TODAY: In 1950, film noir Gun Crazy is released; Co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed under Millard Kaufman‘s name because of the former’s appearance on the Hollywood blacklist.
- Celeste Ng talks to Mira K. Lee about craft, identity, and lifting up fellow writers. | Literary Hub
- 11 pop songs for literary people (this one’s for you, folks). | Literary Hub
- During World War II, reading books was the all-American pastime. | Literary Hub
- “Who is Regina Nadelson and why is she behaving like Harriet Beecher Stowe, another simpatico white girl who felt she was privy to the secret of how black revolutionaries got that way?” Toni Morrison’s scathing review of the 1972 biography Who Is Angela Davis? | Book Marks
- Jenny Zhang, Victor LaValle, Carmen Maria Machado, and more: the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards finalists have been announced. | PEN America
- “Immortality has never worked out well for anyone. Avoid it at all costs.” 10 things Karen Joy Fowler learned from Ursula K. Le Guin. | The Paris Review
- André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name, on watching the filming of “the most difficult and, perhaps, most important scene in my novel” (no, not that one). | Vanity Fair
- “Does Sleeping Beauty care about goodness?” Answer: no. Traditional folktales were never about morality—so why is the culture they spawned so obsessed with the battle between good and evil? | Aeon
- On Modern Loss, a new anthology that “attempts to normalize conversations about loss to minimize the loneliness and awkwardness of grieving,” particularly among the millennial set. | Broadly
- “You wrote this book in four months?—that’s incredible. Other people in media are going to hate you.” Mary H.K. Choi and Richard Lawson in conversation. | Publishers Weekly
- words are beautiful I guess: A new poem by Ben Fama. | BOMB Magazine
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