If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Author Colleen Hoover‘s 2018 romantic thriller, “Verity,” is back on the bestsellers chart as a motion picture adaptation of the novel hits theaters nationwide. The hardcover version of “Verity” is currently number two on
When Mackenzie Scott got divorced from Jeff Bezos in 2019, she became one of the richest people in the world overnight. Their divorce settlement was among the largest in history, granting her assets that included 4% of Amazon’s stock — roughly $38 billion. She wasted little time before starting to give her fortune away, handing
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships,
After five long years of waiting, Sarah J. Maas fans can rejoice — the sixth “A Court of Thorns and Roses” book finally has a release date. Well, it actually has release dates. On March 4, 2026, the author announced the next “ACOTAR” book would be published on October 27, 2026. The work is eagerly
It’s going to get a lot harder to let Claude be a ghostwriter for everything from novels to homework. On Monday, Anthropic said new Claude models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into AI-generated text. The watermark doesn’t change the text’s meaning or readability, but travels with it when copied and pasted and “may persist
Angela Nissel’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it’s a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it’s delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of
