TODAY: In 1907, poet Giosuè Carducci, the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies.
- 25 legendary writer feuds, ranked (featuring a whole lot of Hemingway). | Literary Hub
- The importance of teaching poetry in prison. | Literary Hub
- Joyce Carol Oates on dystopia, boxing, and reading problematic classics. | Literary Hub
- Rhiannon Navin: How my mother taught me to be a book fanatic (and how I’m going to pass it on to my kids). | Literary Hub
- A Trump-era satire, a harrowing chronicle of sex addiction, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “The breakup as social experience isn’t kiss-and-tell so much as a desire not to be alone in facing a story that’s now ended.” Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships. | VQR
- Caitlin Macy on an underrated genre of her childhood: before there was YA, there were horse books | Literary Hub
- Maris Kreizman asked some of our greatest living crime novelists—from Megan Abbott to Attica Locke— to share the novels that thrill them the most. | GQ
- “His manuscript, carefully handwritten in ballpoint pen, arrived in my mailbox 20 years into his sentence, in November of 2015.” Zachary Lazar on art through bars. | Tin House
- Adrienne Miller on what it was like to be the (young, female) literary editor of Esquire in the ‘90s. | Vogue
- From zodiac-themed bars to Philip Pullman, what the Lit Hub staff is up to this weekend. | Literary Hub
- “I felt lucky to have escaped the influence of Big Pharma. . . The only problem was that I was sick and getting sicker.” Rebekah Frumkin on living with bipolar disorder. | Granta
- “We’re getting people who drive down from Memphis who want to see it, people from Oxford. . . they’re all interested.” A queer/feminist bookstore has opened in Water Valley, Mississippi. | Publishers Weekly
- Scott Rudin will transform To Kill a Mockingbird into The Newsroom for Broadway. | Deadline
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