Annabel Gutterman

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The Best Books of 2022 So Far

In a time that continues to be marked by uncertainty and devastation, books can provide solace and, perhaps, some answers to the biggest questions that arise when living through crises. The best books of the...

By Annabel Gutterman June 2, 2022

Author Maggie Shipstead Knows Why We're Drawn to Celebrity Characters

Last May, Maggie Shipstead released Great Circle, a sweeping, 600-page epic that flips between the lives of a 20th-century pilot who goes missing and a present-day actor playing the pilot in a major biopic. One...

By Annabel Gutterman May 12, 2022

Renée Elise Goldsberry on Playing an 'Unapologetically Ambitious' Diva on Girls5eva

Growing up, the now Tony-award winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry often wondered how someone got discovered. She recalls being at the grocery store and thinking about whether she could get noticed there. “It was one...

By Annabel Gutterman May 5, 2022

She Blew the Whistle on Uber. Now She’s Releasing Fiction About Scammers and Strivers

Is it possible to reinvent yourself? The question has been on Susan Rigetti’s mind since 2017. It was then that she, under her maiden name Susan Fowler, wrote a viral blog post that thrust her...

By Annabel Gutterman March 18, 2022

The Darker Side of Campus Comes to Life in Novels Vladimir and Disorientation

If you’ve been on TikTok over the past two years, you already know: the kids are into “dark academia.” In social media terms, it’s an aesthetic—think images of gothic architecture, dusty libraries, and vintage plaid,...

By Annabel Gutterman January 31, 2022

Hanya Yanagihara Won't Read Your Mean Tweets

One of the most anticipated books of the year, Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise, is already one of its most debated. The doorstopping 720-page novel is split into three sections, each focused on different characters by...

By Annabel Gutterman January 14, 2022

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past

When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top of...

By Annabel Gutterman January 10, 2022

Delia Ephron on Finding Love Again in her 70s

Delia Ephron is aware that her story sounds like it's straight out of a movie. First, over the span of just a few years, the novelist and screenwriter suffered a crushing amount of loss. Her...

By Annabel Gutterman January 6, 2022

Joan Didion Wrote About Grief Like No One Else Could

In the wake of the celebrated writer's death, we look to her own words on loss and grief

By Annabel Gutterman December 23, 2021

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021

The year 2021 was poised to be a great one for established, fan-favorite authors. We were blessed with new work from a buzzy roster of titans, from Colson Whitehead to Lauren Groff to Kazuo Ishiguro....

By Annabel Gutterman December 10, 2021
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