TODAY: In 1890, Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is first published in The San Francisco Examiner.
- Writers at the beach! Yes, you too can have the Harukami Murakami “just went out for a casual jog” look. | Lit Hub
- If Watergate happened today, it would probably stay secret: Sy Hersh reveals a 1970s Washington that seemed to contain… decency and honor? | Lit Hub
- How can fiction predict a future that’s already happening? Andromeda Romano-Lax on what it is to speculate. | Lit Hub
- Rachel Heng recommends 5 novelsby Singaporean writers you should read. | Lit Hub
- We need a mythic-scale storyto tell about climate change, before it’s too late. | Lit Hub
- From Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel of narcotic hibernation to Deborah Levy’s “working autobiography” The Cost of Living, the 10 best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Dead Girls author Alice Bolin on obsession, identity, and the new wave of feminist thrillers. | CrimeReads
- “Plath was writing from this secret, shared subterranean place—a place where girls and women let loose all their ‘unacceptable’ feelings.” Megan Abbott on Sylvia Plath and female rage. | The Millions
- In a new novel of political fanfiction, “Obama bursts into a motorcycle gang clubhouse in Delaware, casually toting a sawed-off shotgun, to rescue Joe Biden from a mob of angry, heavily armed bikers.” | The New York Times
- “She’s been rediscovered recently, sighted like a specter in the distance.” On forgotten master of the ghost story, Vernon Lee, who George Bernard Shaw argued was as great as Queen Elizabeth I. | JSTOR Daily
- Ted Cruz and Stephen King got into a colorful Twitter tussle after King endorsed Cruz’s Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke. | Salon
- “Shouts in the dark. Maybe that’s the best we can do to reach beyond ourselves.” Flash fiction by Peter Orner about a séance gone wrong. | New Yorker
- In honor of the 30th anniversary of Die Hard, a look at the 1979 novel that inspired it. | /Film
- “I’m aware on such a bodily level that people fought for this before I even existed and they didn’t do it so that I could just sit around with it.” Jordy Rosenberg on writing trans history and his novel Confessions of the Fox. | Barnes & Noble Review
