TODAY: In 1928, Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness is published by Jonathan Cape in London. (Later that year, it is declared obscene due to its theme of lesbian love).
- The Man Booker longlist has been announced, and includes books by George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, and Zadie Smith. | The Guardian
- Svetlana Alexievich on why she does what she does. | Literary Hub
- Catching up with Ocean Vuong in Milan: “Poetry is the only thing I’m good at. And that’s on a good day…” | Literary Hub
- How to deal with rejection: “I long to hold the poetry editor’s penis in my hand.” | Literary Hub
- Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on the occupation of Palestine. | Literary Hub
- The subterranean, the aquatic, the twilit characters of the metropolis: A 1992 review of Joseph Mitchell’s collected New Yorker pieces. | Book Marks
- On A Manual for Nothing, On a Clear Day, and other “recent books that reinvent, or fracture, the memoir’s form.” | The New Yorker
- “I want the material to be felt and mobilized, and not in a clinical premeditated way.” An interview with Harmony Holiday. | BOMB Magazine
- On the “relative invisibility of cultural and literary representations of queer rural life” and the writing (and relationship) of Sylvia Towsend Warner and Valentine Ackland. | Hazlitt
- “In a world where reality has become stranger than fiction, actual books are no longer selling.” On Trump’s impact on the publishing industry. | The New Republic
- “A century after Virginia scrambled down to the beach on the coast of Cornwall, I carried her book with me to Isle au Haut, one of nearly 5,000 islands in the Maine archipelago.” Reading To the Lighthouse on family vacation. | The Critical Flame
- A brief history of dystopian fiction, from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We to The Hunger Games. | Electric Literature
- I am here to tell you I have failed to perform gender once again: Two poems by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. | Hyperallergic
