TODAY: In 1894, author and illustrator of The Egg Tree, Katherine Milhous, is born.
- Hannah Lillith Assadi on growing up with ghosts in the Arizona desert. | Literary Hub
- “No, I am not stalking you.” Michael Frank meets his Danish translator and has his mind blown. | Literary Hub
- Some of us are born into addiction: on discovering booze writing as a way of fending off alcoholism. | Literary Hub
- The bleeding heart and quickest tongue of Castro Street: on the anniversary of Harvey Milk’s assassination, read a 1982 review of Randy Shilts’ Milk biography, The Mayor of Castro Street. | Book Marks
- The New York Times 2017 Notable Books list is here. |The New York Times
- And Jennifer Egan, Pankaj Mishra, and George Saunders (among many others) weigh on their favorite books of the year. | The Guardian
- “The task is always to write every single piece like it’s your only one.” An interview with Parul Sehgal. |SSENSE
- Kentucky bookmaker Gray Zeitz still creates books one at a time on his 1915 printing press. | NPR
- “Talking to my kids about what we’re looking at helps clarify my thinking, much as reading aloud something you’re writing can sharpen a sentence.” Rumaan Alam on how his children have changed the way he looks at art. | The New Yorker
- I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was being trolled: Sara Nović visits the evangelical theme park Ark Encounter, which features “a replica of Noah’s Ark built to biblical specifications.” | Harper’s
- “All I really felt like writing was my obituary, but even that proved too difficult an exercise.” A veteran on the difficulty of returning to his writing life after two deployments in Iraq. | The Atlantic
