Emma Straub

And I'm reading some beach reads on the side, too.

I particularly have... have loved Emma Straub's new book.

And there are just so many great works of literature coming out these days, especially from women authors.

So I invite people to send Rex my way.

Things can still get stuck in adaptation hell.

But Emma Straub, who is a saint walking among us, Instagrammed this week that there was mail sent out in her neighborhood of Brooklyn where the Netflix studio is scouting for houses to film some of the scenes and the corrections.

And I was like, all right, it's actually happening now.

Just proof of life is all I want.

So may I ask you, what is the best book that you read recently?

recently?I recently read American Fantasy by Emma Straub.

Um, and it's-

Oh, I love her, but I haven't, I haven't read that one yet.

You have places like Books Are Magic.

It is owned by the best-selling novelist Emma Straub and her husband.

They started in Cobble Hill, expanded to Brooklyn Heights, and they've created these incredibly stylish, deeply community-oriented spaces.

Their author events are legendary