TODAY: In 1856, the serialization of Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary in Revue de Paris ends.
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- On the editor who pulled Joseph Conrad from the slush pile. | Literary Hub
- 10 small press books you should read, according to East Bay Booksellers. | Literary Hub
- Fiction/Non/Fiction, episode 6: Has Donald Trump’s band of rampalian knaves achieved Shakespeare-level in their dark machinations? | Literary Hub
- As this annus horribilis draws to a close, a look at 15 of the most savage burns penned by book critics this year. | Book Marks
- Barracoon, a previously unpublished book by Zora Neale Hurston, will be released in 2018. | Essence
- “She’s reclining on her bed. She wears no (let’s be real—minimal) makeup. You’re welcomed into her room to read with her. She knows that we want in.” On the faux intimacy of celebrity book clubs. | Paper Darts
- “Where does nonfiction truly end and fiction begin, and what do we do with texts where we do not know the answer?” Gabrielle Bellot on Clarice Lispector’s crônicas. | The Paris Review
- “Reading this way made us feel cool. It also made us feel a bit fake.” Joanna Walsh on searching for reality in fiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “I am very much concerned that black kids see themselves as part of a global black experience.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Maria Tatar discuss their Annotated African American Folktales. | The New York Times
- From a disastrous dinner party to a closer look at the culinary traditions of Appalachia, the best food writing of the year. | Longreads
- The best sentences of 2017 apparently include the work of dril and many sentences that are actually multiple sentences. | Slate
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