TODAY: In 2007, short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist, Grace Paley dies.
- An ode to the sun by Karl Ove Knausgaard. | Literary Hub
- Gabrielle Bellot on the sly darkness of Ray Bradbury’s cheery futurism. | Literary Hub
- Sue Grafton’s A to Z series is drawing to a close, but she’s not sure this is the end… | Literary Hub
- How Sigmund Freud tried to break down his fiancée Martha Bernays—and remake her as his idea of a perfect woman. | Literary Hub
- “It is quite evident that the book was not written for the Philistines.” On the anniversary of Kate Chopin’s death, read an 1899 review of The Awakening. | Book Marks
- “For me, the right to say what happens to my body is the right to make art.” Claire Vaye Watkins is hosting an auction to benefit Planned Parenthood, featuring contributions from writers like Lauren Groff, Emma Straub, and Tom McGuane. | Charity Auctions Today
- A “paradigm shift” at the New York Times Books Desk: On changes both recent and forthcoming to the NYT’s books coverage, spearheaded by Pamela Paul. | Publishers Weekly
- “There are no small, benign Nazisms.” An interview with Croatian writer Dasa Drndic. | The Paris Review
- It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the Absolute Boy: Independent graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero will launch a crowdsourced Jeremy Corbyn comic book at this September’s Labour Party conference. | The Guardian
- Norway’s Lydia Davis: On the short fiction of Gunnhild Øyehaug, who at 42 is making her American debut. | The New Yorker
- “We count birds because birds count.” How Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson founded a bird sanctuary on Pelee Island. | The Walrus
- The Academy of American Poets has awarded Jorie Graham this year’s $100,000 Wallace Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award. | San Francisco Chronicle
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