TODAY: In 1947, Dutch-language author Astrid Roemer writer is born.
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- Poet Michael Wasson on finding inspiration from Kurt Cobain to life in a rural Japanese village. | Lit Hub
- Julia Ingalls on the origins of the serial killer: modern monster and pop culture celebrity. | CrimeReads
- “I wanted to have a life that would include people the State of California has rendered invisible.” Profiling Rachel Kushner on the cusp of her new women’s prison-set novel. | The New Yorker
- Colette Shade: when fiction pulls back the curtain on American conservatism. | Lit Hub
- A new study of more than 2 million books reveals that on average, books by women are priced 45 percent lower than those by men (and that genres traditionally considered female-oriented are assigned less value by the industry). | Fast Company
- Get to know the nominees for the richest short story prize in the world! | Lit Hub
- “The invention of the space may have been as fundamentally important as the invention of zero in mathematics.” César Aira on a childhood job and learning to type. | Tin House
- “What, then, are the real criteria for membership in this dubious category?” On Curtis Sittenfeld and “chick lit.” | The Paris Review
- Elif Batuman, Kamila Shamsie, Jesmyn Ward, and more: the shortlist for the 2018 Women’s Prize for fiction has been announced. | The Guardian
- “I think of that store and consider it my family.” Kristen Arnett on the joys and comforts of 7-11. | Medium
- “I discovered that most people knew almost nothing about bees.” Paige Embry on the unlikely passion that motivated her first book. | Powell’s
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