TODAY: In 1936, Italian writer Grazia Deledda, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, dies. She’s pictured here with her husband and son in Rome circa 1905.
- On the slyly subversive writing of E.M. Forster, who knew that happy endings don’t require weddings. | Lit Hub
- The trouble with designing a book when its author is in prison. | Lit Hub
- This could be the last, best place on the internet: visiting the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. | Lit Hub
- Is atheism the last unforgivable sin of American politics? (Because just about every other transgression seems perfectly fine.) | Lit Hub
- Kidnappings, cold cases, and comedy: 5 debut crime novels to read this August. | CrimeReads
- Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis says Crashed by Adam Tooze offers “insights into the nature of the wounded beast (financialized capitalism),” and 4 other book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- “For many of us, [poetry] is also a way of ‘being in the world,’ a world that in many ways was not made for us.” Jennifer Bartlett presents 10 new poems by writers with disabilities. | The New York Times
- “I want to tell you about the night I got hit by a train and died.” Read a new short story by Laura van den Berg. | Electric Literature
- Now you too can bake “Pie for a Doubting Husband” with the reissue of The Suffragette Cookbook, published in 1915 as a fundraiser by The Equal Franchise Federation Of Western Pennsylvania. | The Guardian
- “It’s a shock, whenever you leave the U.S., to realize how much other people understand that history matters.” Kaitlyn Greenidge on traveling to the Anguilla Literary Festival. | Medium
- A former Utah library director was sentenced to 30 days in jail for spending $89,000 in library funds purchasing items in the mobile phone game Game of War. | Variety
- “I’d allowed myself to subconsciously shame women for liking something I liked.” How one reader learned to let go of internalized sexism and embrace the romance novel. | The Mary Sue
- For planning purposes: here are all of the Ursula K. Le Guin film and television adaptations currently in the works. | io9
