TODAY: In 1914, Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal is born.
- Julio Cortázar on the hazy borders of memoir and fiction, and the fantastic violence of Latin American politics. | Literary Hub
- How to write a libretto about a massacre: Harriet Scott Chessman tells the story of My Lai. | Literary Hub
- Bookstore as political act: Scott Esposito finds resistance on the shelves. | Literary Hub
- Julia Dahl: writing crime fiction among the pious. | Literary Hub
- After facing complaints from parents and state lawmakers, a North Carolina school district has pulled Jacob’s New Dress, a book about a young boy who elects to wear a dress to school one day, from its first grade curriculum. | Cosmopolitan
- “I do think there is something about this hybrid form that meets a need that is specifically female, one that is specifically marginalized by our culture.” An interview with Melissa Febos. | Bookforum
- Fully entering into a different language involves a total upending of the self: Three translators weigh on what Arrival gets right (and wrong) about language learning. | Words Without Borders
- “I read to be filled with a sense of wonder.” An interview with Kanishk Tharoor. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- In honor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s 20th anniversary this month, a New York Times-curated list of Buffy fanfiction, by authors who range from 17 to 56. | The New York Times
- “Considering what climate change portends for our future, the subject ought to be the principal preoccupation of fiction writers the world over.” Amitav Ghosh on writing in the Anthropocene. | The American Scholar
- His insurgent D.I.Y. purity is on full display: On a new volume of Bill Knott’s collected poems, which he may not have “been pleased to see . . . in print.” | The New Yorker
- Gore Vidal on sex, Capote, and the pope in Tennessee Williams’ memoirs. | Book Marks
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