TODAY: In 2016, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies.
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- It’s been 14 years since a woman won Italy’s premiere literary prize. . . So is this the year a woman claims the Strega? | Lit Hub
- Trespassing at Ernest Hemingway’s last home in Ketchum, Idaho. | Lit Hub
- From Megan Abbott to Lori Roy, the 11 best new mysteries coming out this July. | CrimeReads
- On the anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s death, a look back at the first reviews of every book published by the beloved (and divisive) author. | Book Marks
- “I’m not ashamed/Love is large and monstrous”: Four poems by Maggie Nelson. | BOMB Magazine
- “Newfound interest in Native writers—who speak with the authority of a people who lived through genocide and survived to talk about it—makes sense.” On Tommy Orange and the new “Native Renaissance.” | The Paris Review
- In a bid to create the most-anticipated literary adaptation of all time, Greta Gerwig is in talks to direct a version of Little Women starring Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Florence Pugh, and Timothée Chalamet. | Vulture
- Crystal Hana Kim, Lydia Kiesling, and more: Debuts to look forward to this fall. | Publishers Weekly
- I approach most horror stories with the horror of choice in mind: Brian Evenson and Paul Tremblay in conversation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Marlon James, and more on what it’s like to win the Man Booker prize (good, we would imagine). | The Guardian
- Is it shelter or is it nightmare? Gaiutra Bahadur on immigration, memory, and mapping. | xpmethod
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