TODAY: In 2005, poet Robert Creeley, seen here in a portrait from 1972 by Elsa Dorfman, dies.
- The time Elena Passarello fell in love with a unicorn that was actually a goat. | Literary Hub
- Ishion Hutchinson: this is not a defense of poetry. | Literary Hub
- When contemporary literary novels get mysterious: on recent work by Katie Kitamura, Patty Yumi Cottrell, and more. | Literary Hub
- Wolves, tigers, cats, and more: 50 fascinating works of Angela Carter fan art. | Literary Hub
- “She does what she fucking pleases.”
- A profile of revered editor Nan Talese. | Vanity Fair
- Ben Lerner on Australian writer Gerald Murnane, a fellow poet-philosopher of the plains. | The New Yorker
- “The reader gets some beauty from the book in exchange for some darkness that grows in his mind.” An interview with Samanta Schweblin. | Full Stop
- “The difference between a threat and a danger is largely in how you respond to it.” Ariel Lewiton interviews Blair Braverman. | Guernica
- “Focus on your own sense of self in a place where questions of belonging are at the heart of local politics and culture, however, and you risk misunderstanding the place entirely.” On the frequent failures of travel writing. | The Atlantic
- A reading list of tribal literature from India, which until recently “has not been very recognized or available for an Indian or global audience.” | Words Without Borders
- Bob Dylan has generously offered to stop by the Swedish Academy during a tour stop in Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize in Literature. | NPR
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