TODAY: In 1950, Eugène Ionesco’s first play, The Bald Soprano, receives its stage première in Paris.
- Happy Mother’s Day! Here are 22 photos of famous authors and their moms. | Lit Hub
- “What if you get pregnant? Would you be okay with that?” Read from Sheila Heti’s new novel, Motherhood. | Lit Hub
- On the fear, responsibility, and boredom of motherhood. | Lit Hub
- Paul Theroux on Paul Bowles and the existentialism of The Sheltering Sky. | Lit Hub
- From Psycho to Idaho, 8 of crime fiction’s most terrifying mothers. | CrimeReads
- From Michael Ondaatje’s latest to a book about iconic 1950s film Giant, the 10 best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Her identity—as an out lesbian, as a feminist author, and as a critic—made her a target within the genre she loved so much.” On the radical writing of Joanna Russ. | The Portalist
- “The permanence of his absence is a noise she hears when she listens to how quiet.” Short fiction by Christine Schutt. | Granta
- Women must be able to tell the truth about their lives: Taylor Larsen interviews Eileen Pollack. | BOMB Magazine
- Carmen Maria Machado, Victor LaValle, Samanta Schweblin, and more: the nominees for the 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards have been announced. | Shirley Jackson Awards
- Transcendent compositions: TANAÏS on making perfume and writing fiction. | Lit Hub
- “What is our place in a conversation that pulls us in with one hand and pushes us out with the other?” Katie Heaney on her ambivalence about motherhood—and all the motherhood books—as a queer woman | BuzzFeed Reader.
- Looking back at (MORE), a unique journalism review of the 1970s that made the press “more self-aware, more self-critical, more flexible, and better able to rethink its best practices in the face of its own failure.” | CJR
- National Book Award winner John Casey is among the professors accused of sexual harassment in “academia’s #MeToo moment.” | The Washington Post
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