TODAY: In 1965, Shirley Jackson dies unexpectedly of heart failure during her usual afternoon nap.
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates enumerates his ten desert island books for the bookshop installation One Grand. | T Magazine
  • A David Foster Wallace biopic by any other name (bromance movierom com) would get as much press. | The New Republic, Flavorwire
  • Homosexuality in the African household: Chimamanda Adichie’s and Diriye Osman’s representations of same-sex desire. | Africa is a Country
  • Join us in sobbing at our desks while reading this heartbreaking story by Lidia Yuknavitch. | Guernica
  • On the purposeful formal experimentation and complicated publication history of America’s favorite typer, Jack Kerouac. | Library of America’s Reader’s Almanac
  • Mining August’s “abundance of literary riches” for the most anticipated books of this month. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Shelfari
  • “He is eight and a half times better than me at writing the same book.” A depressing account of submitting a novel under a male pseudonym. | Jezebel
  • On the discrediting of professional writers and #TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter (“I’ve aggregated your tweet under a picture of Hannah Horvath.”) | The New Republic
  • Ukrainian-language and Russian-language, pro-west and pro-Russian, official and independent: the writing life in Ukraine. | Electric Literature
  • Hanya Yanagihara on clickbait, the meaninglessness of author bios, and the continued victory of non-trash over trash. | The Millions
  • Sarah Gerard talks exes (best friend, boyfriend) and the writing they (did, did not) inspire. | The Rumpus
  • Updating Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary for the Twitter age. | The Verge
  • “I think people are sick and tired of seeing my face in the newspaper.” Think again, Knausgaard! An interview with the drummer of Lemen. | VICE
  • A spectrum of literary ambition, from flannel-wearing victim of ennui (Hamlet) to self-proclaimed Artist (The Flamethrowers). | The Oyster Review
  • “At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted… not a cold and bullying prison.” An interview with Ilan Stavans, creator of Restless Books’ prize for immigrant writing. | Publishers Weekly

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  • Memorializing terror and oppression at Celica, the former Slovene military prison turned hostel. | Literary Hub
  • Dale Peck on the dark genius of Shirley Jackson and her unheralded novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle. | Literary Hub
  • Álvaro Enrigue meditates on the Mexican middle-class, the rise of the narcoterrorist, and the symbolic power of the Volkswagen bug. | Literary Hub
  • Alexander Chee looks back at Peter CareyThe Tax Collector and why Carey is a punk rock novelist. | Literary Hub
  • How the “badass women of Polish mythology,” and the rusalka myth inspired Adrienne Celt’s writing. Literary Hub
  • It is everywhere, including our writing: Alexander Chee in defense of the present tense. | Literary Hub
  • Adam Fitzgerald interviews poet Fred Moten, Part I and Part II. | Literary Hub

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