TODAY: In 1923, Japanese author Shūsaku Endō is born.
- Letter to an emerging Indigenous writer, from Daniel Heath Justice. | Lit Hub
- “Fear is good quality control.” Colson Whitehead on the writer’s life. | Lit Hub
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- Poet Wendy Xu: “It’s impossible to put into words the complexity of immigrant love.” | Lit Hub
- Take a sordid literary tour of gilded-era New York City with Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and more. | CrimeReads
- Gunrunners, ghosts, and family gatherings: 5 books making news this week. | Book Marks
- “Berlin Alexanderplatz is less a book than a living thing.” On the historic, joyful new translation of Alfred Döblin’s modernist masterpiece. | The Baffler
- Indian publisher Pegasus has pulled a book on “great leaders” that included Hitler after widespread criticism. | The Guardian
- “I brought bins full of my husband’s manuscripts, and I started sorting: looking for what I could salvage, comparing drafts, and editing what I could.” Emily Doak on shepherding her husband’s posthumous novel into print. | Electric Literature
- “Advice givers, at their best, can attempt to fold together the micro and macro—helping readers pay meaningful attention to other people, and distilling issues that can seem abstract.” On the enduring cultural influence of the advice columnist. | The New Republic
- “I’d never killed a character before. I didn’t know how to feel.” An interview with Leesa Cross-Smith. | The Rumpus
- “A profound nervousness runs throughout his oeuvre, a suspicion that fiction-writing is infected with the original sin of fabulation.” On Ian McEwan’s staid rationalism and the (im)possibility of an atheist novel. | The Point
- Biographer Mark Eisner explains what we can learn from Pablo Neruda’s poetry of resistance. | The Paris Review
