TODAY: In 1818, Emily Brontë, probably seen here in a portrait made by her brother Branwell around 1833, is born. (It’s possible this is a portrait of Anne).
- From Olympian to model and now, to memoirist, the truly unique Casey Legler talks to Hanya Yanagihara about how she got from there to here. | Lit Hub
- Everybody’s favorite literary one-hit wonder? A compendium of strong opinions about Wuthering Heights, from famous writers to first reviews. | Lit Hub, Book Marks
- Maeve Higgins is prepared to make you laugh about how bad the immigration conversation has gotten. | Lit Hub
- Was poet Forugh Farrokhzad Iran’s “most notorious woman”? Jasmin Darznik on the writer who gave her hope. | Lit Hub
- “Well-loved books stay the same even as so much else changes.” Why we re-read books from our childhoods—and what they can teach us about ourselves. | The Atlantic
- A world in chaos has yielded a surprising publishing trend, at least in the UK: “a surge in the popularity of intelligent, challenging nonfiction, often books that are several years old.” | The Guardian
- “Read more; make friends.” Networking advice for the antisocial writer. | Electric Literature
- PBS is adapting Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sandition, but what is it exactly? An “anti-romantic fragment” that Austen wrote while dying, apparently. | JSTOR Daily
- Former Publishers Weekly editor and author of the best-selling How to Get Happily Published: A Complete and Candid Guide Judith Applebaum has died at 78. | The New York Times
- “The robot named César Aira was going through a relatively amicable divorce with his wife, a famous documentary filmmaker and part-time reflexologist named Onoto Watanna.” Short fiction by Eugene Lim. | Asian American Writers Workshop
- Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel The Expatriates is being adapted for Amazon Prime by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films. | Vulture
