TODAY: In 1923, Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, is born.
- Hala Alyan offers the writing advice she wishes she’d gotten when younger. | Literary Hub
- The time Scaachi Koul basically almost died in a fitting room because of a little black skirt. | Literary Hub
- Happy May Day! Amanda Arnold on the forgotten history of working-class literature · Meet the Chinese factory workers who write poems on their phones. | Literary Hub
- 15 books you should definitely read this May. | Literary Hub
- Partying with the best young novelists in America (according to Granta). | Literary Hub
- Margaret Atwood’s genetically engineered nightmare: Lorrie Moore on Oryx and Crake. | Book Marks
- PEN America has published a report on the state of free expression after Trump’s first 100 days in office. | PEN America
- “I’ve never had much talent for making things up.” An interview with Chris Kraus. | The Guardian
- On the cookbook of Georgian princess—and feminist—Barbare Jorjadze, whose recipes “have retained currency through nearly 150 years of cataclysmic changes.” | NPR
- She needed to be on the outside, looking in: An interview with Angela Carter biographer Edmund Gordon. | The Center for Fiction
- How Western literature evolved from cold recitations of actions to “stories that portray minds in all their meandering, many-layered, self-contradictory complexities.” | Nautilus
- From a Justin Bieber-signed can of acne cream to a figurine of Grace Metalious, take a look at John Waters’ kitsch-filled writing room. | The New York Times
- What is the place of culture in the midst of injustice and terror? On Haitian revolutionary writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet. | Public Books
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