TODAY: In 1914, Winifred Foley, who wrote a best-selling memoir of her girlhood in rural Gloucestershire when she was 60 and then spent her retirement as a romantic novelist, is born.
- Is autofiction a dirty word? Edy Poppy talks to Siri Hustvedt about love, sex, and boredom. |Lit Hub
- Emily Temple gives a close reading of the most perfect story in existence(according to her). |Lit Hub
- What language do I think in? Do I write in? Arundhati Roy on the politics of language and translation in India. |Lit Hub
- As the world burns, what future is therefor America’s desert cities? (The high in Phoenix today will be 114 degrees.) |Lit Hub
- Michael Scott Moore on the time he was held prisonerby Somali pirates and taught them yoga. |Lit Hub
- How Borges and Bioy Casares brought the modern detective novel to Argentina and sparked a new literary movement. | CrimeReads
- “I’d love to have been around when certain texts that I tend to make pompous declarations about were first written. Like, The Canterbury Tales.” An interview with New Republic critic Josephine Livingstone. | Book Marks
- Jane Austen loathed the Prince Regent (and future King George IV), but the Windsor Castle royal archives have revealed that he was one of her first buyers, picking up a copy of Sense and Sensibility in 1811. | The New York Times
- “Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important. To have a crease was natural. To have a crease was to look real.” Crystal Hana Kim on makeup and monolids. | NYLON
- Ghosts. Death. Accidents. Violence. Sick parents. Marriage. Florida. Tourism. Planes. Hotels. Cameras. Horror films. Misogyny. Secrets: All this and more in an interview with Laura van den Berg. | The Paris Review
- “In pretty much any fiction I write, I do a lot of reading out loud to help me determine whether the sound is working.” R.O. Kwon on the musicality of language and taking inspiration from Edith Wharton. | The Atlantic
- Is Nico Walker’s Cherry “the first great novel of the opioid epidemic”? | Vulture
- “His uncommon grace as a critic came from a compulsion to look for beauty and truth in the overlooked and the marginalized.” Helen Rosner on the food critic Jonathan Gold, who died on Saturday at 57. | The New Yorker
- The archivist and antique bookseller who allegedly conspired to steal $8 million worth of rare books from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library have been arrested for a scheme dating back to the late 1990s. | Motherboard
