TODAY: In 1878, Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about the monotony of his life and his new job as an employee of France’s Ministry of Public Instruction.
- How Hunter S. Thompson would cover Donald Trump. | Literary Hub
- Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the same age as Mrs. Dalloway. | Literary Hub
- Sour Heart author Jenny Zhang on family, language, and collective memory. | Literary Hub
- I used to be a writer—then I got sick: on losing control of a body and an identity. | Literary Hub
- Watership Frown: Back in 1974, The New York Times wasn’t overly enthused about Richard Adams’ beloved rabbit adventure story. | Book Marks
- Legendary editor Judith Jones, who pulled The Diary of a Young Girl from the slush pile and published Julia Child, has died. | The Washington Post
- Revision helps me envision other possibilities for the language on the page: Eduardo C. Corral, Marie Howe, and 4 other contemporary poets share their hand-annotated drafts. | The New York Times
- “I wanted to do my bit to change things around, to win back some dignity for the dying, because I don’t think silence serves the interests of any of us.” An excerpt from Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor. | The New Yorker
- No matter how special you are, you’re still just walking dust: A conversation between David Burr Gerrard and Nicholas Mancusi. | BOMB Magazine
- “Martin has captured the longing I feel when I think of the blues of distances I cannot close, and in putting it somewhere where I can see it, has closed the distance.” Larissa Pham on Agnes Martin. | The Paris Review
- Being a woman takes up all your time: Flash fiction by Alexandra Kleeman. | BuzzFeed Reader
- “Halfway through writing this book, I had a moment of pure horror: I realized I was writing a novel from the point of view of an older, white, cisgendered male. . .” An interview with Lindsay Hunter, author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry. | Fanzine
And on Literary Hub: Lindy West on culture, technology, and Donald Trump • I can’t teach while wondering who has a gun: on the chilling effect of campus concealed carry laws • From Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter
