TODAY: In 1899, Irish-English author Elizabeth Bowen is born.
- On the 100th anniversary of her birth, understanding why Gwendolyn Brooks will live on forever • Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks’s generosity • Inventing a new poetic form to honor Brooks. | Literary Hub
- Is Richard Brautigan’s most famous novel a minor masterpiece or naive relic? Trout Fishing in America turns 50. | Literary Hub
- How making a movie made me fall in love with writing novels again. | Literary Hub
- An act of literary audacity: Remembering The Siege by Helen Dunmore, who died earlier this week. | Book Marks
- “When a beloved writer dies there’s a different vibration in the world, a quiver, a paradoxical pain in the fact that the corporeal body is gone but the work remains.” David Means on what he learned from Denis Johnson. | The New Yorker
- Jessie Chaffee on saints, sinners, and surviving your twenties. | Literary Hub
- “Being selfish is vital to creativity; it’s not negotiable, until it is.” Emily Schultz on making time to write while raising a child with autism. | Slate
- Eugene Li on the American classics that inspired Dear Cyborgs, from Tehching Hsieh’s Out of Now to Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica. | Library of America
- From Penelope to Pussyhats, the ancient origins of feminist craftivism. | Literary Hub
- “Isadora spent her whole life straddling the gap between public perception and private reality.” Amelia Gray on reading Isadora Duncan’s autobiography. | The Paris Review
- “Our society’s most successful storytellers are probably the people who make television commercials.” Rumaan Alam on his time spent working in advertising. | The Millions
- Jennifer Weiner: from small-town beat reporter to big city columnist and on following the advice to “just write every day.” | Literary Hub
- Harper Lee’s estate is at it again: To Kill a Mockingbird will be made into a graphic novel. | The Guardian
- The Well-Read Black Girl Writers’ Conference and Festival has exceeded its fundraising goal and will take place on for September 9th in Brooklyn. | Electric Literature
Also on Literary Hub: Where are the great Italian women writers? Visiting the Salone del Libro to look beyond Ferrante • A Dorothy Parker quip for every occasion. • Black Moses
