TODAY: In 1925, The Great Gatsby is published.
- Not so great after all? One hundred one-star Amazon reviews of The Great Gatsby. Yes, one hundred. | Lit Hub
- From Iranian-American short stories to fictional Roosevelts, five books you may have overlookedin March. | Lit Hub
- Jessica Friedmann on blood, birth, and the talismanic power of red lipstick. | Lit Hub
- 5 writers, 7 questions, no wrong answers: Leslie Jamison, Sloane Crosley and more take the Lit Hub author questionnaire. | Lit Hub
- “I am a reporter, I tell myself, because that is better than being a person with an obsession.” Piper Weiss looks back at her encounters with a predator and comes to terms with a lifelong obsession. | CrimeReads
- Greek myths and sharp wits: 5 books making news this week. | Book Marks
- “I had to lose almost everything and then some. And then some. Before I finally put out my hand.” Junot Díaz on confronting his childhood trauma. | The New Yorker
- “Even if you read the Greek tragedies or the myths, you have a lot of stories about women killing their children and things that are very violent because this is a very primal fear.” An interview with Leïla Slimani. | The Cut
- “The only way to get people seeing us not as a monolith is to have more of our stories out there.” On diversity in publishing and a new wave of Asian American YA novelists. | Entertainment Weekly
- Michelle Tea on San Francisco’s HAGS, “a motley crew of surly twentysomethings resembling Peter Pan’s Lost Boys if the Lost Boys were girls, the sort of girls who look like the sort of boys who might break a beer bottle over your head at a club.” | The Believer
- “Most of the time, no one can tell I’m in pain by looking at me.” Nafissa Thompson-Spires on writing with a chronic illness. | The Paris Review
- Books by Jay Asher, Angie Thomas, Sherman Alexie and Khaled Hosseini are among the most challenged of 2017. | ALA
- The shortlist for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize has been announced. | Goethe-Institue
