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- You’re welcome, Hollywood: free and entirely correct casting expertise for yet-to-be-adapted literary classics. | Lit Hub
- On Fiction/Non/Fiction, R.O. Kwon and Paul Harding talk God and faith in American fiction; with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Lit Hub
- “Even at 20 years old, she trusted her readers not to be pandered to, to be comfortable with the unknown.” Lessons from Sylvia Plath’s newly-discovered short story. | Lit Hub
- “Lawrence has always been on the side of the underdog.” Friends and coworkers reflect on the legacy of poet-publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in advance of his 100th birthday. | Lit Hub
- A brief literary history of Davos, where tuberculosis and writer’s block were cured, if not global catastrophe. | Lit Hub
- When a very small press wins a Pulitzer: Paul Harding looks back on Tinkers, ten years on. | Lit Hub
- Leila Slimani’s Adèle: fierce, uncanny thunderbolt OR oxymoronically sex-filled dud? | Book Marks
- Samanta Schweblin’s uncanny fictions, Valeria Luiselli’s political empathy, Jill Abramson versus the youth, and more Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- 30 years of Harry Bosch: Bruce Riordan on Michael Connelly, his evolving series character, and the ever-changing city of Los Angeles. | CrimeReads
- “Look, I know! I know how it sounds. And yet, against all odds, the books were great.“ On the improbable brilliance of the Animorphs series. | The Paris Review
- We may know them in real life—but where are the fictional women who manage to be both artists and mothers? | Electric Literature
- 6 books to read by Russell Baker, the late Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist and humorist. | The New York Times
- A newly-discovered note may finally prove that the much-disputed portrait of young Jane Austen is, in fact, the novelist herself. | The Guardian
- “A spider once lived on earth”: On tropes, tricks and themes in traditional African tales. | The Mantle
- “It is hard, in encountering the fiction of MacKenzie Bezos, to untangle the work of a reader from the scrutiny of the voyeur.” On MacKenzie Bezos’ novels. | The New Yorker
- “When my work does something strange that I can’t quite intellectually justify, I try to trust it anyhow.” Read an interview with Elizabeth McCracken. | The Rumpus
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