TODAY: In 1926, Harper Lee is born.
- The First 100 Days: Calling a lie a lie: PEN America on the President’s whoppers · On the bizarre pseudo-historical belief system behind White Nationalism · How to resist tyranny, step one · Danuta Hinc spent 25 years trying to forget politics, but can no longer. | Literary Hub
- Life in the North Country: Love, hate, and the perils of brotherhood. | Literary Hub
- John Sandford will finally read Proust if you set him up in a hammock. | Literary Hub
- Anne Elizabeth Moore: “I’ve always watched a lot of horror films, but as I started to get sick I connected more deeply to the monster narrative.” | Literary Hub
- A revisionist take on beloved children’s classic The Giving Tree. | Book Marks
- James Patterson will write a true crime book about Aaron Hernandez, to be published in early 2018. | CBS
- David Marcus on Marshall Berman, who “was perhaps at his most animated when pairing the personal with the political, human feeling and everyday life with political ideas.” | The Nation
- How Renée Watson’s I, Too Art Collective is working to turn Langston Hughes’ home, which went back on the market in 2016, back into a community space. | NYLON
- From Stephen King in Pet Sematary to John le Carré in The Night Manager, authors who’ve made cameos in the TV and film adaptations of their books. | The Guardian
- “I needed to write this book because as a mongrelized person, I feel personally threatened when everybody around me is seeking purity and certainty.” An interview with Mohsin Hamid. | Guernica
- “Do you want to get tattoos?” Amanda Petrusich profiles poet Morgan Parker (and accompanies her to a Brooklyn tattoo parlor). | The New Yorker
Also on Lit Hub: In memory of William “Gatz” Hjortsberg, a writer to the end · The week in literary film and TV · From Josh Emmons’ new story collection, A Moral Tale.
