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By Sara Bright The dust has finally settled. On 4 May 2026, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni announced a settlement of their bitter legal dispute…
By Sara Bright The dead, it turns out, are extremely profitable. In September 2021, Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for more than $700…
By Tessa Nolan When Whoopi Goldberg launched WhoopInk, a new publishing imprint with Blackstone Publishing, in early 2026, the announcement landed with the quiet confidence…
By Tessa Nolan When Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek landed in 2019, it arrived with the quiet authority of a book that had been…
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By Maria Bregman I spent most of my twenties) ignoring romance novels. Actually, scrap that. I didn’t just ignore them. I actively looked down on…
By Maria Bregman I’ve been thinking about facial hair lately. Not in a hipster, coffee-shop-barista way, but in a “soul of the artist” way. It…