TODAY: In 1951, activist W.E.B. Du Bois and author Shirley Graham are wed in Queens, NY.
- From Ken Kesey to Ursula K. LeGuin, 20 literary adaptations disavowed by their original authors. | Literary Hub
- The Silicon Spies: on public money, private surveillance, and how the government invests data-gathering start-ups. | Literary Hub
- Joy Press on the rise of the female showrunner and Hollywood’s new Woolf Pack. | Literary Hub
- MIA, the liberal men we love: Amy Butcher looks into relationships gone sour in the Age of Trump. | Literary Hub
- Quiet lives of desperation aren’t always as desperate as they look: John Banville on the dreamlife of his parents. | Literary Hub
- Scandals and secret wars: 5 books making news this week. | Book Marks
- The cast of the newly revived The Boys in the Band reads a selection of queer poems—by Saeed Jones, Alex Dimitrov, Ocean Vuong, and others—as curated by Danez Smith, with an introduction by Alexander Chee. | T Magazine
- “We have to change and we have to use all our resources. We have to look at our life and decide if we will tolerate the horrific.” An interview with Toshi Reagon about her operatic adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. | Shondaland
- “Think of her as Manic Pixie Dream Archive Assistant.” On Alex Ross Perry’s new film Golden Exits, and why nobody knows how to portray librarians on-screen. | The Outline
- “I was supposed to be writing a different profile of my friend Michelle McNamara, an introduction to a brilliant new true-crime writer who, at 46. . . published our generation’s In Cold Blood.” Kera Bolonik remembers Michelle McNamara. | Vulture
- “In this vision, basic income is a way to clean up the problem of inequality without addressing the root causes.” Clio Chang on Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes’ new book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn. | Splinter
- “Police accountability, and restraint, will come only from citizens actively watching the police to make sure they don’t harass, brutalize, or unjustly arrest otherwise vulnerable people.” Daniel Oppenheimer on cop-watchers. | Guernica
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KillmongerGuy Montag burn some books in HBO’s trailer for Fahrenheit 451. | YouTube
Also on Literary Hub: Kevin Toolis on how the Irish taught us to die · Poetry by Bianca Stone from The Mobius Strip Club of Grief · Read from Peter Carey’s new novel, A Long Way From Home.
