TODAY: In 1935, Edna Annie Proulx, a writer for Gray’s Sporting Journal, is born.
  • President Obama’s summer reading list and the inevitable think piece it spawned. | Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian
  • A history of the written word that examines humanity’s relationship to writing (for Plato and Rousseau, it was contentious; for Jesus, it was complicated). | Slate
  • James Baldwin’s FBI file contains 1,884 pages, the result of years of stalking, harassment, and wildly incorrect information. | The Intercept
  • In which Etgar Keret reveals his heroic birth story and very dispiriting writer origin story. | Guernica
  • Benjamin Moser on (figuratively) waking up next to Clarice Lispector and realizing she was the love of his life. | The Paris Review
  • Is it possible to write a poetic thriller? An interview with Helen Phillips. | Slice Magazine
  • There was never a sort of star quality to any of this.” Renata Adler on fear, embarrassment, and the peril of writing. | BuzzFeed
  • Today in honoring our literary past: a virtual recreation of Jazz Age Harlem allows users to immerse themselves in the Harlem Renaissance. | Hyperallergic
  • The Scofield, which offers homage to The Dial and an opportunity to transcend loneliness, has launched. | The Scofield
  • probing investigation into how Europa has turned its books into “social currency,” “a coveted intellectual brand,” and, most significantly, “Instagram fodder.”| T Magazine
  • Pseudo-Aristotle as a proto-E.L. James: on the bestselling sex book of the 1700s. | The Public Domain Review
  • The cultural evolution of melancholy, from source of Romantic genius to cousin of depression. | The Point
  • The body is a person: two poems by Morgan Parker. | PEN American Center
  • New Jersey, the butt of one thousand unimaginative jokes, provides the backdrop for some incredibly imaginative fiction. | Oyster Review of Books
  • Translating texts (ranging from Plato to Radiohead) into forests with Katie Holten’s arboreal typeface. | Asymptote Journal

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  • “When I first arrived at Shakespeare & Company, carrying a small suitcaseGeorge took me in that night, I didn’t have a key, and wouldn’t for weeks.” | Literary Hub
  • Richard Beck on the moral panic of the 1980s, the safety of children, and the myth of recovered memory. | Literary Hub
  • The literary genealogy of Lucia Berlin: American women, masters of the short story. | Literary Hub
  • Andrew Malan Milward went to college to play basketball but left wanting to be a writer. | Literary Hub
  • Kathleen Alcott and Alexandra Kleeman on writing, friendship, and meeting that person whose “brain you’d like to smash into yours until they form a single powerful thinking entity.” | Literary Hub
  • The confessions of a reformed book thief in Wichita, Kansas. | Literary Hub

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