TODAY: In 1885, Pulitzer-prize winning writer of So Big and Show Boat Edna Ferber is born.
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- How to find Michel de Montaigne’s estate (or get hopelessly lost trying). | Literary Hub
- Ideas of America: Trump, Rauschenberg, Whitman, and art in a time of war. | Literary Hub
- How many times am I touched in one week? An informal study of intentional contact. | Literary Hub
- This is a book to accept on its own terms: A look back at three of the earliest reviews of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning magical realist epic. | Book Marks
- “How can I, in good faith, condemn the boxer and not the violence that spawned that boxer?” Walter Mosley on boxing, Floyd Mayweather, and the rewarding of competitive violence. | ESPN
- I just want to remember this forever: A short story by Garth Greenwell. | The New Yorker
- “What happens if I can learn to measure love’s effect, and this love, which feels so real, doesn’t register?” Melissa Febos investigates the musical qualities of the female orgasm. | The Believer
- How Danzy Senna’s New People “chimes with and challenges the larger canon of works that take on multiracial identity,” from Jean Toomer to Fran Ross. | The Baffler
- “Reading his poems required me to give up on looking for a certain kind of meaning that I was used to locating.” Matthew Zapruder recalls his first encounter with the poetry of John Ashbery. | The Paris Review
- The reality of the filth feels honest and upsetting: Jac Jemc on finding inspiration in haunted houses and the photography of Roger Ballen. | Work in Progress
- Mine was to be no typical ceremony: An excerpt from Jarett Kobek’s novel The Future Won’t Be Long. | n+1
Also on Lit Hub: Fact vs. Fiction: Joanna Scott explores the borderlands of storytelling · Five Books Making News This Week: Lindsay Hunter, Deborah E. Kennedy and more · From Paul Yoon’s new story collection, The Mountain.
