Latest news with #MalibuRising
The Advertiser
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
From Evelyn Hugo to NASA: Author Taylor Jenkins Reid reaches for the stars
Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, Atmosphere: A Love Story, set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. "I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'" Atmosphere follows astronomer Joan Goodwin, who is selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space - until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind Captain Marvel, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a cinema release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the 1970s rock scene in Daisy Jones & the Six, 1980s surf culture in Malibu Rising and professional tennis in Carrie Soto is Back. With Atmosphere, though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. "It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid said. "It was a very intense period of time. " For this endeavor, she needed assistance: "I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" She was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. "He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that." Question: How has writing Atmosphere changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasise enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. Q: Last year you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realise how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. Q: Serena Williams is executive producing Carrie Soto for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, "Taylor, slow down your heart rate." The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the US Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. Q: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the Evelyn Hugo movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy. AP/AAP Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, Atmosphere: A Love Story, set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. "I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'" Atmosphere follows astronomer Joan Goodwin, who is selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space - until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind Captain Marvel, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a cinema release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the 1970s rock scene in Daisy Jones & the Six, 1980s surf culture in Malibu Rising and professional tennis in Carrie Soto is Back. With Atmosphere, though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. "It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid said. "It was a very intense period of time. " For this endeavor, she needed assistance: "I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" She was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. "He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that." Question: How has writing Atmosphere changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasise enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. Q: Last year you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realise how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. Q: Serena Williams is executive producing Carrie Soto for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, "Taylor, slow down your heart rate." The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the US Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. Q: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the Evelyn Hugo movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy. AP/AAP Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, Atmosphere: A Love Story, set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. "I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'" Atmosphere follows astronomer Joan Goodwin, who is selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space - until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind Captain Marvel, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a cinema release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the 1970s rock scene in Daisy Jones & the Six, 1980s surf culture in Malibu Rising and professional tennis in Carrie Soto is Back. With Atmosphere, though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. "It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid said. "It was a very intense period of time. " For this endeavor, she needed assistance: "I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" She was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. "He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that." Question: How has writing Atmosphere changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasise enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. Q: Last year you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realise how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. Q: Serena Williams is executive producing Carrie Soto for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, "Taylor, slow down your heart rate." The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the US Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. Q: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the Evelyn Hugo movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy. AP/AAP Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, Atmosphere: A Love Story, set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. "I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'" Atmosphere follows astronomer Joan Goodwin, who is selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space - until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind Captain Marvel, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a cinema release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, the 1970s rock scene in Daisy Jones & the Six, 1980s surf culture in Malibu Rising and professional tennis in Carrie Soto is Back. With Atmosphere, though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. "It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid said. "It was a very intense period of time. " For this endeavor, she needed assistance: "I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" She was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. "He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that." Question: How has writing Atmosphere changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasise enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. Q: Last year you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realise how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. Q: Serena Williams is executive producing Carrie Soto for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, "Taylor, slow down your heart rate." The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the US Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. Q: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the Evelyn Hugo movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy. AP/AAP Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Taylor Jenkins Reid's ‘Atmosphere' Is Becoming a Movie! What We Know
