TODAY: In 1948, playwright and author Denise Chávez is born.
- Lottery tickets, cigarettes, a VHS player, the book with the blue cover… Kristen Arnett offers an incomplete listof all things library patrons have asked her for. | Lit Hub
- Space Force! In which Nathan Englander volunteers to leadthe sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces. (We’re coming for you, Borowitz.) | Lit Hub
- New poetry by Indigenous women: work by Abigail Chabitnoy, Tria Blu Wakpa, Heather Cahoon, Sara Marie Ortiz. | Lit Hub
- Nobody grows up wanting to be a missile-maker: Karen Piper on how war put food on her family’s table. | Lit Hub
- “Everyone might be a critic, but not everyone’s, you know, a critic.” An interview with NBCC Emerging Critic Chelsea Leu. | Book Marks
- How Al Capone charmed journalists into a more sympathetic portrayal of the criminal world. | CrimeReads
- “There’s not a single bookshelf in my apartment. You heard me.” Sloane Crosley on her very personal—and semi-sacrilegious—system of literary organization. | New York Times
- “You should have the eyes of a crazy person. Stronger.” Meet the Italian stars of HBO’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. | Vogue
- Apparently not all pyramid schemes are bad, as this successful Instagram book exchange attests. | Slate
- “The lie of Little Women is a multifaceted one.” Why Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age classic is so often misunderstood. | The Atlantic
- Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, a fictional take on everyone’s favorite literary hoax starring Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. | The New York Times
- “From above, we saw only / a silver abyss, one mile long, / either side plunged / in darkness . . . ” 7 poets respond to the 71st anniversary of Partition. | Asian American Writers Workshop
- “What, you haven’t read Vonnegut?” How to talk about Kurt Vonnegut at parties. | McSweeney’s
