TODAY: In 1936, French novelist and Oulipo member Georges Perec is born.
- For your consideration: five writers who should be canonized as feminist saints (because we like the sound of the Feast Day of Saint Maya). | Literary Hub
- What I didn’t know about life, marrying young, and working on the line: Steve Edwards on a young writer’s attempt to make sense of it all. | Literary Hub
- Is such a thing as an ethical reality TV show even possible? And what would that looks like, wonders Eric Thurm. | Literary Hub
- The mysterious onstage origins of Van Morrison’s legendary album, Astral Weeks. | Literary Hub
- “Beware feeling you’re not good enough to deserve it.” From the letters of Audre Lord and Pat Parker. | Literary Hub
- “When I’m around other book critics I’m always struck by how eclectic and wide-ranging their passions are.” An interview with Tampa Bay Times book editor Colette Bancroft. | Book Marks
- The finalists for the Windham-Campbell Prizes, Lambda Literary Award, and Aspen Words Literary Prize have been announced. | Windham-Campbell, Lambda Literary, NPR
- How Tomi Adeyemi became a literary rockstar—before her book even came out. | Refinery29
- Famed nature fanatic Thoreau was also, somewhat unsurprisingly, an obsessive land surveyor. | Places Journal
- “I’m less like the writer going over her own work and more like the survivor looking for what can be saved.” An interview with Wayne Koestenbaum. | LARB
- “I know/the planet/is old/& splashy.” A poem by Eileen Myles. | Poetry Foundation
- “Tom rounds the corner as a charcoal-gray ghost. He’s gaunt in a way I never thought possible for a man his size.” Read an excerpt from Dan Sheehan’s Restless Souls. | Guernica
- Virginia Woof, Bark Twain, and other very good literary pun pet names, by Kristen Arnett and Mary Laura Philpott. | McSweeney’s
Also on Literary Hub: A literary scene on the South Side of Chicago, highlighting the writing of refugees, and new fiction from Kathreneva Vermette.
