TODAY: In 1938, Judy Blume is born.
- Rebecca Solnit on the #MeToo backlash and the perpetual epidemic of violence against women. | Literary Hub
- “Observe. Make notes. Listen carefully. Listen to how people talk to one another.” Today, on her birthday, some writing advice from the great Judy Blume. | Literary Hub
- Why I’ll never stop reading “junk” fiction: Ben Dolnick on being shamed for his love of genre. | Literary Hub
- “Having a writer in the family is a curse—for the family.” An interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard. | The Guardian
- “I wanted to understand how a fictional village in South America, imagined by a Colombian writer living in Mexico City, could so strongly recall my home in the American South.” On Gabriel García Márquez’s bus trip through the South. | The Paris Review
- I don’t want to be silent anymore: Jasmin Darznik on the ways in which women are made to disappear, and finding strength in words. | Shondaland
- “Better to be safe than sorry. Why had I ignored such warnings?” A new short story by Joyce Carol Oates. | ACLU
- On Surrealist Max Ernst’s collage novels, “black bibles of blasphemy and depravity.” | Hyperallergic
- Happy Monday! Here is a list of the worst workplaces in contemporary literature. | Electric Literature
- “The writing of good sex? Blech. I get out of those situations very quickly. It’s a death trap.” Lily King and Jamie Quatro in conversation. | Barnes & Noble Reads
- In honor of Judy Blume’s 80th birthday, a look back at three of her most iconic books. | Book Marks
Also on Literary Hub: Unpacking the metaphor of the horse in 19th-century literature · Patrick Nathan on the morbidity of language · Read “The Fallguy’s Faith” by Robert Coover
