TODAY: In 1901, O. Henry is released from prison after serving three years for embezzlement.
- How Patti Smith brought rock n’ roll to New York City poetry. | Literary Hub
- The invention of the rural hipster: the one great move back to the land that started it all. | Literary Hub
- Mothers who leave: on abandonment, loneliness, and survival. | Literary Hub
- The most anthologized poems of all time (an exhaustive, if not scientific, study). | Literary Hub
- A self that responds to all other suffering: Read a 1966 review of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. | Book Marks
- The first trailer for Danny Strong’s J.D. Salinger biopic, Rebel in the Rye (yes, really), has been released. | Vulture
- “Girlhood is a story of desire; innocence; fall from innocence; being desired; being not desired; being desired by the wrong people; by dangerous people; by the right people; by excitingly dangerous people. There’s so much storytelling in girlhood.” An interview with Jenny Zhang. | Office
- “Think Pokémon Go, but more historically challenging, with a soupçon of celluloid glamour.” How David Wise created The Atlas Pursuit, an interactive digital novel in which readers gather clues from New York City landmarks. | The New York Times
- Those enthusiastic literary necromancers who regularly summon Austen’s ghost: on Janeites and cosplaying Regency cotillions. | The Atlantic
- A new play by Mohammad Al Attar imagines Syria as a man in a coma, “unable to return to how things were before and uncertain of what comes next.” | The New Yorker
- Comics aren’t just for kids anymore, but when it comes to the ones that are, “business is booming.” | NPR
- “The novelist’s eyes are fierce, his baldness emphasized and egg-like.” On an exhibition at the Morgan Library of Henry James’s many portraits. | New York Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Finding Neverland: a trip to the island that inspired a dream · On memoirs of leadership by black women · From Jesus Carrasco’s new novel, Out in the Open.
