Tina Jordan

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Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.

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Snowplows are out! That's a sound I haven't heard in a couple of years.

Meet Mary Augusta Ward, the Colleen Hoover of her day. In 1903 and early 1904, her novel "Lady Rose's Daughter" was selling 1,000 copies a week (which would be good even now). www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/b...

Year-end lists from our columnists are starting to go up — here are @oliviawaite.bsky.social's favorite romances.

The Best Romances of 2023www.nytimes.com Here are the novels our columnist loved most.

Book Review editors talk about this year's 10 Best list.

Video: Inside Our Listwww.nytimes.com Three New York Times Book Review editors share books from the “Best Books of 2023” list.

Choosing 100 notable books was tough — but choosing our 10 Best list was even harder.

The 10 Best Books of 2023www.nytimes.com The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.

There were so many terrific books this year that narrowing our list to 100 was HARD.

100 Notable Books of 2023www.nytimes.com Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

That was fast. (Guilty on all seven counts.)

Sam Bankman-Fried Trial: Fallen Crypto Mogul Convicted in Collapse That Cost Users Billionswww.nytimes.com Sam Bankman-Fried, whose FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed last year, was accused of using the firm as his personal piggy bank. Prosecutors said he orchestrated a scheme to steal as much as $10 bi...

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I'm so sad to see the news that Matthew Perry has died. He gave a perfect, delightful, original comic performance on Friends that was a crucial part of the show's success and longevity. And he talked frankly and with great decency about his long struggles. He'll truly be missed.

I put one of those suction-cup birdfeeders on my kitchen window. Took a couple of weeks for the woodpeckers to notice it, but now they have.

Leah Greenblatt's brilliant take on the Britney Spears memoir: "It offers a familiar story of troubled, vertiginous stardom, written in platinum & flashbulbs. But here it has the cadences & stagecraft of a country song: striving, plucky, littered with almost operatic betrayals & misfortune."

In Britney Spears’s Memoir, She’s Stronger Than Everwww.nytimes.com “The Woman in Me” reveals plenty about her life in the spotlight, and tempers well-earned bitterness with an enduring, insistent optimism.

OMG

Dog walker films winds lifting forest floor in Scotlandwww.bbc.com David Nugent-Malone captures the ground "moving like sea" in Mugdock while walking his dog, Jake.

Loved this profile of the Child brothers until I got to the misogynistic crack about Colleen Hoover.

Lee Child leaves Jack Reacher in his brother’s handswww.washingtonpost.com Catching up with Child and his brother Andrew in Wyoming as Andrew takes over the massively popular series

Every year when my (grown) kids ask to go the the Blaze, a nighttime pumpkin spectacle in our town, I groan a little. And then every year I go, and it's amazing. (Yes, this is a sculpture made of intricately carved and lit pumpkins.)

Today in literary history, The Times's review of "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" from Oct. 16, 1892.

"Lewis, who traveled back and forth from the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried was based, had, in the months leading up to the disaster, a front-row seat — from which he could apparently see nothing," Jen Szalai writes.

Even Michael Lewis Can’t Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Friedwww.nytimes.com “Going Infinite,” Lewis’s new book about the disgraced crypto billionaire, defies the author’s winning formula of upbeat narratives and unsung genius.

Just going to add this to my huge file called "the things you find in the NYT archives." It's from 1921.

I was rushing to cross Madison Avenue to get to Grand Central when I saw the Chrysler Building in front of me, illuminated by the setting sun.

What book ads looked like, 1903.

First plum torte of the season.

For your last-gasp-of summer reading, two columns by the inimitable Sarahs: @sarahweinman.bsky.social on new crime novels and Sarah Lyall on the latest psychological thrillers:

New Novels Brimming With Murder, Jazz and Sumptuous Sweetswww.nytimes.com Our crime columnist recommends four September books.

Visit from a neighbor's puppy early on this dreary, rainy Monday morning.

A vacation typewriter, just four inches high, was all the rage in 1921. "It travels with you, an intimate, personal friend, like your pet fishing rod or your golf clubs."

Another pet favorite from the archives.

Love this review by Sarah Bakewell: "It was a rainy day in January 2017, the clocks were striking (almost) 13, Donald Trump was being sworn in as president of the United States, and George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was about to go flying to the No. 1 spot on Amazon."

One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focuswww.nytimes.com Sarah Bakewell examines two new books about Mr. and Mrs. Orwell.

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Adored this essay by Denise Mina on taking a spin through the Raymond Chandler Universe and why it’s impossible to ignore politics, feminism, and changing social mores:

Opinion | Stepping Into Raymond Chandler’s Shoes Showed Me the Power of Fictionwww.nytimes.com As a crime writer, I’ve learned that the most lurid novels are often the ones with a real chance to make the world a better place.

I've got no shortage of great dog stories from the NYT archives, folks. Another one of my favorites: the Jan. 7, 1911 piece about the famous author Jack London attending the birthday party of a cosseted pup named Fluffy Ruffles.

Drinking a cup of coffee and organizing some of my favorite stories in the NYT archives into various categories (you know: pets, poisoning, dentists, hats etc.) and came across one of my favorites, from Feb. 2, 1908.

"More than 30,000 titles are from Penguin Random House and its imprints, 14,000 from HarperCollins, 7,000 from Macmillan, 1,800 from Oxford University Press, and 600 from Verso."

Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AIwww.theatlantic.com Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

I don't assign as many reviews as I used to, but I still edit four or five columns, including @oliviawaite.bsky.social's — and for my money, she's the best romance novel critic around.

Romance Novels That Celebrate the Hard Work of Lovewww.nytimes.com In these books, love is a choice you make over and over, not just on one day in a white dress.

A delightful essay by Molly Young that looks at an 1848 book which led to a rash of eight-sided houses.

An Eccentric Victorian, His Book and the Giant Pink Pastry of a House He Inspiredwww.nytimes.com In “The Octagon House,” published in 1848, Orson Squire Fowler wondered why anyone would build a four-sided home when they could have an eight-sided one.