TODAY: In 1980, playwright Harold Pinter marries writer and historian Antonia Frazer.
- “Black children deserve the most abundant love ever created.” Kiese Laymon in conversation with Brandon Taylor. | Lit Hub
- “No one has ever offered me any writing advice, nor did I ever ask,” and other revelations from Joyce Carol Oates. | Lit Hub
- Can you name the bestselling book of 1982? It’s not good. As are most of the biggest bestsellers of the last 100 years. | Lit Hub
- The former editor of The Guardian on what it was like to work with Julian Assange to publish Wikileaks. | Lit Hub
- From a thriving literary scene to rent that won’t ruin your life: five reasons a writer should move to St. Louis. | Lit Hub
- The opulence of the Gilded Age went hand in hand with suffering, inequality, and of course, plenty of murder. Rosemary Simpson rounds up 6 works of historical fiction that use their Gilded Age settings to the fullest. | CrimeReads
- Helen Schulman on five books that came out of Stanford, featuring works by ZZ Packer, Tobias Wolff, and Ron Hansen. | Book Marks
- “Sometimes, she just does it because she can.” Oyinkan Braithwaite on how she dreamt up her charming, chilling female murderer for My Sister, the Serial Killer. | Vulture
- On Barracoon and Zora Neale Hurston as accomplished ethnographer. | The Nation
- “It really takes time to make something good.” Deborah Eisenberg dishes out the writing advice no one really wants to hear. | Electric Lit
- We know Victor Hugo as a literary realist. His ink drawings, on the other hand, share more in common with the surrealists. | JSTOR
- How the Internet commodifies Black cultural production (and hurts Black politics). | The New Inquiry
- Abrams pulled a graphic novel about a brown-skinned teen near-terrorist transformed by the power of books after the Asian Author Alliance published an open letter calling the book “wilfully fear-mongering”. | The Guardian
- “Why the semantic somersaults when it comes to race?” On the racist politics of the English language. | Boston Review
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