Riding With ConanO’Brien’s longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian, on smuggling her boss to work (and making him watch Bad Girls Club) during the Tonight Show debacle.
The Life I GrewDoctors said my disability would make it impossible to get pregnant. I was 5 months along when I realized the truth.
ByChloé Cooper Jones
fiction
Women and Children First, From HeartbrokeIn this excerpt from Chelsea Bieker’s new collection, one woman tries to right the sins of her past by … committing a few more in the present.
The Editor and the MurdererWhen Sophie Wilkins heard about death-row prisoner Edgar Smith, she was determined to edit his book. Then the two became something more.
BySarah Weinman
aoc
The Unprecedented AOCHow a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left.
‘You Don’t Understand What This Is Doing to Me’In the age of anti-heroes Tony Soprano reigned supreme. In his new bookJames Andrew Miller explores the toll the character took on James Gandolfini.
ByJames Andrew Miller
book excerpt
Mac Miller Found Freedom on FacesAn oral history of Mac Miller’s 2014 opus, now available on streaming services for the first time, excerpted from The Book of Mac.
‘Never Call Me Your Drummer Again’The full story of the time Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, excerpted from Sympathy for the Drummer.
ByMike Edison
book excerpt
What Miss Piggy Taught Me About AbuseIn this excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Nichole Perkins discusses the consequences of believing that the way to a man’s heart is to wear it down.
ByNichole Perkins
book excerpt
Closer to Perfect“I wish someone had said something like, “Don’t change one damn thing about yourself.”
Talking Around the Elephant in the RoomThey could publish books about bitcoin and black holes, but they couldn’t understand why it was important to have more diverse authors.
‘You Must Play Basketball’He wants to see my moves. My Black athleticism will turn him on. But my body is a marionette with tangled and impossibly knotted strings.