Taylor Jenkins Reid fans, it's time to blast off, because the bestselling historical fiction author's newest book, Atmosphere, is officially being turned into a movie! It will be the seventh adaptation that Reid has worked on, but it will be the first one to be set in outer space. Below, we have compiled everything you need to know about the Atmosphere adaptation, including whether it connects to the author's other historical projects. Scroll on for more. The Atmosphere adaptation was announced in May, a month before the book even hit shelves. It is expected to be produced by Laika Studios, and written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. 'We couldn't be more excited to team up with three boundary-pushing creative voices on this very special film,' said Matt Levin, Laika's President, Live Action Film & Series, per Deadline. 'From books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo to Carrie Soto is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid always captivates us with rich, emotionally complex characters and she is in peak form with Atmosphere. There are no better filmmakers to adapt Taylor's story for the screen than Ryan and Anna, who throughout their amazing careers have crafted deeply human stories set against canvases of stunning cinematic spectacle. We can't wait to see them bring Taylor's world of Atmosphere to life.' Along with Atmosphere, Reid's other novels, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto Is Back are also in pre-production. She has had her bestselling historical fiction novel, Daisy Jones & The Six, adapted into a TV series, and her romance novel, One True Loves, adapted into a film, both of which were released in 2023. Atmosphere is Reid's ninth novel, and it is her fifth one in the historical fiction realm. The plot follows Joan Goodwin, a professor of physics and astronomy, who makes history by becoming one of the first female scientists ever accepted into NASA's Space Shuttle training program. While there, she begins training alongside an extraordinary group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot John Griffin and scientist Hank Redmond, mission specialist Lydia Danes, Donna Fitzgerald and Vanessa Ford. Three years later, the group is still as strong as ever…until a 1984 rocket mission goes wrong, and Joan finds herself doing everything she can to bring her friends—and the person she loves— home before it's too late. 'Atmosphere pushed me to learn about astronomy, and to go outside and look up at the night sky,' Reid told People magazine in May. 'There is, for me, something really close to magical about standing in my backyard and looking up and seeing Orion's Belt …. It gives such a beautiful sense of how the world is turning in both a literal way and a metaphorical way.' A common theme in Reid's historical fiction novels is that they all connect to each other in some way. Whether that's a recurring character—we are looking at you, Mick Riva—or newspaper clips, the author made sure to let readers know these books took place in the same universe. The same cannot be said for Atmosphere, though. In this historical fiction, Joan and Vanessa are all alone, meaning that, sadly, in the film, we most likely won't see Daisy Jones or Evelyn Hugo pop up on our screens. Since the Atmosphere adaptation news is relatively new, there is, unfortunately, no release date for the film yet. There is also no cast, but until there is, we will be sitting here on our spaceships anxiously waiting. For more book news, keep scrolling! V.E. Schwab on Why Her New Book Is an 'Unofficial Sequel' to 'Addie LaRue' (EXCLUSIVE) 'It's Kind of Hard To Believe': Abby Jimenez Opens up About Going From Baker to Bestseller (EXCLUSIVE) 10 Historical Fiction Books About Women in Wartime to Move and Inspire You
New York Post
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
The best beach reads for summer 2025
30 'Atomsphere' is written by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books) The phenomenally popular author of 'Malibu Rising' and 'Daisy Jones and the Six' returns with another novel — once again focused on an ambitious female protagonist and with nods to recent history. In the early 1980s, Joan Goodwin is thrilled to be chosen for NASA's space shuttle program. But her space dreams confront harsh realities when a rocket mission with her love interest aboard goes very wrong. June 3 30 Camilla Sten is the author of 'The Bachelorette Party.' Advertisement Camilla Sten (Minotaur Books) Four childhood girlfriends meet up every year on a remote Swedish island for a night of fun — until, one year when they mysteriously disappear, never to be seen or heard from again. A decade later, a struggling true-crime podcaster is intent on finding out what happened to the women, and she plans a bachelorette party for her best friend with eerie similarities to the missing women's getaway. June 10 V. E. Schwab (Tor Books) The author of the acclaimed 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' has written a gothic novel about three women vampires whose stories span five centuries as they reckon with their anger and appetites. June 10 Advertisement Chris Pavone (MCD) Drama unfolds both inside and just outside a tony bourgeois-bohemian Manhattan apartment building as the city explodes into race riots after police kill a black man. Beloved doorman Chicky Diaz finds himself carrying a gun to work. Out now Lisa Jewell (Atria Books) When Ash's widowed mother, Nina, starts dating a charming man named Nick, he seems too good to be true — and he is. In the next town over, Martha, a florist with a new baby, begins wondering why her once-devoted husband has been traveling so much for work of late. The three women's paths cross as they learn dark, dangerous truths about Nick in the latest thriller from the bestselling author. June 24 Advertisement Brad Thor