TODAY: In 1929, Brian Friel, Irish dramatist, short story writer, and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company, is born.
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- Meet the genius poet-child of Brooklyn: on the prodigious talents of Nathalia Crane. | Literary Hub
- From lists to libraries, there’s got to be a better way to categorize the books we love. | Literary Hub
- New Jersey has reversed its prison ban on Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow—a book about mass incarceration and the War on Drugs—after the ACLU sent a letter to the state’s corrections commissioner calling the ban unconstitutional. | The New York Times
- “‘It’s like we were in it together,’ they said. What we were ‘in’ was a moment of communal power, a space devoted to the possibility of change.” On Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower performed as opera in Abu Dhabi. | The Paris Review
- Denis Johnson, Zadie Smith, Rachel Kushner, and more: The Millions’ Great First-Half 2018 Book Preview has arrived. | The Millions
- “This isn’t what’s normally meant by translation.” On Han Kang, Deborah Smith, and a collaborative translation approach. | The New Yorker
- Milo Yiannopoulos, another very stable genius, will represent himself in his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster after the withdrawal of his lawyer due to “irreconcilable differences.” | AV Club
- “Horror comforted me when I was young by showing me I was right to be afraid.” Colin Winette and R.O. Kwon in conversation. | BOMB
- The Swedish Academy waits 50 years after each Nobel ceremony to reveal the list of nominees. Meet the five women (out of 70) nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature. | Book Riot
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