It’s a great time to be into fanfiction. The space is currently in the throes of a digital gold rush for content seekers and creators. There’s something for everyone, about practically anything. But fanfiction, long a force in the corners of the internet that managed to escape the commercial monotony …
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The project that changed Julia Whelan’s life was a huge success and one of her biggest frustrations all at the same time: Gillian Flynn’s 2012 crime novel Gone Girl. Flynn’s tale following professor Nick Dunne and the mysterious disappearance of his wife Amy was a New York Times bestseller and …
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When Formula 1 racers sit in the driver’s seat of a professional car, they’re pulling all of their skills, training, and focus to speeding a custom-made vehicle close to 200 miles per hour down a track — pushing the limits of their body and a turbocharged engine toward a crowded …
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Before Kennedy Ryan was a New York Times bestselling romance author, she was an eighth grader in a rural North Carolina town hiding harlequin romances wherever she could fit them in her room. “It was the age of the cliche covers. You know, the kissing couple on the front,” Ryan …
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At times of political and cultural upset, literature has often been a way for society to process, understand, and push back against unethical policies or administrations. Many of the most well known books are direct political statements, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and Harper Lee’s To …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A viral BookTok hit is now a hit movie on Prime Video, with the release of My Fault: London. Based on the first book in Spanish author Mercedes …
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When Brynne Weaver first released her novel Butcher & Blackbird, she was on a fact finding mission in the self-publishing world. The author had started with fantasy, then moved into paranormal, and then contemporary dark romance— all with the express purpose of laying the groundwork for her eventual big hit. …
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BookTok, TikTok’s book community, is a side of the video app that revels in the far reaches of what the reading world can offer. There’s a section for everyone: comedy, lit-fit, science fiction, celebrity memoir, body horror, smutty fantasy, sports romances, and even sexy stories about women falling in lust …
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“Here we are, many years and pronouns later!” The greeting that author Casey McQuiston throws me on a breezy summer afternoon over martinis is both a cheeky welcome and a pitch-perfect description of their highly anticipated third adult romance novel, The Pairing. The book, which will be released Aug. 6, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Have we come up with a name yet for Emily Henry fans? Hen-heads? E-readers? Book Lovers? Regardless of the title, lovers of Henry’s swoon-heavy romance novels have a …
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