TODAY: In 1855, more than two million people join Victor Hugo‘s funeral procession in Paris from the Arc de Triomphe to the Panthéon, where he is buried.
- On the queer literary origins of Wonder Woman, from Sappho to Charlotte Perkins Gilmore… | Literary Hub
- All about my mother: Sherman Alexie on the difficulty of forgiveness. | Literary Hub
- Sex! Moral panic! Why are we so afraid of female desire? | Literary Hub
- At a sword fight, in a Harlem basement, with a time-traveling Musketeer. True story. | Literary Hub
- Michael Frank: revenge through memoir is probably not… a good idea. | Literary Hub
- Secrets of the book designer: designing for a modern feminist icon. | Literary Hub
- Meet Tunglið, the small Icelandic press that prints its books in batches of 69 on the night of a full moon—and burns every unsold copy. | The Guardian
- “The way some people see themselves reflected in hip-hop, I saw myself in urban fiction.” An interview with Noëlle Santos, the woman working to open what would be the Bronx’s only bookstore. | Broadly
- “While others are sniffing the roses, we have our bottoms in the air and noses to the ground.” Charlotte Mendelson on a gardening book for people who hate (stuffy, English) gardening books. | The New Yorker
- Do read your work out loud; don’t write within arm’s length of a thesaurus: John Grisham’s advice for writing popular fiction. | The New York Times
- “I think saying negative things is really a basic human need.” Katherine Heiny on gossip, staying friends with your exes, and Mary Higgins Clark. | Electric Literature
- The Center for Fiction has announced its 2017 class of Emerging Writer Fellows. | The Center for Fiction
- “He worked steadily, diligently, almost continually.” On the exaggerated mythology that Fitzgerald was a victim of his own success. | The New Republic
Also on Lit Hub: Imbolo Mbue on writing about the Financial Crisis · How to brand your reading series · A first look at Francesca Segal’s new novel, The Awkward Age ·
