TODAY: In 1936, novelist, poet, and Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (AKA A.S. Byatt) is born.
- The editor of James Baldwin’s “children’s book for adults” on bringing it back to the public eye. | Lit Hub
- Adrienne Rich on being a daughter, being a mother, and being a feminist. | Lit Hub
- Laura van den Berg reveals the horror films that served as inspiration for her new novel. | Lit Hub
- Cookbooks often reflect the politics of their times—and occasionally even shape them. | Lit Hub
- On the self-portrait Jorge Luis Borges made in New York’s Strand bookstore. | Lit Hub
- How Ross Macdonald changed the course of crime fiction with three classic novels. | CrimeReads
- From Ling Ma’s office apocalypse Severance to a memoir by acclaimed biographer and literary editor Claire Tomalin, the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Dustin Illingworth on the journals of John Cheever, which “manage to instill genteel ennui with the anguished moral passion of a Russian novel.” | The Paris Review
- “Steve Jobs rejected his daughter for years, but that daughter has absolved him.” Read a profile of Lisa Brennan-Jobs in advance of the publication of her memoir, Small Fry. | The New York Times
- Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy is officially coming to a small screen near you (i.e. your computer). | Deadline
- “The sixth and final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle loops back and begins eating itself.” Considering Rachel Cusk and Knausgaard on the other side of their acclaimed autofiction series. | New Statesman
- From a peek into the interiors at Buckingham Palace to inventive desert homes around the world, 8 interior design books sure to stoke your inspiration (or envy) this fall. | Vogue
- Richard Brody calls a new documentary about Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis “a revelation and exaltation of the artistic essence, of the very nature of an artist’s life as an unending act of creation in itself.” | The New Yorker
- In a sentence that makes us feel both very young and old at once, Weird Twitter phenom @dril is self-publishing a collection of his best tweets to commemorate his 10 year anniversary on the platform (really). | VICE
