Blog Posts by Subject: Popular Culture

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is only good advice if you can tell the difference between the two.

If you've just seen the movies of this genre (most of which are adapted from books!), or you've only read 'Gone Girl' and 'The Girl on the Train,' then you've only hit the tip of the literary iceberg. 

Nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning and, predictably, the literary world was well represented.

If you were drawn into the 'Station Eleven' universe and are looking to stay "on the wheel," here are some reading suggestions for similar tales of survival after civilization's collapse, and moving forward from loss and seismic change.

Before you get inspired to leave your big city job to settle down with your ruggedly handsome childhood crush who owns a struggling toy store, cozy up with a new holiday novel guaranteed to give you the same cozy, familiar feelings as your favorite holiday movie. 

The trend of adapting books into film and television shows is at full throttle. Here are a list of adaptations that are out now or will be available soon. They include literary fiction, sci-fi and fantasy bestsellers, a children's classic, and even a few works of nonfiction. 

Whether you've just seen the movie and want to immersing yourself in the world of Dune, or you want to initiate yourself with the book (or books) before you see it, the Library can hook you up.

Ted and friends will have more time on their hands in the off season and, let's face it, many of them could really use it to get their mental houses in order. These books may hold the heaping spoonfuls of truth soup they need to work on themselves and come back strong next season.

'Squid Game's' central themes of survival and morality are familiar ones in literature, and while the show is certainly its own unique (and intense!) experience, these books offer some of the same dark thrills.

The annual Emmy awards, recognizing excellence in television, take place this Sunday and—not unusually—feature many programs with strong ties to books. Especially if you've run out of things to watch, take a look at some of the nominated shows and the books that inspired them or related reading.

As these novels show, the campus setting—a fishbowl of heightened tensions and grievances—is ripe for literary exploration.

If you love 'Starstruck' and other stories of odd couples and star-crossed lovers, check out these joyful stories of people who just can’t be together...until they can. 

Enjoy the riffs, reinterpretations, and reimaginings of these contemporary retellings of classic novels including much of Jane Austen's oeuvre, 'Jane Eyre', 'Anne of Green Gables', 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Little Women', and more!

After nearly a decade off the air, 'Gossip Girl' is back and she’s off Blogspot and on Instagram. Before we dive into a new era, we’re taking a look back at the show that inspired it all and making reading recommendations for our favorite Upper East Siders.

Whether you never read the book series, are looking for similar small-town romances, or want an uplifting book about starting over, we've got reading recommendations while you wait for another season of 'Virgin River'.

While you wait for a second season of the thrilling TV drama, we have some suspenseful YA books to suggest that will satisfy a craving for deception, secrecy, and the slow unraveling of the truth.

These books make great companion reads for the film if you're inspired to learn more about the musicians who performed at the Harlem Cultural Festival, this era of music and its intersection with activism, and Harlem's cultural importance.

Whether you love to cook, love to eat, or just can't get enough of your Top Chef favorites, there's a book here that's sure to inspire.

If you enjoy the intensity and blurred boundaries of the therapist-patient dynamic or being a fly on the wall as traumas and anxieties are unwrapped and picked apart, you may enjoy some of the fictional reads below which have psychologists and psychotherapists as the protagonist or that revolve around the experience of therapy.