The movie of "The Tender Bar” is the best I've seen this year. Suggestion: while you wait for it, read the book. I dare you to put it down. headbutler.com/reviews/tender…

Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5

SPECIAL EDITION OF HEADBUTLER.COM: When was the last time this happened: I publish a review on Monday, the writer wins the Nobel Prize on Thursday? (It’s Annie Ernaux) shorturl.at/bmnDP

Prediction: Kanye's stuff pulled from stores and warehouses will be sold for pennies to wholesalers in Africa and Asia, where, in a brutal irony, we'll see his designs on people of color.

How appropriate it would have been if he had died by high heel!

Most of the conversation about SPARE has been: The Royals vs. Harry and Meghan. That's shallow. For me, it's more like this: "Trauma is stored in the body and released in relationships." headbutler.com/reviews/prince…

This is why Clarence Thomas's ties to Harland Crow are much, much worse than fancy vacations.

There’s plenty of ugliness in the world these days, which should make us especially grateful for people like Margaret Renkl, headbutler, and Pema Chödrön who remind us to look for the beauty: headbutler.com/reviews/margar…

How we loved and admired #TinaTurner. Rest in peace and power, Tina — your resilience, ferocity, and seismic soul power will resonate forever. WFUV will honor the legendary Tina Turner, who has passed away at age 83, later and in the days to come. More: buff.ly/3WwKhu6

In all the tributes to Tina Turner, I haven't seen one that points to her superpower: Buddhism. rb.gy/eu1da

Summer in the Hamptons: Time for "On Goldman Pond," my short story about Goldman Sachs buying up Hamptons' real estate. It could easily be non-fiction. headbutler.com/reviews/on-gol…

Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” was published in The New Yorker 75 years ago, in the issue of June 26, 1948. It’s the most famous scary story published in America. The graphic adaptation? Even scarier. Don't sample right before bedtime. shorturl.at/psvB5

Sylvester was Pride Month all by himself/herself. “Sylvester was gay, black, a woman and a man. His sound brought to mind a bright, soft, blue-skied world — one where race and gender no longer divide us and we love whom, when and how we want.” shorturl.at/impNW

President Biden signed a proclamation to honor Emmett Till. He wasn’t the last Black boy to be lynched: that was Michael Donald, in Alabama, in 1981. I wrote that story for the NY Times Magazine. It’s the best, certainly the saddest story I ever wrote. shorturl.at/eghqy

Robin Williams killed himself on August 11, 2014. (Feels like more than 9 years, doesn’t it?) I profiled him ages earlier for New York. He shared pretty much everything with me. Be prepared to laugh…and feel very sad. shorturl.at/dlV34

Louise Gluck has died. You have only to read her to know how her themes – love, hope, age, death, the body, and yes, sex — connect with what you know, what you’ve been thinking, and what you haven’t yet thought. t.ly/ZnOHD

On M.L. King’s birthday, “Parting the Waters,” Taylor Branch’s Pulitzer-winning biography, is the book to read. headbutler.com/reviews/branch/

The Modern Library put “Fifth Business” 40th on its list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. In 272 brisk pages, it covers World War I, sex and love in the 1920s -- and a snowball that misses its target. It’s unforgettable. headbutler.com/reviews/robert…

Super Bowl Sunday. Let someone else make the dip. Read this fantastic 142-page novel you've never heard of and you'll never forget this day. headbutler.com/reviews/the-al…

Head Butler’s Ridiculously Simple Holiday Ham PLUS French Roast Lamb headbutler.com/reviews/head-b…