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- Rebecca Solnit: As Trump tweets, America burns. | Literary Hub
- When editorial power means blowing things up from the inside: 9 women editors on sexual discrimination in the literary world. | Literary Hub
- Will Self in praise of the difficult novel, and the uses of modernism. | Literary Hub
- On the age-old question: Should you write what you know, or not? From Toni Morrison to William T. Vollman, 31 writers weigh in. | Literary Hub
- “Everyone’s a critic (duh). This has always been the case, but now the notion of expert opinion is subsumed under the expertise of simply having an opinion.” Speaking with book critic Ellen Akins. | Book Marks
- A peek into the borrowing records at the private New York Society Library reveals the reading habits of writers like Roald Dahl, Herman Melville, and Malcolm Cowley. | Atlas Obscura
- Hilton Als on playwright Adrienne Kennedy, whose characters “don’t so much talk to one another . . . as hold up a mirror to the forces that are pulling their minds and bodies apart, leaving all that unique, pulsating language on the stage floor.” | The New Yorker
- “We often talk about the hangover feeling of having to leave the characters in a novel behind, but I think that can be true for the novel’s style of writing as well.” R.O. Kwon interviews Chloe Benjamin. | Zyzzyva
- Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage is Oprah’s newest Book Club pick; you can read an excerpt from it here. | Oprah, BuzzFeed Reader
- “At the core of these novels is an original unhappiness with the world, some deep sense of being at odds with it. What better way to overcome that gap than to be a wizard?” On Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. | New Republic
- “The world doesn’t need more art. If you want to be an artist and you want people to pay attention, you’d better be able to get their attention.” An interview with Rachel Lyon. | BOMB Magazine
- “Beneath the glitz and cop-taunting banter runs a more sober current: the stark choices that faced those burdened with unwanted pregnancies in the dark days before Roe vs. Wade.” On two new biographies of early 20th-century abortionist Inez Burns. | The Outline
And on Literary Hub: In praise of seabirds: wonder at the edge of the world • Wagner’s revolution: Simon Callow on the composer’s unlikely anti-capitalism • Read “Floor Plans,” from Danielle Lazarin’s Backtalk
