TODAY: In 1917, Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter, and novelist, is born.
- Dictators are afraid of poets: Ursula K. Le Guin on nature writing, technology, and poetic form. | Lit Hub
- How to spend a literary long weekendin Richmond, Virginia. | Lit Hub
- Will Schwalbe talks to Josh Gondelman: “I kind of got bullied into my career.” | Lit Hub
- Stacy Schiff on the origins of The Little Prince(another reason why being sad in New York isn’t entirely a bad thing). | Lit Hub
- Our favorite children’s books: the Lit Hub staff looks back to childhood favorites. | Lit Hub
- “I think women marching scares some people because it’s still seen as an overturning of the natural order.” Eva Dolan on activist women, gentrification, and crime fiction as a Trojan horse. | Crime Reads
- “The best kind of social novel,” an “unforgettable family saga,” and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Emily Nemens has been appointed as the new editor of The Paris Review, the seventh in its 65-year history. | The Paris Review
- “Stoical and highly functional, she remains a cipher to the last.” Claire Messud on Laura Ingalls Wilder. | New York Review of Books
- “To write about reading is a preoccupation that runs through the history of literature.” Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on Motion Sickness and other books about books. | The Believer
- A trailer for the original book about books, Don Quixote, as envisioned by Terry Gilliam and starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver. | AV Club
- One of the teenagers sentenced to read books from a designated list after vandalizing a historic black schoolhouse last year reflects on what he’s learned, while the chosen authors explain what impact they hope their work has had. | The New York Times
- On the secret codes hidden in the “wee old women” books of a small Scottish library. | Atlas Obscura
- “Can we ever overcome hierarchy? Can we use our intelligence in constructive ways?” Two scholars on the brilliance of Octavia Butler (and what to read next). | TIME
