Happy Friday, folks! And happy November! Did you have a good Halloween yesterday?
ICYMI on FYA
In our ongoing rewatch of Friday Night Lights, we’re prepping for Season 2 with an updated drinking game.
I took a walk down the Witches’ Road with my review of the superb and superbly witchy Agatha All Along in this week’s Stream It.
And in this week’s Book Reports:
- Brian reviewed Adam Cesare’s Influencer, a book about a YouTuber who is also a killer.
- Regina reviewed Claudia Gray’s The Murder of Mr. Wickham, the start of a new series in which Gray proves she can handle Austen’s characters.
- And I reviewed Raquel Vasquez Gilliland’s Lightning in Her Hands, a romance novel that mixes magic with trauma.
Book-Related Things
“The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron” is out now. (I had to look up what a monograph was.)
“The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century.”
There’s a new (adult) Maggie Stiefvater book coming.
“22 Amazing Female Authors To Celebrate National Author’s Day.”
“All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th.”
“Grief Is the Thing Worth Feeling: On Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story.”
Onscreen Things
Lifetime’s holiday movies will now feature sex scenes.
“Inside American Primeval, Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin’s bloody, brutal Western epic.”
A first look at Jeremy Allen White as The Boss.
Anna Kendrick donated her pay from her new film Woman of the Hour to victims of violent crime.
A list of the 10 best on-screen Draculas.
Social Media Things
The Halloween fun isn’t over!
Miscellaneous Things
You can now listen to JC Chasez’s new album, which was inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
In a bid to become uncancelled, perhaps, Armie Hammer is starting a podcast.
A “Swiftie Grandmother” in New Orleans decorated her yard with Taylor Swift skeletons for Halloween.
Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum are no more. But Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are taking things to the next level.
What’d we miss? Add your fave distractions of the week in the comments.
