TODAY: In 1928, Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy dies.
- Do audiobooks count as reading? Writer James Tate Hill fell in love with literature as a visually impaired teen, and wonders what it means to have never really “read” a book. | Literary Hub
- The most anticipated crime, mystery, and thriller titles of 2018 (so far). | Literary Hub
- Fiction/Non/Fiction, episode 8: On sensitivity readers and inclusion in publishing, with Dhonielle Clayton, Ayesha Pande, Whitney Terrell, and V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Literary Hub
- “The experience of making the spreadsheet has shown me that it is still explosive, radical, and productively dangerous for women to say what we mean.” The creator of the Shitty Media Men List has come forward. | The Cut
- Essential nature writing from 1850 to today: Helen MacDonald, Camille T. Dungy, and other women who write about the wild. | Outside
- “Your imagination compensated for failed reality. Your inadequacies reeked.” An excerpt from I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. | The New Yorker
- “The problem confronting America is not a dearth of facts; the problem, rather, is that most people want the benefits of a system whose logical extreme—Trump—they can’t tolerate.” On two new books by psychiatrists that question the mental fitness of Donald Trump (and the nation). | n+1
- The women behind Jack Jones Literary Arts on style, the power of beauty, and the books they love. | The Glow Up
- On a lost essay by Virginia Woolf that transports readers directly into interwar London. | Electric Literature
- “When writing or reading, of course, you enter that character’s head, you enter that virtual space, and it’s spellbinding.” An interview with writer and translator John Keene. | The Creative Independent
- “While common sense says that no artist can overhaul a country’s literature singlehandedly, Kadare has done so.” On Ismail Kadare and his newest novel, A Girl in Exile: Requiem for Linda B. | New Republic
- And a look at The Palace of Dreams, Kadare’s censored 1981 parable of the brutal Stalinist regime that ruled Albania in the decades following WWII. | Book Marks
