Cormac McCarthy’s Valentine Day Candy Hearts
Cormac McCarthy’s Valentine Day Candy Hearts
“Everywhere the dying groan and the horses lay screaming.” And this isn’t even the bleakest Cormac McCarthy Valentine Candy Heart.
Sexily ever after: how romance bookstores took over America
With a total of nine, with a few more trying to open by the end of this year, I am not sure this constitutes “taking over America.” Still, there is room to run: stores dedicated to mysteries/thrillers and stores dedicated to comics have been around for decades. Sci-fi and fantasy too for that matter. So are romance bookstores taking over, or just catching up?
Terry McMillan Partners With Lifetime for Slate of New Original Movies
This seems to be an exceedingly smart idea, and one I think other channels/platforms might consider adopting. Peacock could have a similar deal with Gillian Flynn. Maybe Amazon Prime and Andy Weir. Give people who do genre stories at the highest level an on-going funnel.
The most romantic ways to say ‘I love you’, from the romance experts
ELLIOTT: So have a happy Valentine’s Day, no matter how you say it or what you do about it.
I Will Never Get Tired of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet
I didn’t write this ode to Romeo + Juliet (how hip is that little cross for the &/and?), but I certainly could have.
The “It” Books of the Week
Here are my picks for the ‘it’ books of the week. And it is going to be a squidge awkward. You’ll understand why:
Fiction
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Look, I didn’t know that this was the sponsor today. And I certainly didn’t know it yesterday when I delayed doing the picks because of COVID-related fogginess. But, if editorial independence really does mean forging ahead despite the advertiser, it means I can pick Link’s debut novel without shame. My pre-order came yesterday, and the early buzz has turned into wonderful initial reactions. Endlessly inventive, fundamentally humane, and predictably surprising, Link is just the kind of writer I want to see tackle a love story, perhaps the most hidebound of all story types. So, so excited for this.
Nonfiction
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
We still don’t have as many insider accounts of the salad days of Silicon Valley as we should, and while Private Equity is more Wall Street than Sand Hill Road, it is a welcome addition to the largely white and male corpus of the “I sold my soul and it you would not believe the perks” memoirs. This is going in my ears just as soon as I finish writing this sentence.
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