TODAY: In 1910, Nadar (the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist, is born.
- On the power of political change delivered through YA literature. | Literary Hub
- Victoria Newton Ford on Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the horror of black hypervisibility. | Literary Hub
- How to host a literary event: Jen Michalski on learning what it takes to hold a room. | Literary Hub
- From George Orwell to Alice Munro, a brief history literary birth control. | Literary Hub
- Kaitlyn Greenidge, Tony Tulathamitte, and eight other young writers win $50,000 Whiting Awards. | Literary Hub
- On celebrity-penned children’s books, some of which are “little more than another addition to the personal brand, to go alongside the perfume, fitness DVD and fashion label.” | The Guardian
- Amazon, everyone’s favorite mom-and-pop bookseller, has opened a fifth physical store in Chicago (stocking only books with an average rating of 4.5 stars or higher). | Business Insider
- “I’ve always had the theory that you can kind of tell how a comic artist grew up by looking through their comics and seeing the way they draw.” An interview with Wilson cartoonist Daniel Clowes. | Vulture
- Jack Jones Literary Arts has announced a new two-week writing retreat exclusively for women of color. | Jack Jones
- How Mary Gaitskill and Ottessa Moshfegh write female characters who “deftly sidestep the conundrum of ‘likeability.’” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Language is just a trash fire we use to try to get a point across.” An interview with Sasha Fletcher. | Full Stop
- The largest collection of Saul Bellow’s papers is now open for research at the University of Chicago. | UChicago News
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