TODAY: In 1867, Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate is born.
- Don Winslow talks crooked NYC cops and whether or not we should legalize heroin. | Literary Hub
- Victoria Redel on the time she worked as an assistant for hero, Adrienne Rich. | Literary Hub
- Can you have a book club for eight million people? | Literary Hub
- The problem with writing about Florida: Kristen Arnett reports from (possibly) within a central Florida sinkhole. | Literary Hub
- The pessimist’s guide to literary wedding toasts. | Literary Hub
- Excruciatingly awful: Back in 1957, an awful magazine (The National Review) reviewed an awful book (Atlas Shrugged). | Book Marks
- Liveright has announced that it will publish “hundreds of letters from four different prisons, to family, supporters, government officials and prison authorities” from Nelson Mandela. | The New York Times
- Poetry and economics are not typically thought of as cozy subjects: On Greek poetry under austerity. | The New Yorker
- “The threat of being branded a traitor whenever she writes, thinks aloud, or makes a public appearance has become the defining feature of Roy’s career.” On Arundhati Roy’s return to fiction. | The New Republic
- “I knew the kind of book I wanted to write, though obviously the book you’re left with is almost nothing like the book you envisioned it would be.” An interview with Nick Laird. | Electric Literature
- “As long you get the book’s meaning across …” Watching the Broadway première of 1984 with George Orwell’s son. | Vulture
- “I usually go home exhausted but very happy and can’t wait to go back again the next day.” An interview with Judy Blume, bookseller. | The Millions
- How a “DISGUSTING MAN HATING BOOK STORE THAT PROMOTES MISANDRISM” defeated sexist internet trolls. | The Guardian
