XO Kitty, the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Spin-Off, Releases First Trailer
Netflix has released the trailer for XO Kitty, a To All the Boys spinoff series. The series sees Lara Jean Covey’s little sister Kitty heading to Korea to attend the Korean Independent School of Seoul in an attempt to meet up with her long-distance boyfriend. But when Kitty arrives in Korea, she discovers he has a new girlfriend. The show was created by Jenny Han, author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Summer I Turned Pretty. It stars Anna Cathcart as Kitty and introduces a whole new cast of characters, including Lost’s Yunjin Kim. XO, Kitty premieres on Netflix on May 18.
Mayor Eric Adams Calls Off Unpopular Library Budget Cuts in NYC
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced today that he would back off on budget cuts to New York City’s public libraries. In a statement, Adams said that libraries are “vital centers of learning and enrichment” and that he aims to avoid cutting critical services. Library officials say they are happy about the mayor’s decision, but also caution that there are still $36 million in previously announced budget cuts. The mayor is expected to release an updated version of his budget cut proposal soon.
Dead Ink Books Wins the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
Dead Ink Books has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for Missouri Williams’s debut novel The Doloriad. Dead Ink, Williams, and the entire shortlist for the prize will receive £1,000, split 70:30 between publisher and author. The 10 longlisted titles will receive £300. Writer and critic Lamorna Ash — who was on this year’s judging panel with poet Vanessa Onwuemezi and novelist Isabel Waidner — said of the winning novel, “That such stylistic power is in service of a plot so strange, counter, original, its mood flashing between the tragic, comic and sublime in the most surprising sequencing, raises The Doloriad’s achievement to something astonishing.”
Can You Match the Sci-Fi Opening Line To Its Novel?
How well do you know your science fiction? Test your expertise with this sci-fi opening line quiz full of both hard and soft sci-fi novels.