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Book Club: Audacious (Roxane Gay)
Bustle's Most Anticipated An intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants. Inspired by writer Amber Husain's unorthodox route to healing from anorexia, Tell Me How You Eat examines not just how society views the refusal to eat, but how we understand the meaning and power of food. Suspecting that the standard courses of treatment--as disempowering as they are ineffective--might in fact be part of the underlying problem, Husain took part in an experimental psylocibin treatment study. Where the medical model typically tries to fix the difficult non-eater, this trial opened her mind to the idea that there might be more to fix beyond the self--that our relationship with food might be closely entwined with our outlook on the world. Through five chapters taking in hunger, restriction, gorging, feeding, and the making of political demands, Husain turns away from thinking about how people are shaped by food to think instead about how food can inspire people to reshape the world. Each chapter searches for reasons to eat and live through histories ranging from pus-drinking medieval nuns to Black Panther breakfast programs; from 1950s lesbian dinner parties to modern-day Gazan food bloggers. In a culture that insists you are what you eat, and makes every bite a fraught moral choice, Husain argues that we will only feel truly nourished when we can eat in the spirit of restoring a collective right to food, long eroded over centuries of systems and narratives that have normalized deprivation. |
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The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth ArnottBook Club: Good Morning AmericaA LibraryReads Pick ONE OF MARIE CLAIRE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 ONE OF GLAMOUR'S BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS A remarkable trio whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands' crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel. Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands' brutal crimes. With their exes--some of California's most infamous murderers--dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves. Headstrong Beverley tries compulsively to maintain control of everything around her, all while raising two children. Bookish Elsie fights to make a name for herself in the newsroom, working among men who sneer at her career goals. Glamorous Margot prefers partying to homemaking and devotes all her energy to upholding the appearance that everything is fine--anything to quell the shame from her husband's deceit. They know people look at them and think only one thing: How could they not have known what their husbands were doing? How much are they to blame? And yet when a string of local killings hits the news, the three women--underestimated, overlooked, shrewd--decide to get to work. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives and homes with one? At once a riveting portrayal of shattered trust and a story of gripping suspense, The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives is a testament to the intricacies of women's lives and how the deep bonds of female friendship can empower, uplift, and lead us to endure.
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Book club: Read With Jenna Book Club: Good Housekeeping
When young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her prowess in 1973, she has two wildly beloved albums to her name and a hidden history of impossible heartbreak. After she sets foot on the famed Grand Ole Opry stage, a far cry from the mountain that raised her, Elle gives the biggest performance of her life. Then, to the dismay of shocked fans, her producer, and the man who still loves her, she vanishes. Almost two decades later, eighteen-year-old Marijohn Shaw is spending her summer pumping gas, writing songs on her broken mandolin, and longing for a mother. Her father Abe has always sworn he was the last person to see Elle Harlow alive, but when a meteor strikes the woods of their sleepy Pennsylvania town and a piece of Elle's past emerges from the wreckage, the truth of her disappearance sets fire to everything Marijohn believes about herself, her music, and her ability to love with abandon. Wait for Me is an unapologetic, deeply emotive story set in Appalachia and Nashville that defies the trope of the missing woman and gives us a female duo who can find hope in each other and sing the ache in every good song-- Provided by publisher. |
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Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world. |
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Book Club: Reese Witherspoon
MEET LADY TREMAINE in this spellbinding reimagining of Cinderella, as told by its iconic evil stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go for her children. |
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Book Club: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives-divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals-their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman--whose prior collection was heralded as one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life (The Boston Globe)--returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters. A big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations-- Provided by publisher. |
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Book Club: Oprah Book Club
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones's very best work. --Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother's death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. |
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(Mar 2026);ABC: The View (Jan 2026);NBC: Late Night with Seth Meyers (Jan 2026)
The New York Times Bestseller From the award-winning composer/co-lyricist behind such iconic projects as Hairspray, Sister Act, Mary Poppins Returns, and Smash comes a wickedly funny, no-holds-barred memoir. In Never Mind the Happy, musical dynamo Marc Shaiman looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations. Along the way, he charts the personal highs and heartbreaks that have shaped him--spending his teenage years in community theater, starting a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the '70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the '80s, his award-winning film music career in the Hollywood of the '90s, right up to the peaks (and valleys) of creating Broadway musicals from 2000 on. Candid, hilarious, and deeply human, Shaiman's story is a tribute to the power of music, the pull of the spotlight, and the beat that never stops. Part showbiz tell-all, part love letter to the melancholy that fuels creativity, told with perfect comic timing--along with a few wrong notes, and plenty of standing ovations.
