TODAY: In 1933, John Gardner, best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster’s point of view, is born.
- At a writers’ festival in Haifa: where does Palestine end and Israel begin? | Literary Hub
- What Hemingway learned from Joan Miró. | Literary Hub
- Sharon Solwitz on why she decided to write about teen suicide. | Literary Hub
- 9 classic country songs and the books they go best with. | Literary Hub
- On the history of the children’s board book. | Literary Hub
- Jillian Tamaki, Rachel Khong, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Trump’s election has spawned a host of political books, with authors ranging from Hillary Clinton to a former White House stenographer. | The New York Times
- “Regardless that I’ve had countless of these cheap machines each one is ‘baby.’” On Swintec typewriters, the preferred model in prisons. | The New Yorker
- “I was sort of this Cassandra. I would say to people, ‘New York is actually changing. Something is really happening.’ And people would say, ‘New York always changes. Nothing is happening.’” An interview with Griffin Hansbury, the author of Vanishing New York. | Village Voice
- Téa Obreht and Dan Sheehan enumerate the most iconic onscreen kisses, from Wall-E and Eve to Leia and Luke. | Guernica
- Failure, fetishes, and Florida: An interview with Alissa Nutting. | Jezebel
- “If you’d never been to an actual wedding, and had gathered your ideas about their nature from fiction alone, you would imagine them as sites of unremitting carnage and despair.” On the depiction of weddings in novels. | The Cut
- A new exhibition in Queens—the most linguistically diverse area on Earth—invites artists (and viewers) to interrogate the nature of language. | Hyperallergic
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