TODAY: In 1984, Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 until his death, dies.
- When your hometown is the last place to accept who you are: Kait Heacock returns to read her new book. | Literary Hub
- Kevin Canty on working his way to real stories, from the construction site to the rail crew. | Literary Hub
- Garth Greenwell, Martin Pousson, Brittany Newell, and others on writing first-person queer narratives. | Literary Hub
- I Love Dick co-creator Sarah Gubbins talks self-censorship and finding spontaneity. | Literary Hub
- The crime novelist who writes poetry: how Karin Salvalaggio finds character and lyricism through verse. | Literary Hub
- Why we really do need a new adaptation of Little Women. | Literary Hub
- Tessa Hadley, China Miéville, Ernest Hemingway, JFK, and more: The best-reviewed books of this week. | Book Marks
- Casting “two sets of girls in 8- and 15-year-old iterations, and then a large Annie-esque supporting cast of hard-knock lifers” for the television adaptation of the Neapolitan Novels. | The New York Times
- “Where, among all these renderings, can he find something solid?” On the recently published private journals of Samuel R. Delany. | The New Republic
- They want feelings, not facts, you know this by now: Porochista Khakpour on writing Iranian-America. | Catapult
- Amazon has launched Amazon Charts, which will catalogue the bestselling and most-read books of the week. | Publishers Weekly
- “How on earth had this gone from a famous asylum to a home for books?” Rowan Hisayo Buchanan visits an insane asylum-turned-library. | The Paris Review
- The finalists for the 2017 Immigrant Writing Prize have been announced. | Restless Books
- Essayist and historian Ian Buruma has been named editor of The New York Review of Books. | The New York Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Rare images from the heyday of punk: the Sex Pistols in Paris, the Clash in London · Pajtim Statovci tries to find peace in storytelling · “Contrails,” from Jess Arndt’s much-anticipated collection, Large Animals.