July 1 (Atria/Emily Bestler Book) In the 24th Scot Harvath book, the Navy SEAL-turned-spy wrestles with a new administration and a major conspiracy that has far-reaching consequences for the country. July 1 Ocean Vuong (Penguin Press) Vuong, a Vietnamese American poet, won great acclaim with his first novel, 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.' His latest is sent in East Gladness, Conn., where a 19-year-old boy becomes the caretaker for a dementia-addled widow and the two develop an unexpected, powerful bond. Out now Advertisement Megan Abbott (G.P. Putnam's Sons) After their family's wealth fades with the decline of the auto industry, three sisters in suburban Detroit get wrapped up in a pyramid scheme called The Wheel. It promises women wealth and independence, but it comes at a steep price. June 24 Maria Reva (Doubleday) This darkly comic debut is drawing raves. In Ukraine, just before Russia invades, a quirky snail scientist — who funds her work by touring around Westerners looking for mail-order brides — embarks on a road trip with two other young women in the marriage industry. They also have some kidnapped bachelors in tow. June 3 Carl Hiaasen (Knopf) Set in Florida, this farce skews our polarized times with an assortment of over-the-top characters, including a wannabe Proud Boy, an environmentalist with anger issues and millions of dollars in inherited wealth, a recent divorcee working for a questionable philanthropy, scandal-plagued politicians and plastic surgery-obsessed billionaires. Out now Susan Choi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) With her 2019 National Book Award winner 'Trust Exercise,' Choi played with perspective and she continues to do so with her latest. One nigh, 10-year-old Louisa goes for a walk with her dad on the beach. He disappears and she nearly drowns and washes up on the shore. That tragic, mysterious evening is recounted from the perspective of various characters as Louisa tries to make sense of her family's complicated past, including her dad's kin in Japan and North Korea. Advertisement Emily Henry (Berkly) The blockbuster rom-com author delivers a delightful new read in which a fledgling writer finds herself competing for the story with a Pulitzer Prize winner. Both have traveled to Little Crescent island to write about a mysterious octogenarian heiress. She offers them each a trial period to see who can best tell her story, but the two writers have to contend with plot twists — and their unshakeable chemistry. Out now 30 Nora Roberts is the author of 'Hidden Nature.' Nora Roberts (St. Martin's Press) A police office returns home to live with her parents while recovering from being shot (and getting dumped), then gets swept up in a string of unsolved missing person cases, in the latest from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author. May 27 Advertisement 30 'Hotter in the Hamptons' is written by Tinx. Tinx (Bloom Books) As Tinx, the content creator Christina Najjar has gained a reputation for being 'TikTok's older sister,' offering up frank dating advice on her podcast and in her bestselling book 'The Shift.' Now, she's jumping into fiction with this tale of a bisexual NYC It girl who has a steamy fling with a cultural critic who has written a brutal takedown of her. The book has already been optioned for TV with Sara and Erin Foster — of 'Nobody Wants This' fame — set to produce. Out now 30 'In Pursuit of Beauty' is written by Gary Baum. Gary Baum (Blackstone) A Hollywood Reporter journalist known for his dishy investigative pieces has penned a novel about a top Beverly Hills plastic surgeon on a controversial crusade. Dr. Roya Delshad pioneers the idea of 'beauty reparations,' providing low-income folks with free procedures. When her attractiveness activism lands her in jail, she hires a ghostwriter to help her write her memoir — and salvage her reputation. July 1 Advertisement 30 S.A. Cosby is the author of 'king of Ashes.' S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar) A patriarch in a crime-ridden Virginia town ends up in a coma after a car crash, and his adult children — older son and money man Roman, troubled younger brother Dante, and depleted sister Neveah — come to realize that it was no accident. June 10. 30 'The Magician of Tiger Castle' is written by Louis Sachar. Advertisement Louis Sachar (Ace) The author of the iconic 1970s kids book 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' — and the award-winning 'Holes' — has written his first adult novel. In a far-off kingdom, a struggling magician must choose between salvaging his reputation or casting a spell on his princess friend so she'll go through with marrying a man she doesn't love. August 5. 30 'Never Flinch' is written by Stephen King. Stephen King (Scribner) A detective investigates deadly threats by a person seeking brutal revenge, while a feminist speaker fears for her safety as she tours the country, in the suspense master's new novel. It features characters both new and familiar, such as Holly Gibney, an OCD private investigator with an amazing memory who appears in many King books. May 27. 30 Michael Connelly is the author of 'Nightshade.' Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) Office politics push a Los Angeles police detective out of his job, and he ends up on sleepy Catalina Island investigating petty crimes and drunken disputes. Then the body of a Jane Doe is found in the harbor, and there are reports of illegal poaching. Suddenly, the peaceful island is fraught with danger and secrets. Out now. 30 Jemimah Wei is the author of 'The Original Daughter.' Jemimah Wei (Doubleday) In this buzzy debut, two ambitious, competitive sisters come of age in working-class Singapore, navigating the gaps in their success and a complicated relationship fraught with both love and envy. Out now. 30 Christopher J. Yates is the author of 'The Rabbit Club.' Christopher J. Yates (Hanover Square Press) A Los Angeles nepo baby heads to Oxford to study English literature and gains entrance into a menacing secret society in this dark, twisty thriller from the author of the acclaimed 'Black Chalk.' July 8. 30 'The River is Waiting' is written by Wally Lamb. Wally Lamb (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books) Lamb has had not one but two Oprah's Book Club picks — 'She's Come Undone' and 'I Know This Much Is True' — in his career. His first novel in eight years centers on a young Connecticut dad named Corby who loses his job, struggles with addiction, and causes a tragedy that sends him to prison for three years. On the inside, Corby struggles while coming across a number of memorable characters. On the outside, his wife questions whether she should remain married to him. June 10. 