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ABC: The View (Mar 2026)
In this fearless and inspiring memoir, trailblazing journalist Joan Lunden pulls back the curtain on the defining moments that shaped her extraordinary life--from breaking barriers on national television to reshaping motherhood, survivorship, and aging on her own terms. |
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ABC: The View (Mar 2026);ABC: Good Morning America (Mar 2026);ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live (Feb 2026)
Funny, furious, and profane. --The New York Times Not your typical celebrity memoir. --Jimmy Kimmel Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, You with the Sad Eyes unveils a side of Christina Applegate we've never seen, forever cementing her formidable and iconoclastic legacy. Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. What started as a financial necessity soon became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life in the infamous Laurel Canyon scene of the 70s and 80s. She rocketed to stardom on the sitcom Married...with Children and went on to captivate audiences in classics like Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead..., Anchorman, and Dead to Me in her five-decade long career. Then it all stopped. A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she'd rather forget: memories of the self-doubt and body dysmorphia that stalked her meteoric rise, of her mother's fight against addiction and abuse after her father left, and of the tax life had taken on her body and mind that was suddenly coming due. Now, at her most intimate and vulnerable, she unveils a story not even those closest to her fully know. She returns to the diaries she kept her whole life, finding the pain matched by joy, the losses mitigated by the extraordinary, and the weight of life lifted by her unrelenting belief that something greater lay ahead. No longer willing to lock herself away and with the perspective only our own mortality can bring, she knew it was imperative to tell it all. You with the Sad Eyes presents a remarkable woman and her legacy. In her own words, I truly believe that books can make people feel less alone. That's why I'm doing this. You with the Sad Eyes won't be some big violin scratching for my life. But it will be real. It will be filled with the ups and downs, the humor and grief of life. So here I am. Real me. Lots to say.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in the new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 gothic classic about a destructive love affair.
Where to watch: Wuthering Heights is now playing in theaters.
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56 Days
by Catherine Ryan Howard
Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia star in the series adaptation of Catherine Ryan Howard's thriller about a couple hiding secrets from each other while in COVID-19 lockdown.
Where to watch: 56 Days is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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Cold Storage
by David Koepp
Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, and Georgina Campbell star in the film adaptation of David Koepp's action-packed thriller about a rapidly mutating organism capable of destroying the world.
Where to watch: Cold Storage is now playing in theaters.
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An Offer from a Gentleman
by Julia Quinn
The latest season of Bridgerton adapts An Offer from a Gentleman, the 3rd novel in Julia Quinn's popular Regency romance series, which focuses on the star-crossed love between Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek.
Where to watch: Season 4 of Bridgerton is now streaming on Netflix.
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Box Hill
by Adam Mars-Jones
Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård star in the "dom-com" Pillion, based on Adam Mars-Jones' novel about a BDSM relationship between a timid man and the leader of a biker gang.
Where to watch: Pillion is now playing in theaters.
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander's 8th and final season adapts Diane Gabaldon's bestselling historical fantasy novel Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, focusing on Claire and Jamie's lives during the American Revolutionary War.
Where to watch: The final season of Outlander premieres March 6th on Starz.
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Postmortem
by Patricia Cornwell
Nicole Kidman stars as forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta in Scarpetta, the series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's bestselling crime novels, which began with Postmortem.
Where to watch: Scarpetta premieres March 11th on Amazon Prime Video.
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Reminders of Him
by Colleen Hoover
Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers costar in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel about a woman hoping to reunite with her daughter after being released from prison, and the man who helps her find redemption.
Where to watch: Catch Reminders of Him in theaters on March 13th.
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Imperfect Women
by Araminta Hall
Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Kate Mara star in the series adaptation of Araminta Hall's thriller about a decades-long friendship rocked by a murder.
Where to watch: Imperfect Women premieres March 18th on Apple TV.
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Ryan Gosling stars in the film adaptation of Andy Weir's science fiction novel about a middle school science teacher who reluctantly becomes an astronaut and finds himself the only person who can save humanity from extinction.
Where to watch: Project Hail Mary hits theaters on March 20th.
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