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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There’s a period in every relationship you might call the “supernova” phase — when everything is fresh and new, the attraction and lust burn blindingly bright, and you can’t get enough of each other. The couple at the center of Oh, Hi! are a textbook example of this Paleolithic period …
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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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XO, Kitty fans start your engines. The Netflix original and To All the Boys spinoff series returns for a second season on Jan. 16 — and Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal a first look at both the soundtrack and several key images from the new episodes. While author Jenny Han‘s …
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