TODAY: In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published.
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- Neil Gaiman and N.K. Jemisin talk comics, adapting the page to the screen, and writing queer characters. | Lit Hub
- Masha Gessen on the lives lived inside the gulags of the Soviet Union. | Lit Hub
- Your literary zodiac: from Tristan Tzara to Maya Angelou, on the boldness of great Aries writers. | Lit Hub
- Kristin Chen on the difficulty of writing across two cultures, when neither feel entirely like home. | Lit Hub
- Eric Thurm wonders when our terrible obsession with watching the rich on TV will ever end. | Lit Hub
- Praise to the young writers: we need their stories and they need to hear it. | Lit Hub
- 59 years ago today, Raymond Chandler died after transforming the mystery genre; here are 49 of the best covers of his masterpiece, The Long Goodbye, and a look back at its early reviews. | CrimeReads, Book Marks
- “Everything’s totally unacceptable and it’s outrageous and it’s not okay.” Scenes from the March for Our Lives in New York City and Washington D.C. | New York Review of Books
- A courtroom drama finds itself in court: Lawyers weigh in on the Harper Lee estate’s lawsuit against Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway-bound adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. | The New York Times
- “To strip the wallpaper off the fairytale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.” An excerpt from Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living. | The Guardian
- Some addicts get pitied, others get blamed: Leslie Jamison on Blueschild Baby, a forgotten novel by George Cain that belongs in the addiction canon—and why it hasn’t found a place there. | The New Yorker
- “The book overall is a coming of age in black girlhood and black womanhood, with the obvious understanding that those things are not monoliths.” An interview with Eve Ewing. | The Intercept
- Killing and Dying author Adrian Tomine on his influences, the economics of illustration, and growing up in Sacramento. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “The most political thing that Barb was willing to say at first was this: —I’m playing Zelda in my head. The whole time these bitches are talking.” Short fiction by Jeanne Thornton. | n+1
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