Happy Friday from Austin, TX where the ATX TV Festival (co-founded by ATX FYA book club member Emily Gipson) is in full swing! Y’all, this festival is SUCH a blast (um, Golden Girls script reading? Christine Baranski? Jon Hamm? Seth Meyers? An embarrassment of riches!), and I highly recommend adding it to your 2026 calendar.
Anyway! On to the links!
ICYMI on FYA
We released our list of most anticipated books for the latter half of 2025!
Mandy W. recapped the season 2 finale of The Last of Us.
For this week’s Stream It review, I gushed about and squeed over Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.
In this week’s installment of the Friday Night Lights Rewatch Project, there’s a ton of messy drama both on and off the field (and Tim Riggins declares his love in the most Tim Riggins way possible).
Book-Related Things
Leigh Bardugo released a teaser for the third Ninth House book, finally!!!
I love the title of this Reactor piece: “Magic Doesn’t Have to Make Sense.”
A round-up of great sci-fi / fantasy books featuring meddling, mystery-solving kids.
Five books that rethink magic school tropes.
Onscreen Things
Variety released their slate for Actors on Actors, and OMG Keri Russell is interviewing Scott Speedman!!!! Felicity and Ben, together again as they should be.
Rachel Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. are reuniting for a Christmas romance, which I’m sure will be ALL THAT!
Will Good Fortune be my favorite movie of the year? Probably!!!
Social Media Things
Is there such a thing as too much Twilight?
This dog is nailing it:
Miscellaneous Things
At the ATX TV panel last night with Seth Meyers, they showed this clip of Seth and Paul Rudd “recreating” Taken after day drinking, and y’all it is HYSTERICAL.
