✨ Whether you're graduating high school or college, preparing to take the leap into the professional world, or looking for a change, there are many ways to find your calling and step into a life of professional and personal fulfillment.
✨ Callings by @storycorps founder Dave Isay shares stories of passion, courage, and commitment from all sorts of individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do.
I'm deeply emotional and profoundly grateful to share the first public unveiling of A TIME TO GATHER: My @nytopinion essay on how Americans are pushing back against loneliness, hate, and division with a renaissance of new rituals that allow us to connect and make meaning together. The entirely grassroots effort may be the greatest untold story in the world today; it's absolutely the story of how hope can triumph over fear. I hope you enjoy A TIME TO GATHER. Even more, I hope it inspires you to create meaningful gatherings of your own that help soften the harsh edges of daily life and restitch our fraying world.
"A generation into the loneliness epidemic, Americans are devising astonishing new ways to gather in real life. Fed up with isolation, polarization and digital saturation, people are flocking to rituals — collective, elective activities that bring us together for recurring shared purpose. Eager participants are reimagining how to mark life, love, health and family — and forging thriving communities in the process.
This groundswell of collective meaning making may be our best shot to counter the divisive algorithms and artificial intimacies of Big Tech. And every person, regardless of background, can join in." 🙏💙📚
#ATIMETOGATHER #bookstagram #ritual
We’re thrilled to announce PROFILES IN COWARDICE by Jacob Weisberg, a sharp and urgent examination of the elites, institutions, and public figures who enabled Trump’s rise through silence, self-interest, and fear.
From media and politics to law, business, and higher education, Weisberg asks the defining question of this era: why did so many people who knew better fail to act?
📖 Profiles in Cowardice is on sale September 15, 2026. Preorder now at the link in bio.
THIS JULY, join @ocean_vuong at an event near you as we celebrate the paperback publication of The Emperor of Gladness, an @oprahsbookclub pick and New York Times bestseller.
✨ “The hardest in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here—even the ghosts agree.”
In East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge, ready to jump... until a voice calls out to him, belonging to an elderly neighbor named Grazina. What happens when you're ready to face the rest of your life? Experience the love, laughter, and friendship between this unlikely duo as Hai becomes Grazina's caretaker, changing their lives and their communities for the better.
RSVP at an event by heading to /appearances or visiting our link in bio.
VERB OF THE WEEK: raven✨
Inspired by @sarahlkaufman ’s Verb Your Enthusiasm, we’re celebrating the words that electrify a sentence, sharpen a thought, and bring writing to life. Because as Kaufman argues, verbs are the engines of language: they “leap off the page, fire our senses, and transform our perceptions.”
Tell us below how you’ll use raven in a sentence this week! 🍔🌮🍕🍟🍗
#VerbYourEnthusiasm #VerbOfTheWeek
Set the soundtrack for your reading 📚🎧Press play on this 90s and 2000s playlist curated by GIRL ON GIRL author Sophie Gilbert, and dive into the songs and artists that shape her standout critique of early-aughts pop culture. Perfect to listen along as you read! Link in bio.
Bruce Feiler is hitting the road! Join the author of A Time to Gather as he shares how ritual shapes our lives and helps us navigate today’s world. For event information, head to the link in bio. A Time to Gather hits shelves May 19. See you on tour!
Boom, bust, and the birth of modern finance. 1873 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Liaquat Ahamed will be here next month! This insightful history on the first global financial calamity is full of riveting anecdotes, lively characters, and sage warnings for our own times.
“Lively . . . An exemplary work of economic history, with many lessons for the present.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Granular and deeply researched, it’s an essential new perspective on the link between capitalism’s boom and bust cycles and the emergence of reactionary political movements.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Still looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? 💐 It’s not too late!
From page-turning novels to thoughtful nonfiction, we’ve got a book for every kind of mom.
Swipe through our Mother’s Day Gift Guide and find something she’ll truly love. 📚💕
For AAPI Heritage Month, we’re celebrating stories that challenge identity and belonging.
@elainehsiehchou ’s Where Are You Really From is a daring, genre-bending collection that explores self-deception, cultural expectations, loneliness, and more. Sharp, surreal, funny, and unsettling all at once, these stories stay with you long after the final page.
Swipe to see why readers are loving it 💫✨
📸: @booksonmysidetable
We are pleased to announce that Murderland by Caroline Fraser has won an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! 🎉🎉🎉
Available in paperback on June 9th, this nonfiction thriller explores how the rise of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s and 1980s were connected to the land they lived on, the water they drank, and the air they breathed.
Win a copy of this "moody masterpiece." (The New Yorker) on Goodreads right now at our link in bio!
