TODAY: In 1931, writer John McPhee is born.
- An interview with the great Rachel Ingalls, who definitely should have won an Oscar for Mrs. Caliban. | Literary Hub
- How I became a Jane Austen superfan (and lived to write about it). | Literary Hub
- Fiction/Non/Fiction: Jim Shepard and Danielle Evans talk gun violence, #neveragain, and the power of student protest with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Literary Hub
- Why do we still buy mass-produced souvenirs? A deep dive into the mini Eiffel Tower economy. | Literary Hub
- How #MeToo can become #WeStrike: lessons in resistance from Latin American feminists. | Literary Hub
- From Stephen Florida author Gabe Habash on an omnibus collection of Thomas McGuane stories to Parul Seghal on Jesse Ball’s latest, 5 book reviews you should read this week. | Book Marks
- Poet Lucie Brock-Broido has died at 61. Celebrate her life by reading some of her work. | USNews, JSTOR
- The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) announced their longlist, which includes Jesymn Ward’s Sing Unburied Sing and Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach. | The Women’s Prize for Fiction
- “It is not the individual crush that provides its life-confirming force—it is the generality of crushing, its atmospheric quality, its circulation around many.” The deep-dive on crushes you never knew you always needed. | The New Inquiry
- “Don’t you think Austen rather hated children?” Ted Scheinman dispels a common misconception. | Lapham’s Quarterly
- “Cat Person” author Kristen Roupenian has sold a horror movie script entitled Bodies, Bodies, Bodies to A24, the studio behind 2015’s The Witch. | Vulture
- Jeremy Corbyn, Jason Isaacs, and dozens of other high-profile British men have joined a call first issued last International Women’s Day to construct a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft in London. | The Guardian
- “Too often, a woman’s pain is not merely met with doubt, but suspicion.” Rachel Vorona Cote on Ask Me About My Uterus and the history of female pain. | The New Republic
- Meet women writers and translators around the world who are “pressing for progress” through their literature and activism. | Words Without Borders
