TODAY: In 1954, British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is born.
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- The story she tells is one filled with rage, but also generosity and love: On the 25th anniversary of Bastard Out of Carolina. | The New Yorker
- “The main difference is that I hate people now.” Katha Pollitt reflects on the year since Donald Trump was elected. | The New York Review of Books
- “I want readers to know that there are people like Beau in this world.” Joe Biden on writing his memoir Promise Me Dad. | The New York Times
- “Ceasing to exist will mean that I have done what I was built to do: save the country from The Man Who Must Not Be President.” A short story by David Burr Gerrard, told from the perspective of the algorithm that guided the Clinton campaign. | Joyland
- “Since no one has seen fit yet to print a patients’ guidebook to psychiatric wards, Girl, Interrupted . . . would have to do.” Reading Susanna Kaysen’s memoir in a mental hospital. | Electric Literature
- Big Brother is watching you: a larger-than-life statue of George Orwell has been unveiled at the BBC. | The Guardian
- Introducing the Male Sensitivity Reader©, helping women everywhere to “compose social media posts in a way that won’t offend, threaten, trigger, or cause discomfort to male readers.” | McSweeney’s
