Not just the book itself, but what it meant to read it under the covers with a flashlight, or on the back porch of our house, which wasn’t ours anymore. With the arrival of every volume, I’d get a thrill, remembering. Courtney Sullivan discusses rebuilding her childhood library: In other book scam news, the Stranger is digging into the life of PEN Literary Award nominee John Smelcer, who appears to have falsified his racial background, heritage, degree, publication history, and blurbs.It’s being adapted into a movie, and Insecure’s Issa Rae just joined the cast. Tangentially related: The book that was at first unseated from the top of the list and has now been re-enthroned is The Hate U Give, which we here at Vox loved.EW has a solid postmortem if you get to the end of Pajiba’s updates and are still confused. That’s honestly not that hard to do and happens all the time, but as Book Twitter sleuthed its way to the bottom the mystery, this especially ham-handed attempt proved to involve such early ’00s minor celebrities as Glory from Buffy, JC Chasez of ’NSYNC, and the band Blues Traveler. Pajiba was first to report the big news: A book called Handbook For Mortals apparently bought its way top the top of the New York Times children’s best-sellers list.
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