Fran Lebowitz talks about her latest film project, Pretend It’s a City, with Martin Scorsese.
New work by Lauren Groff, Zadie Smith, Haruki Murakami, Hanif Abdurraqib, Louise Glück, Maggie Nelson, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, and many more: The Guardian has published a list of books and literary events to “look forward to this year.”
Bozoma Saint John, the global chief marketing officer for Netflix, has sold a memoir, The Urgent Life, to Viking.
The latest episode of the Slate Money podcast features an interview with Jacob Goldstein, author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing.
The New York City Parks Department has put up a new sign in Brooklyn: Sorrentino Square. Named after novelist Gilbert Sorrentino—author of Steelwork, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, and Mulligan Stew—the square is located in Leif Ericson Park in Bay Ridge.