TODAY: In 1996, Marguerite Duras dies.
- Quartez Harris on the lasting impact of Little Man, Little Man, James Baldwin’s children’s book. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Caroline Carlson recommends 10 new children’s books by Dayeon Auh, Kirli Saunders, Marta Bartolj, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Yeah, parenting reduces writing time, but it can give you more to write about, plus a mother’s ruthless efficiency about using the time available.” Allegra Goodman and Emma Donoghue discuss their books, their kids, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Rebecca Morgan Frank rounds up new poetry collections that are “a wee bit apocalyptic.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- New sci-fi and fantasy books by Karen Russell, Grace Curtis, Philip Fracassi, and more are coming this month. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The young woman—young, though nearly forty—stood with her head bent slightly toward the window of McNally Jackson bookstore on Prince Street.” Read from Anthony Giardina’s novel, Remember This. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The gastrointestinal agonies of writers, it turns out, forms practically its own canon, one that dates back almost to the beginning of Western science’s attempts to understand the digestive tract.” Will Boast presents a literary history of indigestion. | VQR
- Robin Robertson remembers the Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside, who died in May. | Poetry
- “I’m writing partly to figure out what I think of events or people or trends.” Kara Rota and Curtis Sittenfeld in conversation. | Dirt
- How Rick Steves “devoted his entire career to sneaking the vegetables of his values into the creme brûlée of European travel.” | Salon
- “Sure, there are websites where you can find some of this material, like the Internet Archive. But this archive is mine. It’s my own little Library of Alexandria…” On the virtues of becoming your own digital librarian. | 404 Media
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