TODAY: In 1876, French novelist and memoirist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, dies.
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- How an 80-year-old murder inspired Rosencrans Baldwin’s present-day novel. | Literary Hub
- The worst ever first day on the job, and Finn Murphy didn’t even get fired. | Literary Hub
- Walter Mosley celebrates 20 years of Cave Canem. | Literary Hub
- Embrace your monstrous flesh: on women’s bodies in horror films. | Literary Hub
- Naomi Alderman’s The Power has won the 2017 Bailey’s Prize for women’s fiction—the first ever sci fi novel to receive the honor. | The Guardian
- “I will follow her anywhere she decides to go.” Maggie Nelson on Darcey Steinke’s novel Suicide Blonde at 25. | The Paris Review
- Following reports that Senate Republicans were attempting to suppress still-classified sections of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture, Melville House is offering their e-book of the report for free. | Melville House
- “They don’t pay any attention to the loneliness because they feel lucky.” An excerpt from Gabe Habash’s Stephen Florida, introduced by Garth Greenwell. | Recommended Reading
- Some kind of emotional utopia where no one ever gets hurt at all: an interview with Catherine Lacey. | Chicago Review of Books
- “The things that can easily get you high status are the exact things that make you disliked.” Speaking with the author of Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World. | Broadly
- How writing 1984 nearly killed George Orwell. | Signature
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