TODAY: In 1910, Ursula Todd is born for the first (and second, and tenth) time, in Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
- A reading list for taking kink seriously, curated by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Literature Live Around the World director Teresa Grøtan talks world peace and literary logistics in bringing together 12 global book festivals for tomorrow’s live program. | Lit Hub
- “It turns out that pretending you understand what you don’t is exhausting and time-consuming.” Jen Silverman has some advice for writing across media. | Lit Hub Craft
- “This story about a monkey with superpowers has lasted for centuries because it captures something essential about our experience.” Gene Luen Yang on the adventures of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. | Lit Hub
- Robbie Arnott on how the Australian megafires—which killed or displaced around 3 billion animals—crept into his novel about a mythical heron. | Lit Hub
- “I had been missing art. I had been missing it very, very much.” Veronica Esposito on a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and what we’re missing during these interminable closures. | Lit Hub
- Ben McPherson on grief, violence, and the writer’s responsibility in the aftermath of tragedies. | CrimeReads
- Two internet novels, a biography of Stan Lee, and Chang-rae Lee’s latest come under the microscope in the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- “To call the Neapolitan Quartet ‘a rich portrait of a friendship’ seems insane, or like something a pod person would say.” Here is the Patricia Lockwood on Elena Ferrante you’ve been waiting for. | London Review of Books
- “Not many writers have more than one memoir in them, but Doyle has had more than one life.” Ariel Levy profiles the “radically honest” Glennon Doyle. | The New Yorker
- Sonia Faleiro on missing children, police indifference, and community mistrust in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. | CrimeReads
- The Justice Department dropped a lawsuit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who wrote a tell-all book about her (ex-)best friend Melania Trump. | HuffPost
- Sarah McEachern looks at the origins of anti-racism writing, “a radical genre often overlooked.” | Ploughshares
- “As a young person, I grew used to the books chosen in school where Blackness was present only if it was pointed out.” Maura Cheeks on representation in literature. | The Paris Review
- “The problem is that the words ‘nonnormative’ and ‘nontraditional’ are often used to describe kink. But what is normal?” R.O. Kwon and Alexander Chee in conversation about the anthology Kink. | Interview
- “I want people to understand that there are different kinds of traumas and that they often overlap and rear their heads when you least expect it.” Tessa Miller discusses misconceptions about chronic illness and why she wrote a memoir about living with Crohn’s disease. | Bitch Media
Also on Lit Hub: David O. Stewart on the early days of George Washington’s presidency • How America has always advertised the next golden age of computers • Read from Laird Hunt’s new novel, Zorrie
