TODAY: In 1840, novelist, short story writer, and poet Constance Fenimore Woolson, who chose a literary career over marriage and motherhood, is born.
- Vita Sackville-West wrote a very, very tiny real book for the Queen’s dollhouse. | Literary Hub
- 30 books for the 10 countries Americans visit the most (not including Russia). | Literary Hub
- On the pulp illustrations of Edward Hopper, before he became a famous painter of quiet streets and empty rooms. | Literary Hub
- From Rachel Kushner’s latest to Bill Clinton’s (and James Patterson’s) crime novel, the most anticipated of the spring. | Publishers Weekly
- Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington have announced that they will adapt Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere. | Deadline
- “To Brooks, poetry was citizenship. In Chicago, her radicalism is at center stage.” Doreen St. Félix on the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks. | The New Yorker
- It was, as they say, the end of an era: A report from the last party thrown in George Plimpton’s old apartment. | Vulture
- “The exhibition, like the poem, has a brave experimental energy.” On a new exhibition responding to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. | NYRB
- Writers there are creating something entirely new: On the rise of Korean crime fiction. | The Guardian
- Eugene Lim on experimental writing and its ability to “name and subvert or destroy the many literary, psychological, and social ideologies that are hidden from us.” | Something on Paper
