TODAY: In 1948, the first volume of Winston Churchill’s The Second World War is published.
- My day with Andy Warhol: David Searcy encounters an icon. | Lit Hub
- “The language of self-denial is the first I ever learned.” Samantha Zighelboim on the poetics of fatness. | Lit Hub
- Our favorite stories of the month: from babies to The Big Sleep, the best writing at Lit Hub this May. | Lit Hub
- For your literary grifter fix, a look at the great con artists, swindlers, and frauds of literature, from Gatsby to Ripley. | CrimeReads
- New books by Rachel Cusk, Helen DeWitt, and David Sedaris are among the best-reviewed of the week. | Book Marks
- “I knew in order to be honest I had to go to the beginning. In this case, that meant my whole life.” Laura van den Berg interviews Porochista Khakpour about her new memoir, Sick. | Bookforum
- “I felt transformed: I was not just the observer, I was the doer.” Jami Attenberg on solo travel and a last-minute trip to Guatemala. | AFAR
- “The whole business of collecting is a mysterious thing.” At the Antiquarian Booksellers Association Rare Books Fair with everyone’s favorite naturalist, David Attenborough. | The TLS
- The nightmarish dream logic of Bruno Schulz. | Lit Hub
- “I wanted to sink my teeth into the canon, but the canon was aiming its erection straight at me.” Talia Lavin on learning about desire from the Great Men of Literature. | Village Voice
- On the Rules Do Not Apply, The Men We Reaped, and other memoirs that “push back against the idea that there is a ‘normal’ way to grieve.” | The Seattle Review of Books
- On a “self-taught artist and immigrant” (John James Audubon) who lived the classic American dream (illustrating an $8 million book about birds). | The LA Times
Also on Literary Hub: Honoring Tracy K. Smith: A night of poetry in the botanical gardens · What we loved this week: Mary Gaitskill, Vertigo, trees, and more · Read from Joanna Walsh’s latest novel, Break.up.
