STEAMBOAT GOTHIC (562 pp.)—Frances Parkinson Keyes—Messner ($3.75). Frances Parkinson Keyes (rhymes with eyes) insists that she doesn’t really know how to write a bestseller and doesn’t much aspire to learn; she likes to think of herself as “a woman of letters.” Her readers, who buy her books by the million, find her disavowals hard to believe. So do booksellers; to them, Author Keyes is simply one of the blessings of the trade. Read More...
When the Broad Theater, an independently owned cinema in New Orleans, reopened in April after being shuttered for 13 months, business came back with a bang. Moviegoers, desperate to see a film that wasn’t preceded by hours of scrolling on Netflix in search of something to watch, filled the art house for screenings of Emily Blunt and John Krasinski’s suspenseful sequel “A Quiet Place Part II” and A24’s awards darling “Minari. Read More...
October 24, 2014 5:20 PM EDT
Football fandom may seem obvious — Titans fans live in Tennessee, Seahawks fans live in Seattle — but as this interactive map from Twitter shows, the geographic makeup of NFL loyalties is actually pretty complicated.
To create this map, analysts determined which NFL team has the most Twitter followers in each county across the nation. Some of results make perfect sense, but other aspects of the map are pretty surprising. Read More...
