TODAY: In 1896, Scottish crime novelist Josephine Tey is born.
- Terrance Hayes remembers the poet Lucie Brock-Broido and her immortal Maine Coon cat, Sweet William. | Lit Hub Cats
- Jonathan Galassi remembers his friend, the late, great Robert Gottlieb, “the last and arguably the most successful of the editor-publishers.” | Lit Hub
- Wendy Chin-Tanner on the dual gaze required to write a novel inspired by her father’s time at Carville, a Leprosy treatment center. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?” Wang Xiaobo on the limitless mind of Italo Calvino. |Lit Hub Criticism
- H.P. Lovecraft “loved this dish for its heartiness as much as for its frugality.” A recipe for a culinary favorite of the creator of Cthulhu. | Lit Hub Food
- “ I do think I have a cultural history to draw from that is incredibly rich and diverse, particularly as a Haitian American, which certainly informs and influences everything I write. I wouldn’t have it any other way.” Roxane Gay at how she arrived at herself. | Lit Hub Radio
- A transformative moment in the history of fishing: Karen Pinchin on the men who caught the largest tuna ever recorded. | Lit Hub Fishing
- “In The Brothers Karamazov, narrative unfurls at the mad and authentic pace of human emotion.” Read a (new) review of Dostoevsky’s classic. | The New York Times
- Remembering Japanese novelist Seiichi Morimura, author of Proof of the Man and The Devil’s Gluttony. | Japan Times
- “To read the books that follow Chronicles is to see a poet try, again and again, to find new ways of speaking that reflect a broken world in constant flux.” Sarah Thankam Mathews on Dionne Brand’s Nomenclature. | Lux Magazine
- Ducks author Kate Beaton and DC Comics were the big winners of this year’s Eisner Awards, held on Friday at San Diego Comic-Con. | Comics Beat
- Leopold Froelich explores the feud between the identical twins behind Ann Landers and Dear Abby, respectively, who popularized the American advice column. | Lapham’s Quarterly
Also on Lit Hub: Two poems by Joyce Mansour, translated from the French by Emilie Moorhouse · Check out 21 books hitting the shelves this week · Read from Geoff Rickly’s debut Someone Who Isn’t Me.
