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Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have teamed with Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli to acquire screen rights for An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

At least there is now The Woman Who Knew Everyone, a proper new biography by the journalist Meryl Gordon, who has made a specialty of moneyed matrons.

Patrick Radden Keefe talks about his book, which has now been adapted into an FX mini-series.

(Illustration The New York Times) From www.nytimes.com: The 10 Best Books of 2024: The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar "The poet Kaveh Akbar turns a grieving young man’s search for meaning into a piercing family saga... What Akbar pulls off in Martyr! is nothing short of miraculous." —The New York Times Book Review Cyrus Shams, an Iranian American aspiring poet and recovering drug addict, wallows in a post-college malaise in a fictional Midwestern town. He’s working dead-end jobs and halfheartedly attending A.A., while grieving his parents’ deaths

Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, receiving a 2023 National Humanities Medal

2025 writer Kaveh Akbar is a National Book Award Finalist for his debut novel, Martyr!

Rita Braver was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle for her work as a national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning

James McBride's latest novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which follows the Black and Jewish residents of a Pennsylvania town in the early 20th century, hit a milestone: Since its release last summer, it has sold more than a million copies. Most authors are lucky to sell 10,000 books.