Author: Katie Smith

Memoir NON-FICTION 

Celebrity Memoir Books to Read Instead of Woody Allen’s

March 23, 2020March 24, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Alicia Keys, Anthony Bourdain, Caroline Calloway, Colin Jost, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Jessica Simpson, Lili Reinhart, Madeline Albright, Neil Strauss, Steve Madden, The Jonas Brothers, Tori Amos, Val Kilmer

Life for the rich and famous before Coronavirus

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‘My Dark Vanessa’

March 10, 2020March 11, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment #metoo, Kate Elizabeth Russell, Lolita, My Dark Vanessa

The controversial debut delivers a hard-to-read story you can’t put down

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NON-FICTION Politics 

Hachette Cancels Woody Allen

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Apropos Of Nothing, Catch and Kill, Hachette, Ronan Farrow, Stephen King, Woody Allen

The decision to pull his memoir comes on the heels of Friday’s employee walk-out

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Six Unromantic Books for Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Maggie Nelson, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Broder, Patricia Highsmith, Valentine's Day

Gift the literary weirdo in your life

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CREATORS FICTION Writers 

‘My Dark Vanessa’ Author Accused of Plagiarism

February 3, 2020 Katie Smith 3 Comments American Dirt, Brandon Taylor, Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa, T. Kira Madden, Wendy C. Ortiz, William Morrow

On the Heels of ‘American Dirt’ Comes a Fresh Literary Scandal

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The Dirt on ‘American Dirt’

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments

We Break Down the Controversy

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COMICS CREATORS FICTION Writers Young Adult 

Who Killed Nancy Drew?

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Afterlife with Archie, Anthony Del Col, Chuck Wendig, Jennifer Fisher, Nancy Drew, Nancy Drew Sleuths, Riverdale, Sherlock Holmes, The Hardy Boys

Writer Anthony Del Col may be “icing” the beloved teen detective, but says it’s not “fridging.”

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Such a Fun Rage

January 27, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments American Dirt, Care.com, Kiley Reid, Reese Witherspoon, Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid’s Debut Novel Holds a Magnifying Glass to Well-Intentioned White Villainy

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TELEVISION 

Life With Archie

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 Katie Smith 0 Comments Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Chad Michael Murray, Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, Cole Sprouse, Jughead, KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Luke Perry, Molly Ringwald, Riverdale, Shannon Purser, Skeet Ulrich

‘Riverdale’ is Too Much, and That’s Why I Love It

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FICTION FILM 

I Hate ‘Little Women’

September 18, 2019January 13, 2020 Katie Smith 8 Comments Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern, Little Women, Little Women 1933, Little Women 1994, Little Women 2019, Meryl Streep, Saorise Ronan, Timothée Chalamet

Maybe Greta Gerwig’s Upcoming Adaptation Can Rewrite the March Sisters’ Endings

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FILM 

Furiouser and Furiouser

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Katie Smith 0 Comments Chris Morgan, Fast & Furious, Jason Statham, Justin Lin, Paul Walker, The Rock, Tokyo Drift, Tyrese, Vin Diesel

My Fast Adoption into the Action-Movie “Family” That I Once Mocked

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