The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 3
Hardcover fiction 1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday:...
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s savage nickname for Winona Ryder revealed: book
Gwyneth Paltrow’s alleged nasty nickname for Winona Ryder was revealed in Amy Odell’s bombshell new biography about the Goop founder, titled “Gwyneth.” Paltrow allegedly started calling her ex-pal “Vagina Ryder”...
A Novelist’s Cure for the ‘Loneliness Epidemic’
In the summer of 2018, I found myself enraptured by the television show Pose, a first-of-its-kind drama that featured a cast of Black and brown transgender performers. Much of the...
These L.A. moms solved a cold case murder. It ‘revolutionized’ their lives
“The Carpool Detectives,” a true crime mystery that reads like a novel, begins in the liminal moment before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the country and concludes on an upbeat...
How ‘Jeopardy!’ whiz Ken Jennings learned to make ‘Kennections’ everywhere and why he fears AI
Ken Jennings wants you to know he didn’t name his trivia game “Kennections.” “It’s really an unpleasant name,” the “Jeopardy!” champion turned host says of the quizzes now published weekly...
Dad recalls horrific moment 10-year-old son was attacked by shark in Florida: ‘I heard the screaming’
It was a sunny August Saturday when Mary and Jameson Reeder took a boat nine miles out into Looe Key Reef with their four children, for a day of swimming...
Marilyn Monroe ‘could be trouble,’ Jackie Kennedy warned JFK: author
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It is widely believed that Jackie Kennedy was no stranger to President John F. Kennedy’s infidelities. But when it came to Marilyn...
The Pleasures of Reading Outside
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Ed Park drops clues like ‘Barbie’ throughout ‘An Oral History of Atlantis’
Realism may still command the heights of American fiction, but insurgents are in it to win it. With titans such as Pynchon and DeLillo in their late 80s, now comes...
The week’s bestselling books, July 27
Hardcover fiction 1. An Inside Job by Daniel Silva (Harper: $32) An art restorer and legendary spy must solve the perfect crime. 2. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books:...
