TODAY: In 1900, poet Stephen Crane, seen here posing on a fake rock for a studio photo in Athens in 1897, dies.
- From Nobel Prize winners to canonical poets, 20 writers who’re still notoriously underrated. | Lit Hub
- Peter Wohlleben turns his attention to the not-so-secret life of stars. | Lit Hub
- A vigilante feminist terror organization meting out capital justice to #MeToo’s worst offenders? Does AMC’s new adaptation of Dietland take things too far, or not far enough? | Lit Hub
- From cows to Nabokov to art school, 16 books you should read this June. | Lit Hub
- The Word is Murder author Anthony Horowitz on the history of the meta-detective novel and his five favorite murder mysteries. | Crime Reads, Book Marks
- Winners of the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards include Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, CA Conrad, and more. | Lambda Literary
- “I wanted to be able to tell my story directly to someone without couching it in theory, history, the sociological . . . Why pretend I am worth more in some context? Why can’t I just tell my story?” An interview with Porochista Khakpour. | Tin House
- “This was like running a marathon instead of doing a lot of sprints.” Catching up with Michiko Kakutani as she prepares for the release of The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. | Vanity Fair
- “Her art is ignited by voice, especially by voice more usually given no societal, literary or aesthetic power or space.” Ali Smith on Nell Dunn. | The Guardian
- What would James Wood the critic think of James Wood the novelist? Christian Lorentzen considers both. | Vulture
- Literary classics retold as two-panel comics: Grapes of Wrath = “Farming sucks. Road trip! Road trip sucks.” | Lit Hub
- “Who was America’s railroad king?” T. J. Stiles on the history of the rail. | The National
- A profile of crime novelist Zhou Haohui, who worked as an engineering professor until 2007, when he began publishing, online, the trilogy that earned him a cult following in China. | The New York Times
- “The rain had been falling with a pounding meanness, without ceasing for two days, and then the water rose all at once in the middle of the night . . . “ Read an excerpt from Southernmost by Silas House. | Oxford American
- “I spent the first 19 years of my life defending my virginity!” Hannah Pittard goes where many of us won’t: a conversation with her mom, about sex. | Lit Hub
Also on Literary Hub: To travel is to anticipate: Visiting Istanbul’s once-golden city · The faith of a skeptic: Brittney Cooper talks to Will Schwalbe · Read from from Debra Jo Immergut’s new novel, The Captives
