TODAY: In 1918, writer Doris Grumbach is born. Happy 100th birthday!
- On Fiction/Non/Fiction Pamela Paul and Mira Jacob talk literary reboots, American superheroes, journaling, and more. With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Lit Hub
- “The English Patient remains cloudy with errors and pacing.” Michael Ondaatje’s Golden Man Booker acceptance speech is pretty great. | Lit Hub
- R U ready 2 laugh? From Jane Austen to Helen Oyeyemi, 20 very funny novels by women. | Lit Hub
- Does the second season of The Handmaid’s Talewant us to empathize with Ivanka Trump? | Lit Hub
- Aisha Tyler recounts one of the worst night’s of her stand-up comedy life… at a Christian college. | Lit Hub
- Ramona Ausubel explains why A.M. Homes’ new collection feels like golden hour, and 4 other book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- Time to kick back, relax, and . . . listen to this summer’s essential true crime podcasts, rounded up by Emily Rose Stein. | CrimeReads
- “Here was a writer who knew she would die and knew that her readers would, too.” Jacob Rubin on giving up literature after a tragedy—and how Mary Gaitskill restored the faith. | Slate
- The number of Americans reading poetry this year increased for the first time since at least 2002—largely thanks to young readers and writers. | PBS
- “You want to be doing something in your life that wakes you up.” Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney profiles Saoirse Ronan. | Vogue
- How Wattpad, a self-publishing platform and “internet safe space” for young writers of fanfiction and original stories, became a pipeline to Hollywood. | Vulture
- From smut bin to 60th anniversary edition: B.J. Novak on the unlikely backstory of his favorite book, Candy. | The Paris Review
- “Magic Mike XXL is the greatest journey story of our time.” Why everyone’s favorite male stripper movie is just like The Odyssey . . . with butts. | Electric Literature
- The trailer for Colette, starring Keira Knightley as the trailblazing French author, has arrived. | Deadline
