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- From the pages of The New Yorker to the streets of New York: the sad life and times of Maeve Brennan. | Lit Hub
- In honor of the feast day of a Roman-Briton snake charmer: 100 green books for St. Patrick’s Day. | Lit Hub
- The glories of disaster in the golden age of exploration: how polar explorer Ernest Shackleton became an international celebrity. | Lit Hub
- Why don’t we eat more brains? A brief history of the consumption of gray matter. You’re welcome. | Lit Hub
- Gambling with my grandmother: Jen Palmares Meadows tells the story of a family, from the Philippines to America. | Lit Hub
- If you are curious about Ireland’s vibrant crime fiction scene, start with these 15 writers. | CrimeReads
- Alan Hollinghurst, Marilynne Robinson, Wu-Tang, The Wire, and more: The best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “He was working out the aesthetic principles that would both carry through his poetry and inform his appreciation of painting, drawing, and sculpture.” On John Ashbery’s art criticism. | The Nation
- From The Age of Innocence to Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, 10 books Roxane Gay would take to a desert island. | Vulture
- Meg Wolitzer, Tayari Jones, Michelle Dean, and other female authors on the books they turn to when they’re angry. | Shondaland
- “At a certain point in a person’s life, liking Kerouac—and liking On the Road, especially—becomes embarrassing.” Amanda Petrusich on liking it anyway. | The New Yorker
- I needed language for this place, a mechanism through which to work these insights: Frederick McKindra on returning to Little Rock after a decade in Brooklyn. | Oxford American
- Jami Attenberg’s All Grown Up has been optioned for television—with Attenberg herself to write the script. | EW
- What the transatlantic treatment of a work of psychological suspense reveals about literary marketing and expectations. | Globe and Mail
