TODAY: In 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mako Yoshikawa meditates on how making sushi can teach writers about taking feedback. | Lit Hub Craft
- “What looks like a game to outsiders can feel like a duel to its participants.” Considering the collaboration of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse. | Lit Hub Art
- “Yet if traversable wormholes are feasible, they could well link to other universes—that is, otherwise-disconnected parts of space—instead of our own universe.” On the symbiotic relationship between literature and physics. | Lit Hub Science
- Caitlin Cowan on the joys of working with young writers: “Working at a summer camp with young writers took me back to poetry’s roots and forced me to question the assumptions I held about the art form.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “The angel first materialized in my childhood house, which had closet doors that swung open and folded like wings.” Cynthia Marie Hoffman on poetry and OCD. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Black Peruvian saint yes I would go into his room but he wouldn’t believe me when I said I was Jesus. Like the feel of my belly band. They say I’m wrong in the head. All these things I can do.” Read from Gayl Jones’ new novel, White Rat. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The client’s reputation didn’t so much precede him as ride out like a pillaging army.” James Scudamore on being asked to ghostwrite Stephen James Joyce’s memoir. | Granta
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association announced that Susan Cooper is the recipient of the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. | Reactor
- On Annie Ernaux and Hilary Plum: “We write to fill the emptiness at the heart of all experience. But the experience of the attempt is a hole at the bottom of a bucket.” | Public Books
- Considering Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher and The New Lurid in television. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “Glück may not have assumed an air of majestic fatigue when I was her student in college three decades ago, but my classmates and I certainly all vied, often without success, to impress her with our ferocity.” Srikanth Reddy on Louise Glück. | The Paris Review
- “I now regret that so much of my reading took place during my late adolescence, long before I had any adult experience of the world.” A reflection from the late J.G. Ballard on his favorite books. | MIT Press Reader
- Bernardine Evaristo defends the Royal Society of Literature against “claims that older members are being sidelined, that the quality of its fellows has declined, and that it is curbing freedom of speech.” | The Guardian
