TODAY: In 1888, Louisa May Alcott, author of the novel Little Women, dies.
- Among the wilder things: Aminatta Forna on life in the city with the foxes and coyotes. | Literary Hub
- The transcendent humanity of the worst cruise I have ever taken: Ramona Ausubel tries—and fails—to find her ancestral sealegs. | Literary Hub
- Why do writers keep multiple copies of books around? Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado, John Sayles and more on their beloved editions. | Literary Hub
- From a new Ramona Ausubel collection to the first Julian Herbert novel available in English, 5 books that are making news this week. | Book Marks
- “The New Vanguard”: 15 extraordinary books by 21st century women, including Rachel Kushner, Han Kang, and Jesmyn Ward, have been highlighted by the Times for Women’s History Month. | The New York Times
- “I went into a state of non-reality.” Three women have gone on the record about the accusations of sexual misconduct surrounding Sherman Alexie. | NPR
- Reward your subconscious, invest in a love of revision, and other writing tips from Jeff VanderMeer. | Chicago Review of Books
- “The male glance is the opposite of the male gaze. Rather than linger lovingly on the parts it wants most to penetrate, it looks, assumes, and moves on.” Lili Loofbourow on the ways we dismiss female work. | VQR
- “It’s a special coalition [Ken] Layne’s formed between hipsters scattered across the country looking for curiosities, retirees, and desert rats. . . and it’s an unexpectedly lucrative one.” On Joshua Tree-based journal Desert Oracle. | Pacific Standard
- Ever wonder what Jay McInerney is doing now? Well, he’s writing fortunes for fancy fortune-cookies. | The New Yorker
- “Translations seem to give us the permission to say, quite unworriedly: that book? Yeah, I’ve read it. They give us the permission, or we take it.” An excerpt from Kate Briggs’ This Little Art. | Full Stop
- Tin House has kindly volunteered to anonymously send their book about a Large Adult Son to the Large Adult Son in your life. | Tin House
Also on Literary Hub: In honor of Gabriel Garía Marquez’s birthday, 100 covers of 100 Years of Solitude · When the music stops: At a retirement home for dancing bears · Read from Leesa Cross-Smith’s new novel, Whiskey & Ribbons
