TODAY: In 2009, Frank McCourt dies.
- Anna DeForest on writing without artifice: “Writing, how I do it, is not inventive or imaginary, it is merely a means of paying attention.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “Bless you, / stomach pump.” Read “Dear Unfeeling Martinis,” a poem by JoAnna Novak from the collection Domestirexia. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Natalie Lampert on the failures of American sex education and advancing the conversation about women’s bodily autonomy beyond abortion. | Lit Hub Health
- “Corporate political power was created not by the Constitution but by the Supreme Court.” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Jennifer Mueller on the threat of mixing corporate money with the highest court in the land. | Lit Hub Politics
- Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare, and Rachel Kousser’s Alexander at the End of the World all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- How does a community continue in the face of tragedy? George Choundas on the aftermath of a murder-suicide in an idyllic small town. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Sometimes between midnight and daybreak, the old man began to dream, and the dream was so vivid that every smell and sound and detail was so real that his life became a blurred, half-forgotten dream.” Read “The Dream” from William Gay’s collection, Stories from the Attic. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain discusses Miyah poetry: “It’s difficult to define now because the context in which Miyah poetry originated is gone.” | Words Without Borders
- On the curiosities of John Boorman’s 1974 film Zardoz and its novelization. | 3:AM
- “The will is the only intervention we have against the conditioning of worldly existence.” Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt and the myth of authenticity. | Aeon
- “To call it a weird book doesn’t begin to capture its genre-defying, protean strangeness.” Alexandra Alter talks to Keanu Reeves about his new (weird) new novel, cowritten with China Miéville. | The New York Times
- Christian Lorentzen considers the literary establishment. | Granta
- On the relationship between Penguin Classics and Marvel Comics. | Full Stop
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