TODAY: In 1922, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie and Clive Bell, hosted by English art patron and novelist Sydney Schiff, dine together in Paris, at the Hotel Majestic.
- Ada Calhoun on the absolute horror of getting it wrong in print. | Literary Hub
- About suffering, Robert Lowell was never wrong: Dan Chiasson on America’s aristocratic poet-genius. | Literary Hub
- Gone too soon: on the literary heirs of W.G. Sebald, who would have been 73 today. | Literary Hub
- Poet and novelist Sjón talks to Paul Holdengraber about travel, storytelling, and how to defy Iceland’s isolation. | Literary Hub
- Reading Joan Didion in the midst of depression, trying to Play It As It Lays. | Literary Hub
- A hybrid of a book that obliterates time and defies comparison: Read a 1998 review of The Rings of Saturn, on what would have been W. G. Sebald’s 73rd birthday. | Book Marks
- Laura Kipnis and HarperCollins have been named in a defamation lawsuit filed by a Northwestern graduate student whose case featured prominently in Kipnis’s book Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. | Jezebel
- For the New York Times Magazine’s Health issue, read Joyce Carol Oates, Karen Russell, Junot Díaz, and Mohsin Hamid on roosters, hermit crabs, mongooses, and black kites. | The New York Times Magazine
- “The word thief summed up the common enemy. Why there was no supper the previous night; why their children were not on their way to school.” An excerpt from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu. | Recommended Reading
- Get Out director Jordan Peele will adapt Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel Lovecraft Country into a TV series for HBO. | Deadline
- Newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron has named Françoise Nyssen, CEO of “one of the most prestigious and successful French language publishers in the world,” Culture Minister. | Artnet News
- Though Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac is considered an American classic, the sayings within “were not American, and for the most part Franklin didn’t write them.” | The Awl
- The Poetry Foundation has named Margarita Engle as the next Young People’s Poet Laureate; she will succeed current laureate Jacqueline Woodson on June 12. | Publishers Weekly
Also on Lit Hub: Sanderia Faye on the Kimbilio Center for Fiction and creating the scene she needed · On the workshops of the NY Writers Coalition · “Language,” a new story from Daisy Johnson’s collection.
