TODAY: In 1957, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is published.
- On designing the first ever book cover of a new imprint: creating Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart for Lenny. | Literary Hub
- Chris Jackson: “Diversity in publishing does not exist,” but here’s how it can… | Literary Hub
- Nick Paumgarten on the hard lessons of being a hockey dad. | Literary Hub
- My favorite books to sell over 20 years owning a bookstore. | Literary Hub
- How Shirley Jackson makes us lose our minds: Ottessa Moshfegh on insanity, mistaken identity, and The Dark Tales. | Literary Hub
- “The love interest to me in this little book is writing.” Speaking with Patti Smith about her new book, Devotion. | Hyperallergic
- Nigeria is my muse: A profile of Nnedi Okorafor, who “has emerged as one of [science fiction’s] most innovative and visionary writers.” | The New York Times
- On Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kara Walker’s depictions of America, “a fractured, bigoted society haunted by a past it dare not accept, collapsing under the burden of its own stubborn blindness.” | BOMB Magazine
- How should a rigorous scientist and a poet be? Why Thoreau’s two-million word journal is his true masterpiece. | The Atlantic
- The Flame, a book of poems by Leonard Cohen completed in the months before his death, will be published next year. | The Guardian
- “I fell at once under the spell of the Master, and have knelt at his knee ever since.” What the novel owes to Henry James. | The Irish Times
- The official trailer for Electric Dreams, a star-studded anthology series based on the work of Philip K. Dick, has been released. | io9
- Mining the ore of language: A 1999 review of Annie Proulx’s Close Range. | Book Marks
