TODAY: In 1889, Victorian poet and playwright Robert Browning dies.
- Rebecca Solnit on women’s work and the myth of the art monster. | Literary Hub
- Why do we fear wolves? When animals are made to answer for the sins of men. | Literary Hub
- How many drafts does it take to write a novel? | Literary Hub
- Why the Bad Sex Writing award isn’t really funny or necessary. Really. | Literary Hub
- What happens when a math major becomes a book designer. | Literary Hub
- On Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Orphan Master’s Son, which “employs the techniques of magical realism to create a hallucinatory mirror of day-to-day circumstances that in themselves dwarf the imagination.” | Book Marks
- “I think there are ways in which nuance and strong tides can work together. I don’t think they always have to be jettisoned one for the other.” An interview with Maggie Nelson. | The Fader
- “Above all, I am grateful for her imagination: what she could see.” Naima Coster on having a black editor in a white publishing world. | Catapult
- “My sense is that writing is a great instrument of investigation. It helps more than anything to clarify things sometimes, if it’s properly used.” Sarah Gerard in conversation with Anne Garréta. | The Paris Review
- “I knew, intellectually, that my 19-year-old daughter was not a sociopath.” A new short story by Marcy Dermansky. | Joyland
- Conversation is all draft: Speaking with N.J. Enfield, author of How We Talk. | The Atlantic
- The definitive list of places Therese and Carol eat in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. | Autostraddle
- I was not born / an actress, but I will die one: A poem by Lara Mimosa Montes. | BOMB
