TODAY: In 1930, writer Stanley Elkin is born.
- In the early summer of 1924 two American writers sat in a Paris café: On the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. | Literary Hub
- I think we need to be frightened: Highlights from Claudia Rankine’s talk at BAM’s Eat, Drink, and Be Literary. | Literary Hub
- Is melancholy a suburban condition? Rick Moody, life coach, offers answers. | Literary Hub
- The doctor said I had seen too many bad things: Boxing through trauma during the Afghan civil war. | Literary Hub
- Smiley is an anti-James Bond: 1974 review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. | Book Marks
- Reading the darkness between the lines: How Netflix’s new Anne of Green Gables adaptation tackles the trauma hinted at in L. M. Montgomery’s beloved series. | The Atlantic
- On the prescient politics of Herman Melville, who “saw the United States, diseased with false innocence and a ravenous desire for getting rich, heading toward Apocalypse.” | The Nation
- “If I’m just an asshole in cowboy boots, there’s nothing for me to do.” Edan Lepucki speaks to Kevin Bacon about playing the titular character in Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick adaptation. | Esquire
- On Yaa Gyasi, visual artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, and the “representational chasm” of African immigrants in America. | The New York Times Magazine
- A new Amazon policy regarding third-party re-sellers demonstrates the company’s willingness to “further erode publishers’ bargaining power and market share.” | The New Republic
- The long-term aim of the Soviet state machine was to take his life: Eimear McBride on Osip Mandelstam and writing poetry under Stalin. | New Statesman
- “So you see I’m capable of telling a lie. But only if I really think it’s harmless.” Barbara Browning on the slippery boundaries of reality and fiction. | Catapult
- Three recent Whiting Award-winning poets read from their work. | Literary Hub
Also on Literary Hub: 10 books by Czech women we’d like to see in English · On Norwescon and the Philip K. Dick Award ceremony · A short story by Chavisa Woods.
