Touchstone Launches Pop Culture Website Glommable

Simon & Schuster imprint Touchstone has launched Glommable, an online pop culture hub featuring content from authors, web creators and Internet personalities. The website's inaugural content includes a video interview between Allie Brosh, author of the webcomic and book Hyperbole and a Half, and Felicia Day, author of You're Never Weird on the Internet [Almost]; artwork by Lisa Hanawalt, an animator for the Netflix original animated series BoJack Horseman; an essay by Mary Laura Philpott, social media director at Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tenn., editor of Parnassus's literary magazine, Musing, and author of Penguins with People Problems; and an online quiz, "Which Indie Press are You?" Among Glommable's recurring features will be "Glom o' the Week," a showcase for the work of a particular web creator; "2 Glom or Not 2 Glom," a review-like feature about recent TV shows, movies, albums and books; "Glomtacular" essays about favorite media from various online personalities; and "Lit Wiz," a rotation of book-based surveys and quizzes.

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