TODAY: In 1885, Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer who, for a time in the 1920s, was one of the highest-paid American writers, is born.
- When lunch with Joni Mitchell turns into a 12-hour conversation (you don’t watch the clock). | Literary Hub
- How to organize your reading life: an incomplete illustrated guide. | Literary Hub
- A day in the life of a freelancer: Lorraine Berry on trying to make a living as a writer. | Literary Hub
- On the dangers of romanticizing gentrification: a brief survey of the New York City novel. | Literary Hub
- The pleasure of taking risks in your writing (that you wouldn’t dare take in real life). | Literary Hub
- George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo. | Literary Hub
- “Everyone’s got an opinion, but that doesn’t mean that everyone’s a critic.” Speaking with book critic Heller McAlpin. | Book Marks
- “With his female androids, he is Pygmalion, bringing his Galatea to life. But with his own replica, he is Narcissus, staring into his reflection for hours.” Alex Mar profiles Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. | Wired
- I almost bought it as a joke: Eileen Myles on discovering Jean Stafford’s The Mountain Lion in a Marfa thrift shop. | The Paris Review
- “There’s a relationship between xenophobia and the rejection of literature, because literature demands empathy.” An interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen. | Longreads
- Yrsa Daley-Ward, Danez Smith, and other contemporary black poets share some of their favorite poems. | NYLON
- The saga of American Heart’s retracted Kirkus star has become “the latest skirmish in the increasingly contentious battle over representation and diversity in the world of YA literature.” | Slate
- For T Magazine’s 2017 Greats issue, Alexander Chee profiles director Park Chan-wook and Dave Eggers profiles Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. | T Magazine
- To be or not to be; that Riz the question: Riz Ahmed is in talks to be our next (and best) Hamlet. | Deadline
