TODAY: In 2009, Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning novel Wolf Hall is published.
- Unconscious bias is running for president: Rebecca Solnit on Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the problem with “likeability.” | Lit Hub
- Some personal news: we redesigned Lit Hub, added a podcast network, and launched a blog (which, we regret to inform you, is not called Hott Goss with the Litt Hubb Gangg). | Lit Hub
- Our favorite book covers of April, including fairy tale majesty, spiky swarms, and all the trompe l’oeil you can handle. | Lit Hub
- “In novels, it was always easy to wander, even to get lost, without tiring.” Ayesegül Savas on the struggle to become a true Parisian flaneur. | Lit Hub
- On the great Clarice Lispector: Benjamin Moser in praise of an enigmatic genius. | Lit Hub
- Jane Alison on Raymond Carver, Gabrielle Bellot on James Baldwin, Viet Thanh Nguyen on not boring an audience, and more of the staff’s favorite stories from April. | Lit Hub
- The “decisive uprising” of gay liberation: Edmund White on Stonewall. | Lit Hub
- “Even now, when I meet someone who went to boarding school, I instantly feel like a rube.” The literary pitfalls of writing about the young and rich. | Lit Hub
- Lori Feathers on the oeuvre of Ali Smith: from Hotel World to the Seasonal Quartet. | Book Marks
- Anna Burns, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and Tayari Jones are among the finalists for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. | Book Marks
- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi has won the the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Call Me Zebra. | Book Marks
- Mary Lawrence on the ultra-violent Tudor Dynasty, and how historical crime fiction can bring to life the bizarre and passionate world of Henry VIII. | CrimeReads
- Stanford University, which has the fourth largest endowment in American higher education, is facing intense criticism for cutting its publishing house’s funding. | Inside Higher Ed
- “We were poor, but the beach was ours.” Kaitlyn Greenidge on why America needs public beaches. | Sierra
- Great Australian poet and literary critic Les Murray has died at 80. | The Guardian
“For publishers in 2019, Donald Trump is where the money is.” On publishing’s Trump problem. | The New Republic - White nationalists interrupted a reading of Jonathan M. Metzl’s Dying of Whiteness at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC. “They’re illustrating my point,” Metzl said. | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: On So Many Damn Books, Myla Goldberg talks describing photos without being boring • Sex and Sexability: on writing desire in the Regency years • Why was Shakespeare wary of writing about religion? • Read from Abbigail N. Rosewood’s debut novel, If I Had Two Lives
