Baby and Bump Obsession Meghan Markle’s Bench It was announced today that Meghan Markle’s first children’s book, The Bench, will be released on June 8th by Penguin Random House. The book is written from a mother’s perspective about the relationship between a father and son, inspired obviously by Prince Harry and Archie’s bond. By Lainey • May 04, 2021 02:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lunge with Channing Tatum Channing Tatum wrote a children’s book called The One and Only Sparkella which comes out May 4. It’s the story of a dad and his daughter. I imagine there’ll be a book tour to promote? If that’s the case, we should be seeing more of him By Lainey • Apr 22, 2021 10:02 am
Books MBJ & Chanté: In Love in the Park Here are Michael B Jordan and Chanté Adams today in Central Park working on the film Journal for Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington based on the memoir by Dana Canedy about her relationship with US Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King and the journals he left for their son who By Lainey • Mar 25, 2021 01:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George and Ben on set George Clooney is currently directing Ben Affleck in the film adaptation of JR Moehringer’s The Tender Bar in Boston which they are pretending to be Long Island, if they’re staying true to the story told in the book about Moehringer’s affection and attachment to the neighbourhood pub By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 03:37 pm
Books Intro for March 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, If you love books, if you’re looking for a new book, today is a good day. Today is the release of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and The Sun, published by Penguin Random House, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. And we need it, By Lainey • Mar 02, 2021 09:46 am
Books I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter I have been in a funk lately (EVERYBODY: Who hasn’t?!), which has meant that other than for work, I have not been able to process new content. I often eat dinner with my kids while we re-watch (and re-re-watch) Bob’s Burgers episodes, and my bedtime routine currently includes By Violeta • Feb 25, 2021 09:27 am
Maple Leaf Are You There, Judy? Thanks! I’ve made a point of reading Judy Blume books to my kid. That wouldn’t have even been worthy of writing down 20 years ago, but now that there’s been an explosion of kid and YA- lit, these books are somehow not seen as essential extracurricular texts, never By Duana • Feb 19, 2021 03:26 pm
Books Sarah Ferguson Brings the Romance Did you blurt out a “huh?” when you read that title? It is a statement of fact though. I haven’t lured you here on false pretenses. Sarah Ferguson is bringing the romance, this is what’s happening. And I think… if you haven’t seen it yet…you might By Lainey • Jan 13, 2021 01:45 pm
Books My Favorite Things of 2020: Piranesi Like many people, I ended up reading more than usual this year. Sleep being especially hard to come by at certain points during the year, I found myself reading well into the night many times. The stand-out book for me this year is actually one of my recent reads, Piranesi By Sarah • Dec 17, 2020 02:54 pm
TV Updates The Road to Bridgerton The full trailer for Bridgerton, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of Julia Quinn’s popular series of romance novels, has dropped and it is the lavish, candy-coated confection we need at the end of this horrible year. I am unabashedly enthusiastic about Bridgerton—look at it! JUST LOOK AT IT!—and By Sarah • Dec 14, 2020 12:45 pm
Books Clooney + Affleck v 2.0 George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on Argo – they co-produced, along with Grant Heslov, George’s producing partner, and Ben starred and directed, and the film went on to win Best Picture. That was almost ten years ago. And now they’re teaming up again. Deadline reported yesterday that By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 11:35 am
Top Reads “Narrated by Blue Ivy Carter” If you’ve been on Twitter recently you might have noticed that The Blue Ivy Carter is trending. “Blue Ivy” is the trend, actually, and everyone on the planet knows who the words Blue + Ivy are referring to. There is only one: cultural icon, the first daughter of Her Majesty By Lainey • Nov 09, 2020 01:54 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, In 2017, Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko was released to critical acclaim, regarded as one of the best books of the year. Roxane Gay named it her favourite book of 2017. In August 2018, after a bidding war involving multiple outlets, Apple acquired the rights to adapt the By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 09:00 am
Books Matthew McConaughey’s Rogue Relative Matthew McConaughey memoir Greenlights was released this week based on journal entries he’s been keeping for over 30 years. He says he recently went back to these diaries and decided to organise all those experiences and memories into a book – going into the desert by himself to put it By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 10:36 am
Music Intro for October 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, The thing that broke me this morning was what broke Stephen Colbert: Dolly Parton’s singing. It’s the first clip I watched when I got up. Here it is if you haven’t yet seen it: .@DollyParton sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow” and I think somebody By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 08:51 am
Books Intro for October 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, I still haven’t started reading The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey which makes me a sh-tty lamb, I know. Would Mimi understand what inlectio is? Well, she’d probably say that I could listen to the audiobook – it’s her voice, after all. Unfortunately audiobooks By Lainey • Oct 06, 2020 08:57 am
