TODAY: In 1940, Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies.
- Valeria Luiselli and the choices people make in coming to America—and staying. | Literary Hub
- Yeah, but is it an essay? Ken Chen argues out loud with a disembodied interlocutor from the distant future, on the subject of the essay. | Literary Hub
- Kanishk Tharoor on a story collection that travels through space and time. | Literary Hub
- “Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality.” And other steamy sweet nothings from Melville to Hawthorne. | Literary Hub
- Ask the Publicists: Umm, what exactly is the difference between marketing and publicity? | Literary Hub
- Esteemed poet and scholar Kevin Young will take over as the New Yorker’s poetry editor in November. | The New York Times
- Emily Ruskovich on 10 rural American novels that capture the “danger and beauty, hostility and hope” of life in the country. | The Guardian
- Eimear McBride, Colum McCann, and other Irish writers recommend books that capture the country for them. | The Irish Times
- A good story builds its own form, sort of mollusk-like: An interview with Sam Allingham. | One Story
- Martha Anne Toll on 5 recent and forthcoming books that tackle “America’s long, fraught wars over reproductive rights.” | The Millions
- “When you look down and your own nipples have tiny mouths and they’re whispering to you that you have food in your teeth, it’s time to clean up and dry out and straighten up and fly right.” Short fiction by Glenn Taylor. | Oxford American
- “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE NEVER READ A BOOK BY A WOMAN?” What to do (and recommend) when confronted with a man who hasn’t read a single woman writer. | Signature Reads
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