TODAY: In 1855, Victor Hugo dies.
- Reporters from the Washington Post answer anything: on clickbait, bias, and our new national nightmare. | Literary Hub
- The Wisdom of Sendak: Children are wild, honest, immoral creatures. | Literary Hub
- On America’s perpetual longing for utopia (which isn’t looking likely at the moment). | Literary Hub
- Anxiety on the baseball diamond: on the problem of mental illness in professional sports. | Literary Hub
- Jessica Hopper: “Emo comes off like Rimbaud at the food court.” Classic writing from one of America’s great rock critics. | Literary Hub
- On the 50th anniversary of Langston Hughes’ death, read a 1930 New York Times review of his debut novel, Not Without Laughter. | Book Marks
- Soon you’ll be able to get your Margaret Atwood fix on Netflix and Hulu: an adaptation of Alias Grace is set to debut this fall. | The Huffington Post
- Why the growing popularity of reading in bed precipitated a moral panic in the 18th century. | The Atlantic
- “The irony is that my catharsis was writing down that there is no catharsis.” Maggie Nelson on The Red Parts, 10 years later. | The Guardian
- A relatively traditional adaptation of a wildly unconventional novel: How Jill Soloway’s I Love Dick falls short as transgressive art. | Vogue
- “If I ain’t know better, I would think she was poor like the rest of us. Too poor to live with people who look like her.” Short fiction by t’ai freedom ford. | BOMB
- From In Cold Blood to The Devil in the White City, 10 of the best true crime books of all time. | Publishers Weekly
- On Santa Fe’s “burgeoning new literary scene” (and a boom in small, independent presses). | Santa Fe New Mexican
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