Books Intro for February 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Roxane Gay tweeted out a link to the full text of the keynote address she recently delivered at Winter Institute about diversity – or, rather, how conversations about diversity have instead become conversations about absolution and will be meaningless without active learning and work, which requires us to By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 10:00 am
TV Updates Framed and Big Little Lies Back in September, the LA Times ran a 6 part true crime series about PTA moms called Framed. Did you read it? My eye was f-cked at the time with this and I went to a walk-in clinic that weekend and started reading it on my phone. You By Lainey • Dec 05, 2016 04:30 pm
Books Intro for November 29, 2016 Dear Gossips, Last year I spent a week stalking Paula Hawkins, the author of The Girl On The Train, the bestselling book of 2015. I interviewed Paula four times over a period of days, starting on etalk, then on The Social, then at a bookstore, and finally I moderated her By Lainey • Nov 29, 2016 08:39 am
Books Intro for November 17, 2016 Dear Gossips, New Zadie Smith interview! New Zadie Smith interview! Her book, Swing Time, came out this week. Have you started? Do you love it? I’ve about 100 pages to go to the end, don’t want it to end, and I didn’t have a highlighter with me By Lainey • Nov 17, 2016 10:08 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor has to tell Andy Cohen’s new book Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries came out today. Andy is tight with Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa. He hangs out with John Mayer. So as much as he says he’s telling Hollywood tales, the tales he can safely tell are By Lainey • Nov 15, 2016 11:42 am
Books Intro for November 9, 2016 Dear Gossips, It’s hard to miss the point that was made last night. The point was, as David Remnick wrote in The New Yorker, that the Other is not equal, not welcome, and, maybe, not safe. That point is devastating and it has been taken very personally. Worse, for By Lainey • Nov 09, 2016 10:01 am
Books Intro for October 31, 2016 Dear Gossips, Zadie Smith’s new book, Swing Time, comes out on November 15th. It’s about two friends who meet at a community dance class in the early 80s but only one of them has the gift for dance while the other has the gift of observation. I’m By Lainey • Oct 31, 2016 08:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 21, 2016 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Power Authors list just ahead of the release of The Girl On The Train which went from book to movie in under two years. And then I wondered in that post when it was going By Lainey • Oct 21, 2016 09:36 am
Books Intro for October 19, 2016 Dear Gossips, A few months ago, I posted about Author: The JT LeRoy Story, a documentary exploring how writer Laura Albert created a separate creative persona and had someone else play that persona, fooling the literary and celebrity community for years. The film was released earlier this year. Laura insists By Lainey • Oct 19, 2016 10:04 am
Books Intro for October 18, 2016 Dear Gossips, Wait, Zadie Smith and Nick Laird host cocktail parties? Apparently if you’re lucky enough to be invited to a Zadie Smith-Nick Laird cocktail party, you show up. No one declines. But I’m jumping ahead. If you’ve been reading this blog a while you know By Lainey • Oct 18, 2016 10:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hiddleston lunches alone Tom Hiddleston in Australia this weekend having lunch at his favourite café, The Social. That’s a good name, but I’m biased. Wish we could get a better shot of what he’s eating. Is it a salad? I love eating alone. With my laptop or a good book, By Lainey • Oct 17, 2016 10:42 am
TV Updates Big Little Lies: the first trailer If you’ve been reading this site for some time, you might remember that back in 2014 I kept nagging you to read a book called Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. The simple introduction to Big Little Lies is that it’s about the school run, mom alliances, the By Lainey • Oct 17, 2016 09:33 am
Shoes Anna Kendrick: zebra print, toe cleavage, and her book This skirt is delightful. Is it zebra print? Wait let me Google. Yes, it appears to be. I get confused sometimes which print belongs to which animal because I’m an ignorant f-ck. Is there a cheat sheet for this? Anyway, this outfit is terrific and I like the By Lainey • Sep 29, 2016 02:41 pm
Books Intro for September 29, 2016 Dear Gossips, The cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter features author Paula Hawkins and Emily Blunt ahead of the premiere of The Girl On The Train. Paula ranks at #19 on THR’s 25 Power Authors list. As you know, The Girl On The Train is one By Lainey • Sep 29, 2016 09:35 am
TV Updates Z for Zayn Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid held hands on the way out of New York yesterday. They’ve been together in NYC for fashion week where Gigi promoted her collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger. Oh yeah, and Taylor Swift helped with that too. But it’s not just been about Gigi. Because By Lainey • Sep 16, 2016 11:06 am
Maple Leaf Rachel & Jamie go for bedding Rachel McAdams was photographed in LA last Friday with Jamie Linden. They’ve been together since at least May. Rachel and Jamie were joined by her sister, Kayleen, and her husband. And they were shopping at a bedding store. His place or her place? Rachel, as you know, when she’ By Lainey • Aug 23, 2016 11:55 am
