John Tyler, America’s 10th president, was born in 1790. As we go vote today in 2024, he still has a living grandson. Read that as many times as you need to fully absorb it.

Our current issue features reviews of books published by HarperCollins,Alfred A. Knopf,NYRB Poets,Astra House,Sarabande Books, and CLASH Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/

Great new Krista Diamond essay on the “grocery girlies” of TikTok: cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a626…

Significant NYT essay from UNLV MFA student Ahmed Naji: nytimes.com/2024/11/11/opi…

Review 31's books of the year — as chosen by Stuart Walton, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen, huda, Jude Cook, @MumblinDeafRo, Anna Aslanyan, John Hay, Nathan Knapp, —, W. J. Davies et al. review31.co.uk/essay/view/126…

I wrote a bit about Forrest Gander’s new book for Review 31: review31.co.uk/essay/view/126…

Kevin McCallister’s dad is reading Thomas McGuane’s 1981 novel “Nobody’s Angel” on the flight to Paris

I wrote about George R. Stewart’s “Fire” for Alta Journal: altaonline.com/books/fiction/…

This week, explore George R. Stewart’s 1948 novel Fire, recently reissued. John Hay delves into its contemporary relevance. bit.ly/49HgENx

From our archive, a review of a biography of the man who introduced the poinsettia to the U.S. marketplace, Lindsay Schakenbach Regele's "Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/biography/

In Susan Warner’s 1883 novel “Nobody,” an elderly woman in a small town learns about the “new fashion”: Christmas trees.

According to a recent paper, the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way, they were born with rich parents.

Bob Seger is better than Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know how many are joining me on this island but I feel like it will be 50% geniuses and 50% guys who make women instinctively lock their car doors.

I know everyone already saw this yesterday and I’m behind but man the depths of anti-intellectualism toward all but their own disciplines from actual real-life professors is so deeply depressing.

The Allman Brothers performing their Grammy-winning song, Jessica, live on their meeting with David Letterman, in 1996.

Proud of my new chapter about 19th-C novelists writing presidential campaign biographies: cambridge.org/core/books/abs…

After the apocalypse Las Vegas has sand and showgirl statues.

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I wrote a little about Pynchon’s new novel for Review 31

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