TODAY: In 2014, Maya Angelou dies at age 86.
- A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub
- “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir
- James Shapiro on Willa Cather and the social and cultural impact of film’s triumph over the stage. | Lit Hub Biography
- What does the art of collage have in common with writing? According to Emma Copley Eisenberg, “collage works in layers that are both similar to and totally unlike drafts of writing: nothing is erased; things are only added.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Yael van der Wouden explores how to write an actually good sex scene (no, really). | Lit Hub Criticism
- How the legendary editor Judith Jones put Sylvia Plath and Julia Childs into the hands of American readers. | Lit Hub Biography
- Mark Harman on learning to understand both the surfaces and “subterranean passages” while attempting a new translation of Kafka. | Lit Hub On Translation
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Sally Wen Mao, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more! These 19 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Article continues after advertisement - “The road beyond the white security gate, fringed by the rich green foliage of June, curved gently out of sight.” Read from Teddy Wayne’s new novel, The Winner. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Take a look inside Alice Munro’s notebooks, where the author “tinkered and experimented, made detours and sudden revisions—where she surveyed the whole field of possibility before committing herself to a full, typed version of a story.” | The Paris Review
- “I think in my poems grief is synonymous with connection. To give up the grief is to give up the connection.” Hanif Abdurraqib interviews Diane Seuss. | The New Yorker
- David Palumbo-Liu makes the case for boycotting Israeli universities: “Ignored by these arguments is the extent to which Israeli universities undermine Palestinian education.” | Jacobin
- In which a Shakespearean scholar and a Freudian analyst get together. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
- “The encampment—which included food tables, a large free library, and artmaking stations—lasted until April 30, the same night Columbia called the NYPD to arrest protesters who had taken over Hamilton Hall.” On a long tradition of civil disobedience at the City University of New York. | New York Review of Books
- An interview with Paul Yamazaki: “After a week of work the last thing I want to look at is a spreadsheet. A book is always welcome.” | The New York Times
