TODAY: In 1925, Sol Yurick, author of the 1965 novel “The Warriors,” which was made into a movie in 1979, is born.
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- “He was fascinated with the psychology that produced a murderer, or a victim—the why more than the how.” Neil Nyren guides us through the life and work of eccentric crime writer Nicholas Blake. | CrimeReads
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- Hungarian-born author Zsuzsanna Gahse has won the Swiss Grand Prix for Literature. | Swiss Info
- “The fringe of psychotherapy”: When existential philosophy meets the therapist’s couch. | The Atlantic
- “In a way, corporations wield the censorship that dares not say its name.” On the (largely invisible) threat to publishing that is corporate censorship. | Electric Lit
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