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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Each episode of Netflix‘s One Day takes place on July 15 of successive years, from 1988 through 2007. Each year, we check in on the evolving relationship between idle rich boy Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall) and the more serious-minded Emma Morley (Ambika Mod), who start out as would-be lovers, instead …
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It’s a commonly known fact: everyone loves a wedding. Even if you say you don’t, there’s a good chance your affection for nuptials has been buried by the cost of flights, deciphering the dress code (what does “dressy casual” even mean?), or worse, having to attend a plethora of wallet-draining …
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It doesn’t take long for the new Netflix/A24 documentary The Deepest Breath to let you know an ill wind is blowing. “I accepted that she was doing a dangerous thing,” intones the father of Alessia Zecchini, one of the world’s elite freedivers. “Extreme sports have extreme consequences,” says the father …
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Nothing stays the same forever. Not even summer. It’s a fact most people have to come to terms with on their own time, but in The Summer I Turned Pretty’s second season, rapid-fire change drags its characters along kicking and screaming, whether they’re ready or not. Fans of the show …
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He lives in New York, she in LA. She has a home, shared with her 13-year-old son, that feels remarkably homey: lived-in and warm and deliberately modest in size, helplessly convincing us of its innate coziness. He lives in a steely Brooklyn apartment with a view of Manhattan that’s furnished …
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Move over leading men. One of the biggest mediums in TikTok’s book community has a different romantic north star, doubling down on the tall, handsome, and extremely dark. Introducing: the Monster-Fuckers. There are dozens of online fandoms dedicated to romance and erotica. But on BookTok, authors who write romance books …
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