TODAY: In 1975, P.G. Wodehouse dies.
- Happy Valentine’s Day! (really): 30 of the worst literary couples in history · How to write the perfect kiss into your novel · Kafka was a really bad boyfriend, and we have the receipts · Is love just an invention of Medieval storytellers? · Once upon a time I was falling in love . . . On the literature of romantic abandonment. | Literary Hub
- “As with any profession, the job requires training, humility, and lots of practice.” Speaking with writer and critic Alexis Burling. | Book Marks
- Not since the 19th century have so many individuals had so much power over the press: On the return of the “press baron model” and the dangerous influence billionaires wield in our current media landscape. | Columbia Journalism Review
- “I could hear critics’ voices in my head. What would my agent say, what would my editor say, what would everyone I’ve ever met say? I knew it would be out in the world, and I knew what that meant.” Nicole Chung interviews Kim Fu. | Shondaland
- “What did it mean for a man who had succeeded in American society to be capable of committing—or even imagining—such violence?” Sarah Marshall on the meaning of Ted Bundy. | The Believer
- Can she make a scene? And where? Short fiction by Amber Sparks. | matchbook
- “Every time someone said, ‘Cut,’ we were crying with laughter.” An excerpt from Jonathan Abrams’s oral history of The Wire reveals the story behind a famously foul-mouthed scene. | Vulture
- How Audre Lorde’s language of self-care was interpreted and represented at transmediale, a Berlin-based art and technology festival. | Frieze
- “Name: Jay Gatsby. Age: How old do you want me to be lol” If the “complicated” men of literature had Tinder. | McSweeney’s
