TODAY: In 1965, J. D. Salinger’s novella “Hapworth 16, 1924” occupies most of the issue of The New Yorker; it will be the last of his works to be published before his death.
- James Salter’s last interview: “I am constantly thinking about what I’m supposed to be writing.” | Literary Hub
- On the appeal of utter individuality: It’s hard to imagine two people cooler than Billie Holiday and Simone de Beauvoir. | Literary Hub
- Daring to drive (and write about it) in Saudi Arabia: Manal Al-Sharif on defying convention. | Literary Hub
- How to unlock the memories of the reader. Or, what Proust taught me about invoking the past. | Literary Hub
- Matthew Carr on the lessons of tolerance vs. Islamophobia in medieval Spain. | Literary Hub
- The book that shook the foundations of Latin American literature: a 1995 review of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo. | Book Marks
- Dwight Garner on T. Gertler’s out-of-print novel Elbowing the Seducer, the “tangiest literary-world roman à clef to emerge from the ’80s.” | The New York Times
- From Marx to Jane Jacobs, five amateurs and autodidacts whose work changed the world. | Verso
- On Percival Everett’s “utter fearlessness in placing demands upon a reader combined with real compassion for ordinary people.” | n+1
- “You are out of the way and grateful to be so, way uptown in a place no one has yet thought to blow up.” Short fiction by Sara Nović. | BOMB
- America’s Big Five publishers have found themselves in the middle of a dispute between Greenpeace and Resolute Forest Products. | Publishers Weekly
- “I don’t think I actually thought about home as a thing to be responsible to. It just was.” An interview with writer, sociologist, and ethnographer Zandria F. Robinson. | Lenny
- Infamous typos in literature, from An American Tragedy to the entire pulped first printing of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. | The Guardian
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