TODAY: In 2006, Jane Jacobs, journalist, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), and activist best known for her influence on urban studies, dies.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid the equivalent of $55,000 a story for magazine work (and other details relating to his anxiety about selling out). | Literary Hub
- From horizontal misshelves to microaggressions, Fabiana Cabral has the bookseller blues. | Literary Hub
- Life advice from the late Robert Pirsig, who died yesterday at the age of 88. | Literary Hub
- Is crime fiction possible in Duterte’s bloody new Manila? | Literary Hub
- When good people do very bad things: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen investigates morality under pressure. | Literary Hub
- Elizabeth L. Silver finds faith in unexpected places (specifically: a loaf of challah, the NICU). | Literary Hub
- Ariel Levy profiles Elizabeth Strout, whose novels concern “the connections and constraints of small-town life—and the almost erotic ache for something more.” | The New Yorker
- “The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime there are individual spots you can occupy.” Michael Eric Dyson and Mychal Denzel Smith in conversation. | Guernica
- Like all parents, the Woolfs declared their lives changed forever: on Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the 100th anniversary of Hogarth Press. | The Guardian
- “The one thing that’s consistent in my work is that I try to make sense.” An interview with Nikki Giovanni. | The Creative Independent
- Robert M. Pirsing, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, has died at 88. | NPR
- “Could I tell the truth and still protect my marriage?” Dani Shapiro on the complexities of writing about a marriage you want to stay in. | Catapult
- I need to remember / there is bliss to be had in confronting / this pain: Three new poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. | The Lifted Brow
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