TODAY: In 1936, Lucille Clifton, American poet, writer, and former Poet Laureate of Maryland, is born.
- Never-before-published Hannah Arendt, on what revolution and freedom really mean. | Literary Hub
- Silas Dent Zobal: a history of violence in my life, done to me, and by me. | Literary Hub
- Today is the day of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” in which process and civic ritual mask incredible cruelty to members of the community. Nope, not relevant at all. | Literary Hub
- If a bear shows up in the first act, he better kill someone in the second: Tom Bouman on the rules of man-eating animals in fiction. | Literary Hub
- A dedicated East Bay bookseller is poised to open a store called… East Bay Booksellers! | Literary Hub
- Daryl Gregory paid $55 to learn how to bend a spoon with his mind, and it might have worked. | Literary Hub
- He works with cunning and wit and elegiac sadness: E. L. Doctorow’s 1984 review of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. | Book Marks
- Oprah has selected Imbolo Mbue’s 2016 novel Behold the Dreamers for her book club. “It’s got everything that’s grabbing the headlines in America right now,” she said. | Los Angeles Times
- “They wouldn’t have been able to explain why, but this was what held them spellbound: all her movements were as simple as possible and perfectly suited to her person.” A newly translated story by Italo Calvino. | The New Yorker
- Jailed Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, who received the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, has been granted medical parole to receive treatment for late-stage liver cancer. | The New York Times
- “I am just so accustomed to thinking no one is going to approach my body with kindness.” Roxane Gay in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado. | Guernica
- Joining other small presses like Milkweed Editions and Curbside Splendor, the Columbus, Ohio-based press Two Dollar Radio is opening a bookstore. | Publishers Weekly
- “The meditative act of reading is a kind of resistance to . . . our alienation by the forces of capitalism.” An interview with Eugene Lim. | The Millions
- On the unfairly maligned Branwell Brontë, who was “a flawed but talented figure in his own right.” | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: From children’s tales on the frontline of a war to P.G. Wodehouse, Alexandra Fuller on the books in her life · Five Books Making News: Food, family, and fairy tale horror · From Sunset, the Ch’ae Manshik reader.
