Ayoung girl documents her escape from a flooded and now uninhabitable New York City. After the progressive decline of the World As It Was—“Storms always came. They took things”—13-year-old Nonie is adjusting to life in what remains of New York, most of the city and its people now gone. Nonie is part of a group…
Molly Jong-Fast stopped by Good Morning America to discuss her new memoir. The journalist and podcaster’s How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir was published Tuesday by Viking. The book tells the story of Jong-Fast’s relationship with her mother, Fear of Flying author Erica Jong, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2023, the same year Jong-Fast’s husband learned he had a…
Issa Rae’s second book of essays is coming later this year, People magazine reports. Amazon will publish the actor and producer’s I Should Be Smarter Now in the summer. The book will contain six essays about Rae’s experiences in Hollywood. Rae rose to fame with her YouTube series, The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, which premiered in 2011 and ran for…
Adrianna Cuevas has been entertaining young readers for years with her delightfully spooky horror novels; past outings feature ghosts, zombies, and a witch. Now, in her latest book, What Fell From the Sky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 11), aliens take center stage in a gripping and timely story that calls back to classic science fiction. “Alien is one of my…
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Eliza Jane Brazier’s Girls and Their Horses is headed to the small screen, with Nicole Kidman on board to star, Variety reports. Brazier’s novel, published in 2023 by Berkley, follows a wealthy Southern California family that becomes involved in the cutthroat world of equestrian showjumping. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Brazier makes us feel for her…
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