TODAY: In 1898, writer Malcolm Cowley is born.
- Claire Messud: What I learned from my mother’s library. | Literary Hub
- Meet the best high school lit mag in America. | Literary Hub
- How we imagine (and reimagine) the life of Nat Turner, American revolutionary. | Literary Hub
- “Readers who don’t have copperlined stomachs will have trouble getting through it even once.” A 1964 review of Hubert Selby Jr.’s cult classic novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn. | Book Marks
- Hillary Clinton has released an audio excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, in which she has written “about moments from the campaign that [she wishes she] could go back and do over.” | MSNBC
- “I sat down to start writing my next book—and it was going to be this, or it was going to be about witches.” Lindsay Hunter and Roxane Gay in conversation. | Work in Progress
- On Mark Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, “the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from anti-Fascist organizers past and present.” | The New Yorker
- Netflix has announced that it will release two new literary documentaries—Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Gay Talese’s Voyeur. | Deadline
- “The luge is such a good metaphor for how life actually feels. It seems like there’s no strategy to it.” An interview with Anelise Chen, author of So Many Olympic Exertions. | Electric Literature
- From I, Claudius to On Tyranny, the 10 best books about tyrants. | The Guardian
- (shock: your encounter with another’s oneness): Three poems by Zachary Pace. | The Boston Review
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