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- Announcing the finalists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. | Lit Hub
- Much like the real Oscars, our Fake Book Oscars have no host and will probably anger some people. | Lit Hub
- “Weber saw no reason why film should aim to merely amuse when it was possible to change the world.” On Lois Weber, the woman who was once the highest-paid director in Hollywood. | Lit Hub
- The crucial role of the sidekick in Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Ben Rybeck on the adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir (and the indispensability of Richard E. Grant). | Lit Hub
- “We say a work of art has ‘moved’ us, but failure also moves us.” On David Foster Wallace’s obsession with failure. | Lit Hub
- How to free yourself from the “walking essay”: Lucy Schiller on writing from stillness. | Lit Hub
- Neil Nyren guides us through the many racetrack mysteries of jockey-turned-crime-writer Dick Francis, “a master of the first line, the first paragraph, the first page.” | CrimeReads
- Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive: Oxygen-starved OR driven by fierce intelligence? | Book Marks
- Don Winslow’s drug-war trilogy, David Wallace Wells’ climate change prophecy, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- A visual history of the American public library. | CityLab
- Short stories are getting more lucrative! The titular story from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black has been optioned by Universal. | Deadline
- The Library of America received the 2019 Innovator’s Award for “showcasing literature in all its forms from classics to lesser-known texts.” | Library of America
- Naomi Novik, Sam J. Miller, R.F. Kuang and more: the 2018 Nebula award finalists have been announced. | Nebula Awards
- “I write to fight all this violence that surrounds our bodies and that we end up not seeing”: Édouard Louis on Emmanuel Macron, the gilets jaunes, and political violence in France. | New Statesman
- “I learned very early that to be an immigrant in this country meant I didn’t have the luxury of choosing what I wanted.” Read an essay by Nicole Dennis-Benn from the anthology The Good Immigrant. | BuzzFeed
Also on Lit Hub: Charlie Jane Anders on the perils of world-building on So Many Damn Books • Brit Bennett and Emily Halpern talk writing for the screen on Fiction/Non/Fiction • Simpler times: Janet Malcolm at the Rally to Restore Sanity • “After Carrie Kinsey’s Letter to Theodore Roosevelt,” a poem by Shane McCrae • Read a story from Maryse Meijer’s collection Rag
