TODAY: In 1932, William Faulkner accepted a job offer to be a screenwriter in Hollywood; later he wrote: “I have spent years doing work… which was not my forte and which I was not equipped to do.”
- Jim Shepard on Janusz Korczak, innocence, and the Holocaust. | Literary Hub
- Tea with Harold Bloom, Valentina (his stuffed ostrich), MacGregor (a wombat toy), and Gorilla Gorilla (self-explanatory). | Vulture
- Werner Herzog wrote a diaristic novel 40 years ago; it was about walking 600 miles through the snow to magically keep his friend alive. Suck it, Knausgaard. | LA Times
- Some of the words that have been added to the dictionary make us despair for you, young millennials, and fear for the world you have wrought. | Dictionary.com
- It’s easier to fill your “mental hip flask” with aged poems, it appears: on the difficulty of memorizing contemporary poetry. | The American Reader
- “I tend to learn more deeply through failure, so I want to see people failing in stories.” Will Chancellor interviews Catherine Lacey. | The White Review
- And I had to wonder: am I nobody? Are you nobody too? Miranda Hobbes is playing Emily Dickinson in an upcoming biopic. | Variety
- On trapping oneself in stories, being hungry to write, and memory: an interview with Amelia Gray. | The Atlas Review
- The capitalist world imitates the Internet: 99% of that which is produced is trash. | The New Inquiry
- Today in awards: Alice Notley has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize; the finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards were announced. | Poets & Writers, Three Percent
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