TODAY: In 2013, Helen Thomas, a member in the White House press corps covering the administration of ten U.S. presidents and the first female member of the White House Correspondents’ Association, dies.
- Goodnight, moon landing: on the anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission’s success, a look back at two 1947 reviews of the classic children’s book Goodnight, Moon. | Book Marks
- The lies we tell ourselves about gentrification: Brandon Harris on a decade in Bed-Stuy. | Literary Hub
- Notes from James Salter: on editing a writer’s writer. | Literary Hub
- A first-hand account of severe, nonverbal autism. | Literary Hub
- James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley: a debate we shouldn’t need that’s more relevant than ever. | Literary Hub
- Remembering Clancy Sigal, the novelist-essayist-screenwriter-activist and one-time love of Doris Lessing. | Literary Hub
- Tony Kushner is writing a play about Donald Trump, set two years before the 2016 presidential election. | The Daily Beast
- “They ain’t all bedtime stories,” says Keanu Reeves of X Artists’ Books, the independent press he’s launching with artist Alexandre Grant and designer Jessica Fleischmann. | Los Angeles Times
- “He put his gun in the outgoing-mail tray and dumped a box of paper clips onto the desk.” Flash fiction by Amelia Gray. | The New Yorker
- When a bookseller’s moral and political unease about J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy comes into conflict with “that old chestnut about the customer always being right.” | The Millions
- “White ladies, cursed souls and headless apparitions all need somewhere fitting to haunt.” English Heritage has commissioned 8 writers to pen ghost stories set in Dover Castle and some of their other spookiest sites. | The Guardian
- Why should we care about what writers wore? Because “clothes come between the naked self and the world, as does writing.” | London Review of Books
- “Everything was black. Only the blood was another color . . . ” An excerpt from Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War. | VICE
