TODAY: In 1950, George Orwell dies.
- A very odd night in a possibly fake North Korean village. | Literary Hub
- Specimens of tastelessness drawn from the blabbings of contemporaries: Janet Malcolm on Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life. | NYRB
- “I don’t like you very much and I don’t think you’re fascinating.” A short story by Diane Williams. | Electric Literature
- “As a citizen, as a poet, as a woman, as a human being, [I knew] that I could run a campaign as much as the next person.” Looking back at Eileen Myles’s presidential campaign. | Jezebel
- Morgan Parker on the unmistakably cool jazz aesthetic, the unromantic nature of publishing, and the fearlessness truth requires. | Coldfront
- On Paterson Joseph’s one-man show about Ignatius Sancho, a passionate man of letters and the first black citizen to cast a ballot in the United Kingdom. | The New Yorker
- Captive or prey: Christian Lorentzen on Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You. | Vulture
- A translated collection of Haida oral literature, which Margaret Atwood has described as “a work of music built from silent images,” will be published in the UK thanks to her endorsement. | The Guardian
- Against the “self-replicating machine of This Is What Important Literature Looks Like.” A list of women-run presses. | VIDA
Also on Literary Hub: 10 Over 75: a reading list of the old and wise · On our love-hate relationship with parenting books. · Advice for a harmonious family life: from Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun
