TODAY: In 1916, American novelist Henry James dies.
- 50 one-star Amazon reviews of Gravity’s Rainbow (and the lone Thomas Pynchon defender policing the comments, who might be… Pynchon himself?). | Literary Hub
- Rachel Lyons wonders if any story is too personal for one’s art. | Literary Hub
- Legacies of the Soviet Empire: growing up with classic Russian literature in rural south India. | Literary Hub
- Will Iain M. Banks’s bonkers space opera novels fit on the small screen? | Literary Hub
- “Great reviewing strikes a series of balances.” An interview with Boston Globe critic Rebecca Steinitz. | Book Marks
- Hillary Clinton will deliver the closing lecture at this year’s PEN World Voices festival, which features more than 165 writers responding to the theme “Resist and Reimagine.” | The New York Times
- Claudia Rankine’s first play TheWhite Card—in which a black artist navigates an all-white dinner party—has premiered in Boston. | Boston Magazine
- “Her novels stick in the reader’s mind as flickering memories of places we may never have seen with our own eyes.” Jane Smiley on Willa Cather. | The Paris Review
- Jill Soloway is partnering with Amazon once more to launch Topple Books, a new imprint aimed towards publishing “undeniably compelling essential voices so often not heard.” | Hollywood Reporter
- “Something had emerged from the creek, loped across the road, and vanished.” Téa Obreht on not seeing a moose in the woods of Wyoming. | Granta
- Why Lee & Low Books cofounder Philip Lee, along with his wife, food anthropologist June Jo Lee, started Reader to Eaters, a publishing company and bookstore pop-up devoted to children’s food literacy. | NPR
- Lincoln Michel on Mary Robison’s Why Did I Ever, “the great lost American fragment novel.” | BOMB Magazine
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