TODAY: In 1916, writer and fighter pilot Roald Dahl is born.
- Franklin Foer: How technology makes us less free. | Literary Hub
- The deadliest weapon of war never used. | Literary Hub
- The 2017 Man Booker shortlist is here: read interviews and excerpts from Mohsin Hamid, George Saunders, Ali Smith, and more. | Literary Hub
- How Shania Twain made me a writer. (Yes, Shania Twain.) | Literary Hub
- Roald Dahl was so awful his publisher basically fired him. | Literary Hub
- When French cooking (and cookbooks) took over the world. | Literary Hub
- Lessons of my youth: on the resonances between contemporary America and totalitarian Poland. | Literary Hub
- “I truly think my life has been better because of the stories she’s written.” Curtis Sittenfeld on Alice Munro. | The Cut
- AMC is developing a series based on Pulitzer-winner Wesley Lowery’s book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice. | Deadline
- “It was remarkable to read of my own death, I was so used to writing about other people’s.” Donald Hall on the poetry of death and his late wife, Jane Kenyon. | The New Yorker
- “In a place like that border, where extreme things have happened and there’s a great saturation of human experience, it’s particularly interesting to see how people survive their story.” An interview with Border author Kapka Kassabova. | The Paris Review
- Why it is always a good time to reread Moby-Dick. | The New Republic
- “Despite all this generalizing and pigeonholing, African writers are rarely thought to speak to the universal—in the philosophical sense rather than the platitudinous one.” On Kintu and our preconceptions about the African novel. | The New York Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Kapka Kassabova speaks with Kurdish refugees trapped in the borderlands · Eileen Myles, the books in my life: from Little Women to Angela Carter · Read Karen Shepard’s “The Mothers,” from Kiss Me Someone.
