YESTERDAY: Ragtime author E. L. Doctorow died.
- Remembering the first reading James Salter ever gave. | Literary Hub
- On our lingering obsession with Joan Didion, a celebrity we have crafted from her own self-description. | The New Republic
- Magnus Mills on buying vinyl, macro vs. micro storytelling, and the unchanging systems of buses. | BOMB Magazine
- Examining the state of short American fiction and interrogating the notion of “experimental” through New American Stories. | Guernica
- Julian Barnes unpacks the global brand of Van Gogh by reading the artist’s letters. | London Review of Books
- On the rising prevalence, and prominence, of literary collaborations. | Hazlitt
- A real no-no: jumping into the pool that Hemingway’s wife built to spite him. | Oxford American
- Ada Limón, Kyle Dargan, and Quan Barry have officially passed into mid-career with their fourth poetry collections. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- The American Book Awards have been announced; winners include Marlon James, Laila Lalami, and Anne Waldman. | Before Columbus Foundation
Also on Literary Hub: We get the book-to-movie adaptations we deserve · A poem by Douglas Kearney · A memoir of a surfing life, Barbarian Days
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