I can clearly recall the day my local librarian handed me Judy Blume’s Forever…, a twinkle in her eye. Published in 1975, the novel charts a high school girl’s coming of… Read more »

To paraphrase that old joke (badly), take my Fifty Shades, please. If you’re getting ready for your big spring clean, charity shops in the UK will take your gently worn… Read more »

Almost a year ago to the day, Penguin Random House closed their nearly 500,000 square foot facility in Kirkwood, New York, laying off 286 workers in the process. Coupled with… Read more »

When the news broke that Penguin Random House would be publishing Grey by E.L. James, a sequel/retelling/reboot/deboot? of the Fifty Shades trilogy written from Christian Grey’s POV, it was met by surprise, then massive… Read more »

A sociology professor in Jerusalem has produced the first-ever academic study of Fifty Shades of Grey, and revealed that the book isn’t just a smutty freak bestseller, but actually a… Read more »

Yesterday it was announced that the artist formerly known as Sam Taylor-Wood, who now goes by her married name of Sam Johnson Wood (more on that later) will direct the… Read more »