TODAY: In 1764, Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist, translator, and eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, is born.
- America’s enduring pastime: Mets fan Sara Novic on baseball, misogyny, and finally reading The Natural. | Literary Hub
- Lit Hub Folio: Introducing theMystery.doc, Matthew McIntosh’s ambitious, epic, multiform novel. | Literary Hub
- Nadifa Mohamed on what we really lost in the Grenfell Tower fire. | Literary Hub
- On writer/musician/artist Kate Tempest’s genre-defying experiments in radical empathy. | Literary Hub
- How far is too far? Talking to political satirist and New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt about coming up with jokes in the Age of Trump. | Literary Hub
- On making a pilgrimage to one of the world’s most beautiful books. | Literary Hub
- He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine: Three early reviews of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. | Book Marks
- “The fraught discovery of the joy, the misery, the awe of making oneself vulnerable to passion was permanently sealed into the continued rereading of a great novel.” Vivian Gornick on coming of age with D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers. | Harper’s
- On the post-Trump rise of erasure poetry, a form which “can mimic the violence of the state” but also “symbolically restore a voice to the silenced.” | The New Republic
- “Her mother’s abandonment seemed to have given Marnie access inside a whole carnival tent of unwanted discoveries.” Short fiction by Alissa Nutting. | BuzzFeed Reader
- Move over Chipotle: Along with the 92nd Street Y, Xerox has released an anthology of writing about work, featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, and more. | The New York Times
- It is not just imaginary philosophers who love baseball, and it is not just me: On “the most philosophical of games.” | Public Books
- “People only want to see Hasids selling drugs or having gay sex, I told them. They don’t care to watch them study Torah.” On writing a book about the insular world of Chabad-Lubavitch. | Guernica
- In its response to the American Heart backlash, Kirkus “has somehow managed to misapprehend both the nature of reviewing and the nature of books.” | The New Yorker
