TODAY: In 1923, Bernice Rubens, the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize, is born.
- Dear grammar purists: your word snobbery is based on an intellectual Ponzi scheme. |Lit Hub
- From Aldous Huxley’s work on Pride and Prejudice to Dunne-Didion-Dunne, 13 literary writers who’ve adapted the books of others for the screen. |Lit Hub
- “I frequently find myself questioning the very base of what I do.” An English teacher comes to termswith the question: What is literature, anyway? |Lit Hub
- Melissa Stephenson on how she got through the hardest partsof writing a memoir, one small note card at a time. |Lit Hub
- For Fiction/Non/Fiction, Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin talk about the problemwith dead girl stories. With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. |Lit Hub
- From Laura Miller on the “eerie, somber power” of The Incendiaries to Erik Wimple on Sean Spicer’s “bumbling effort at gaslighting Americans,” 5 books reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- “I fell for the really bad thing, like people do. I found him attractive. But the more I read it, the less I like him, the more I see how violent and awful he is.” Lily Cole on the Wuthering Heights bicentenary and her new film about Heathcliff, which is called Balls. | The Guardian
- Dispatches from the 5th annual David Foster Wallace conference, which sounds a lot more interesting than “40 men in bandanas talking over each other.” | The Outline
- “Not only must we let [the toad work] squat on our lives; we must also loudly agree that the squatting is doing us good.” Joe Moran on three books about why work isn’t working anymore. | The Times Literary Supplement
- “I wound up with what I thought was just this massive failure of a project that was years in the making.” Nick Drnaso on Sabrina and his unlikely journey to becoming the first graphic novelist longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. | Vulture
- Victor LaValle, Carmen Maria Machado, Sofia Samatar, and more: the 2018 World Fantasy Award finalists have been announced. | Locus
- “Watching it is calming like reading experimental poetry is calming, once I just let go of trying to understand anything.” Paige Cooper on the poetics of football. | Popula
