TODAY: In 1998, novelist and short story writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Dorothy West, dies.
- Amazingly, the one-star Amazon reviews of Lolita include some “thoughtful, productive, and intellectually complex” arguments! | Lit Hub
- Hannah Steinkopf-Frank talks to her mom, Deborah, and Rebecca Makkai about HIV/AIDS activism in 1980s Chicago. | Lit Hub
- Feuds, flings, and high school sports after Title IX: Sports writer Melissa Isaacson on her time at Niles West High. | Lit Hub
- “The average man is the impossible man”: A brief history of the pseudoscience behind the myth of the “average.” | Lit Hub
- Téa Obreht’s revisionist western, Olga Tokarczuk’s murderous fairy tale, and Sarah M. Broom’s New Orleans memoir all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “History abounds with tales of obsessive bibliophilic greed, betrayal, theft, blackmail, fraud, assault, and murder.” Marlowe Benn is here with 7 mysteries by, about, and for bibliophiles. | CrimeReads
- The recently announced TV adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast will follow the author as a young writer in 1920s Paris, before the height of his fame. | The Hollywood Reporter
- “As the world looks on, the architecture of Indian fascism is quickly being put into place.” Arundhati Roy on the communications blackout in Kashmir. | The New York Times
- “Scottish Twitter” is a thing, and in many ways has revitalized the Scots language itself. | Quartz
- “You’d think she would speak in a French accent, which she sometimes does, but more often it’s in the voice of a British orphan.” Patricia Lockwood is here to discuss her cat, and we are all here to listen. | The Cut
- Inside the (heavily remodeled) London flat where Jane Austen once lived. | MyLondon
- “I made myself small and I kept quiet and watched and learned: the classic response of the new immigrant.” Sarah Moss on writing (and not writing) in Reykjavik. | The Guardian
- There’s still a “seriousness gap” between how we talk about men and women writers. Case in point: a reviewer recently described Sally Rooney as “a startled deer with sensuous lips.” | The Atlantic
Also on Lit Hub: Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’ High Weirdness • On the love hotels and pleasure quarters of Tokyo • Read an excerpt of Katerina Pavlova’s A Double Life.
