TODAY: In 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet and Nobel Prize laureate, is born.
- FALL 2019 NONFICTION PREVIEW: All this week we’ll be highlighting our most anticipated books on a variety of subjects, from science and tech to history and biography, and more. First up: memoir and essay collections. | Lit Hub
- Meet your new favorite game: Can you guess these classic novels from their Library of Congress subject categories? | Lit Hub
- Walter Mosley talks to legendary filmmaker Walter Bernstein (who turns 100 today!). | Lit Hub
- Please teach more living poets: Nick Ripatrazone on the benefits of studying “breathing, human artists.” | Lit Hub
- Ok, but before you do that (☝🏽), read “Wedding Day,” a poem by Seamus Heaney from his collection 100 Poems. | Lit Hub
- “I want you to be roused by the sweep of my words and go away satisfied, but my life shouldn’t depend on it.” In which Nicola Waldron wonders if writing can be a kink. | Lit Hub
- On Indian epics in modern novels: Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in conversation. | Lit Hub
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Books author Leah Price recommends five great books about books. | Book Marks
- “This is aspirational minimalism, that elusive, functional-first aesthetic that so few of us can actually manage to cultivate.” Niina Pollari on the up-to-the-minute, anonymous style of William Gibson’s Cayce Pollard. | Garage
- “My ex-boyfriend dies, and we all gather to put our hands into his body.” Read a new short story by Sophie Mackintosh. | Granta
- Counterfeits, rewrites, typos, and fakes: a deep dive into the many illegitimate versions of George Orwell’s books being sold on Amazon. | The New York Times
- From his interview with Marilynne Robinson to his yearly book recommendations (not to mention giving Toni Morrison the Presidential Medal of Freedom), Barack Obama has played an important symbolic role in the current US literary landscape. | Inside Hook
- Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter launched a weekly email newsletter for “the world traveler,” Air Mail—but is the project just an out-of-date callback to elitist print culture? | The Nation
- “The central government has made a mockery of democracy”: more than 200 Indian writers, artists, and cultural activists have signed a statement of solidarity with the Kashmiri people. | Indian Cultural Forum
- Art Spiegelman says his introduction to Marvel: The Golden Age, 1939-1949 was rejected because he made a joke comparing “Captain America’s most nefarious villain” to Donald Trump. | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Simon Reid-Henry on Western democracy’s tenuous position • At the birth of surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913 • Read a story from Ayşe Papatya Bucak’s collection, The Trojan War Museum.
