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Worldwide rights to the adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s latest, Atmosphere, have been claimed by Black Bear Pictures. The distribution news dropped late last week. Black Bear, by the way, is the production company behind the Train Dreams adaptation…and Wicker. If you’re just catching up, here’s everything we know about the Atmosphere adaptation so far:
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New Guardians In most cases, the teams on this list are underrated and undeservedly so. But no one questions the sorry reputation of the New Guardians, who made their debut in 1988. The New Guardians spin out of the little-loved 1988 crossover event Millennium, an extension of Steve Englehart and Joe Staton’s excellent run on
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The Choose Your Own Adventure series is getting an imprint for adults. CYOA Unbound will be the first imprint “dedicated to publishing nonlinear, multiple-ending gamebooks for adults.” The inaugural lineup, out fall 2027, includes: CYOA Unbound will publish titles that span genres and categories like reimagined classics, horror, mysteries, thrillers, and romance. Launched by one
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Like capri pants and velour tracksuits, it seems that Shakespeare’s tragic tale of teenage love comes back around every 30 years. Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey drew raves and included a brief nude scene that prompted “a lot of fuss” at the time and a lawsuit alleging child abuse decades
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September 22, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Questions about Book Riot? We’re turning 15 next month, and you’re invited to the party. Ask us anything, reflect on the biggest literary controversies of the last decade-and-a-half, and celebrate the best of the bookish internet. Spread the word. Share this email with friends.
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We’re celebrating the 15th anniversary of Book Riot entering the independent literary media scene this October, and you’re invited! All month, we’ll be looking back on the last 15 years in books and publishing. Our readers, listeners, and followers are invited to join us on the journey, sharing more than a decade of literary controversies
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September 18, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Looksmaxxing got a glow-up this week as Merriam-Webster added 1,400 new words to the dictionary. If the Sunday scaries put you in crashout mode, get ready to feel very perceived. You could be forgiven for having a parasocial relationship with the dictionary; the Merriam-Webster
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Folklore and horror go together like blood and flesh. One cannot exist without the other. Stories were originally passed down by word of mouth, long before any written language existed. Fables and fairy tales are subgenres of folklore, and we all know how horrific such fairy tales can be whenever someone–adult or child–gets their comeuppance.
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