TODAY: In 1873, Dorothy Richardson, author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 novels, is born. She was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. (Pictured here with husband, illustrator Alan Odle).
- On Rachel Cusk, Joanna Walsh, and the price tag of being a woman. | Literary Hub
- Julie Buntin on the joys and tragedies of teenage girlhood. | Literary Hub
- Russians in the White House: On misinformation, blackmail, and Michael Flynn · Andrew Johnson’s impeachment: a model for Trump? · Reader, I impeached him. | From the Literary Hub archives
- The one thing that might save America from its terrible diet? (The answer is not moving to France.) | Literary Hub
- 8 must-read novels by LGBQT writers from places in which it is illegal to be gay. | Literary Hub
- The Changeling, The Book of Disquiet, and more: Indie booksellers recommend books to read this summer. | Vox
- “Own your name. Own our writing. Do you hear me?” Kiese Laymon on meeting Margaret Walker. | Oxford American
- “Well if the Greek root for ‘poet’ is ‘creator,’ then to remember is to create, and, therefore, to remember is to be a poet.” An interview with Ocean Vuong. | The Creative Independent
- “As the library has grown from a roomful of young Nairobians to an ongoing conversation that spans the continent . . . it’s become clear that Jalada is where the future of African literature is being written.” Aaron Bady on the Jalada literary collective. | Pacific Standard
- In which Catie Disabato explores the new canon of pop star novels. | Full Stop
- I’ve always understood the world through writing, but arriving at that understanding is a long and indirect process of grasping for the right language: An interview with Jessie Chaffee. | The Rumpus
- On the “Appropriation Prize” and the ensuing “fiery debate in the Canadian literary community over race, representation, and, for some, free speech.” | Jezebel
- “Breece Pancake identified so intensely with the coal-mining and farming area of West Virginia in which he was born that he could not have failed to identify with its slow dying as well.” Joyce Carol Oates’ 1983 review of The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake. | Book Marks
And on Literary Hub: When your bookstore becomes a photo-op for tourists. • On the great Juan Rulfo: centenary tributes from Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera and more. • Read from Amelia Gray’s much-anticipated new novel, Isadora.