30 'Shield of Sparrows' is written by Devney Perry. Devney Perry (Entangled: Red Tower Books) Perry, the author of the popular 'Treasure State Wildcats' series, makes her romance debut. A princess must embark on a journey with a notorious monster slayer in accordance with an ancient treaty. Out now. 30 'Silver Elite' is written by Dani Francis. Dani Francis (Del Rey) In a dystopian future, a young woman with psychic abilities gets the chance to join the enemy's ranks — and fight the powers that be from within. This is the first book in a new romance series, and it's been blowing up on BookTok, in part because of questions about the true identity of the author. Out now. 30 'Songs of Summer' is written by Jane L. Rosen. Jane L. Rosen (Berkley) A young woman who owns a record shop starts questioning her future — and her plans to marry her best friend from childhood — after stumbling on some letters she wrote herself as a teen. She ends up going to Fire Island to search for her birth mother and meets a cute local guy along the way. Out now. 30 Stuart Woods is the author of 'Finders Keepers.' Brett Battles (G.P. Putnam's Sons) In the latest Stone Barrington novel, the ex-NYPD cop takes a friend's recently divorced daughter under his wing and shows her around the city. But when bad things start happening to several men from her past, Barrington must connect the dots before time runs out. June 3. 30 Freida McFadden is the author of 'The Tenant.' Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen Press) After he's suddenly fired from his job as a VP of marketing, Blake Porter rents out a room in his brownstone to help cover the mortgage. His new tenant seems lovely at first, but disturbing things start happening, in the latest from the bestselling author of 'The Housemaid.' Out now. 30 Karin Slaughter is the author of 'We Are All Guilty Here.' Karin Slaughter (William Morrow) The blockbuster author of the Will Trent books is kicking off a new series with this mystery set in a small town called North Falls. When two teenage girls go missing, Officer Emily Clifton vows to find her daughter's friends, but the teens are hiding unexpected secrets. Aug. 12. 30 'With a Vengeance' is written by Riley Sager. Riley Sager (Dutton) In 1954, Anna Mattheson had a plan to get the six people who ruined her family on a train, where she'll confront them and they'll admit their wrongdoings and get arrested when the train stops. But things take a turn when a passenger is murdered, and it becomes clear that Anna isn't the only one onboard who's out for revenge. June 10. 30 'The Woman in Suite' is written by Ruth Ware. Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press) In Ware's bestselling 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' travel journalist Lo Blacklock looked for answers after a woman on a luxury cruise was thrown overboard. Here, Blacklock goes to cover the opening of a tony hotel in Switzerland but soon finds herself swept up in a dangerous pursuit across Europe involving the supposed mistress of the hotel's billionaire owner. July 8.
NBC News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
'Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' author Taylor Jenkins Reid comes out as bisexual
Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author of several bestselling novels including "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," "Daisy Jones & The Six" and "Malibu Rising," came out as bisexual in an interview with Time magazine. 'It has been hard at times to see people dismiss me as a straight woman, but I also didn't tell them the whole story,' the author told the outlet in an interview published May 15. Reid, whose new novel, "Atmosphere," comes out June 3, said assumptions about her sexuality are nothing new for her. In fact, she said, they began when she was a teenager and dressed differently than the social norm. 'I got hit pretty quickly with, 'Why can't you dress more like a girl? Why don't you do your nails? Why do you talk that way? Can't you be a little bit quieter?'' she told Time. 'I started to get people who would say, 'Oh, I get why you dress like a boy—you're gay.'' But, Reid said, she didn't feel like she identified with being labeled as gay, as she was attracted to both sexes — her first love was a man and then, in her early 20s, she fell in love with a woman. With both loves, however, people doubted if it was the right course for her. 'This was the late '90s, so nobody was talking about bisexuality. And if they were, it was to make fun of people,' she said. 'The messages about bisexuality were you just want attention, or it was a stop on the way to gayville." In her writing, Reid hasn't been shy when it comes to depicting characters who fall along different points of the sexuality spectrum. In 'Daisy Jones & The Six,' the main romance centers around a heterosexual love triangle, while 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' details a love story between two women. Meanwhile, ' Malibu Rising" showcases mainly heterosexual relationships, but one character experiences a queer awakening. Her new book, 'Atmosphere,' allowed Reid to explore more of her attraction to women. The novel features a love story between one woman in outer space and one on earth. 'It just felt like time for me to write a very high-stakes, dramatic love story,' she told Time. While she may not have always been open with the public about the specifics of her sexuality, she told Time that she was always honest with those closest to her. Her husband, screenwriter Alex Jenkins Reid, even introduced her to an idea that describes someone's sexuality as a house with many rooms. 'My attraction to women is a room in the house that is my identity — Alex understood ["Atmosphere"] was about me spending time in that room,' Reid said. 'He was so excited for me, like, 'What a great way for you to express this side of you.' And he helped me get the book to be as romantic and beautiful as it could be.' Reid also said she understands being married to a man gives her 'straight-passing' privileges that other queer women don't receive. 'How do I talk about who I really am with full deference to the life experiences of other people?' she told Time. 'Basically, where I came down is I can talk about who I am, and then people can think about that whatever they want.'
