TODAY: In 1892, University of Oxford students establish the magazine Isis (alumni include Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, and Sylvia Plath).
- John Waters in conversation with Alexander Chee: “I think I am weirdly politically correct.” | Literary Hub
- 10 more young American novelists who are the best. | Literary Hub
- Jill Lepore on Eleanor Roosevelt, who once asked, “Can a woman ever be president?” | Literary Hub
- Reclaiming the golem as a symbol of Jewish resistance in the age of Trump. | Literary Hub
- Emma Straub, ambassador of Independent Bookstore Day: “I could go to a dozen bookstores in a day.” | Literary Hub
- The story of a safe space: on 20 years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. | Literary Hub
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is going to be adapted into a multimedia performance that will be brought to the Apollo stage next April. | The New York Times
- An interview with “cheerleader for literature” Lisa Lucas, the executive director of the National Book Foundation. | CBS
- “Strange as this might sound, I don’t think I was really aware, during the process, that I was writing a story about depression.” An interview with Sara Baume. | Electric Literature
- Her life was made of multiple escapes: On Leonora Carrington’s story and pursuit of freedom. | New Statesman
- John F. Kennedy’s diary from his 1945 stint as a journalist will be put up for auction. | NPR
- “The historical context changes, our language changes, some of our understanding of the issues changes, but the issues themselves—issues of crime, issues of police brutality, issues of underenforcement—don’t.” An interview with James Forman, the author of Locking Up Our Own. | The Atlantic
- Johnny Depp has clarified how many millions of dollars he spent firing Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes from a cannon. | Vulture
Also on Lit Hub: How to drink like a writer, specifically, Lauren Groff and Viet Thanh Nguyen · Meryl Streep and other amazing people at the 2017 PEN Gala · Read from Doree Shafrir’s much anticipated new novel.
