TODAY: In 1955, Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- Introducing The Maris Review with Maris Kreizman! For the inaugural episode, Maris talks to Mira Jacob about the denial of evil, “good” Trump voters, and much more. | Lit Hub
- What does forgiveness mean in the #MeToo era? Hannah Lillith Assadi talks to Miriam Toews about religion, revenge, and what is lost in leaving home. | Lit Hub
- Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker. | Lit Hub
- “A thriving, unexpected, grace-filled kind of freedom.” On the quiet revolution in evangelical Christian publishing. | Lit Hub
- Get your vicarious travel fix with six fictional vacations, as told by Sally Rooney, John Cheever, and more. | Lit Hub
- “Having a body is not for the faint of heart.” On pain. | Lit Hub
- Hustvedt on Knausgaard, Oliver Sacks’ final essays, a novel that’s horny for itself, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- From Another Brooklyn to Just Kids, see the critics wrote about each of the finalists for this year’s One Book, One New York. | Book Marks
- Lorraine Berry on post-apocalyptic detectives and finding meaning at the end of the world. | CrimeReads
- Do literary programs really work? (And does it really matter?) | The Outline
- The patron saint of teenagers is now a published translator: read a profile of Molly Ringwald, who recently translated a novel from French. | WSJ Magazine
- “Framing bookstores as moral exemplars regardless of how they treat their employees isn’t to the benefit of booksellers.” Indie bookstores might be thriving, but less so the booksellers. | Popula
- Photographer John Suiter annotates his images of the New Jersey settings that defined Walt Whitman’s later years. | Library of America
- “Murray was empathetic. No great poet can not be. He was not perfect. No person who is of his time ever is”: Erik Kennedy on what the late poet Les Murray meant for writers in and outside of Australia. | Berfrois
- How can you win on Jeopardy!? Try reading more kids’ books. | Publishers Weekly
- Roxane Gay has launched Gay Magazine, an online space that will “publish writing about the world we live in, how we are shaped by the ways of this world, the political landscape, the culture we consume, and much, much more.” | Gay Magazine
Also on Lit Hub: On Fiction/Non/Fiction, George and Paula Saunders talk empathy and the 2020 Democratic candidates • The Astrology Book Club: what to read this month, based on your sign • Alexander Chee, Masha Gessen, and Barbara Smith on their literary influences • Read a story by Darrell Kinsey from the upcoming issue of NOON Annual.
