable tools at your…
The Choose Your Own Adventure series is getting an imprint for adults. CYOA Unbound will be the first imprint “dedicated to publishing nonlinear, multiple-ending gamebooks for adults.” The inaugural lineup, out fall 2027, includes: An interactive Pride and Prejudice, which needs no introduction, retold by C. Davitt Bell (Little Blog on the Prairie) Culty by…
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Florida does not maintain a state-sanctioned book ban list because it is not part of the state’s laws governing school and school library materials. But now, for the second year in a row, Florida’s Commissioner of Education is demanding schools across the state ban more books. The directive, sent to every public school and charter…
Former President and forever Reader-in-Chief Barack Obama’s podcast, A Great Book, dropped today on Audible. Each of the six episodes in the limited series features Obama in conversation a different thinker/writer/artist about a book that has “profoundly shaped his worldview and our society.” In the debut episode, Obama sits down with Tom Hanks to discuss…
We’ve made it well past the halfway point of September. For those of you involved in the school year in some capacity–as an educator, student, parent, or otherwise–hopefully this first month has been good. As we cross the seasonal line into fall, here’s hoping that if you’ve had a sweltering summer, the weather feels a…
This post is inspired by a recent memory I had of a phone video game a friend used to play 20 years ago: Katamari Damacy Mobile. The idea was to roll a ball around, and the ball would pick up items as it went along, collecting more and more. It wasn’t slime, but it obviously…
If the term “mushroomcore” instantly brings an image to mind, you already understand its essence. Much like its aesthetic cousins, cottagecore and goblincore, it evokes the cozy, slightly witchy elements of forests, critters, twilight, lush greenery, and thatched-roof cottages. As a child of the ’90s, I used to associate anything ending in “-core” with hardness,…