TODAY: In 2009, Hilary Mantel wins The Booker Prize for Wolf Hall.
- Kera Bolonik wonders when is a good time to talk to your children about fascism… | Literary Hub
- Musa Okwonga: This is the last personal essay about race I will ever write. | Literary Hub
- 40 of the creepiest book covers of all time (some of these are legitimately scary and terrible). | Literary Hub
- Introducing fiction/non/fiction, a new Literary Hub podcast: in episode one, Matt Gallagher and Brit Bennett talk to our hosts about Colin Kaepernick and what it means to take a knee. | Literary Hub
- Carmen Maria Machado can tell a very good campfire story: in conversation with Claire Luchette. | Literary Hub
- Ginsberg, Miller, Nin… Jonas Mekas’s encounters with New York celebrity. | Literary Hub
- In honor of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize win, read the first reviews of all seven of his novels. | Book Marks
- “When a famous writer gets a famous prize, we readers are given an opportunity to reread their books, but also to rethink the thoughts that we have had in the past about those books.” Josephine Livingstone on what critics have gotten wrong about Ishiguro’s “inscrutability.” | The New Republic
- From Alexandra Kleeman on Twin Peaks: The Return to Marlon James on cathartic screaming karaoke, six writers recommend their favorite cultural experiences of the year thus far. | The New York Times Magazine
- “I had this sensation that I was no longer myself.” An interview with Meghan O’Rourke about her new poetry collection Sun in Days. | The Paris Review
- A report on the state of racial diversity in romance publishing (spoiler: it’s bad). | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
- “One wonders why a writer as unique and as integral to Québécois literature as Ducharme hasn’t been better served by translation.” The case for reading Quebec’s most reclusive writer, of whom only three known photos are in circulation. | The Walrus
- Image will publish Flannery O’Connor’s teenage journals for the first time this November. | PRWeb
- “Ruefle’s work is a guide and a gift, a chance to find ourselves (and our selves) in a world in which the self is not an enclosure, but an opening.” Nathan Goldman on two books by Mary Ruefle. | The Kenyon Review
