TODAY: In 2005, John Banville receives the Booker Prize for The Sea.
- Hope Ewing talks to Talia Baiocchi about the birth of Punch, and how to make a career writing about booze. | Lit Hub
- Dear Edward Abbey: Things aren’t looking great for the wild. Amy Irvine epistolizes on America’s vanishing wilderness. | Lit Hub
- October 10, 1967: today’s excerpt from Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries. | Lit Hub
- Secrets of the Book Designer: Alison Forner on creating the cover for Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ Small Fry. | Lit Hub
- Eight essential science fiction and crime crossovers, featuring Nnedi Okorofor, Marie Lu, Aliette de Bodard, Malka Older, and more. | CrimeReads
- Book Marks and The Great American Read: classic stories of love in its many forms, from Americanah to The Call of the Wild. Book Marks
- This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: NBCC Award-winning critic, poet, and essayist, William Logan on Moby Dick, Claudia Emerson, and Samuel Johnson. | Book Marks
- “He referred to me as a matron, for example, which is not just sexist but also ageist.” Kate Atkinson responds to Jonathan Dee’s New Yorker review of her new novel. | The Guardian
- Good news for book hoarders: growing up in a house full of books (over 80, to be precise) has been found to lead to higher skills in reading, mathematics, and digital communication. | Mental Floss
- Which children’s classic secretly taught Sartre’s existentialist philosophy to Americans? Prepare to have your mind blown. | Full Stop
- “Translation navigates between making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.” On the inherent philosophical dichotomy of translation—and what makes a good one. | Aeon
- An ode to the Great British Baking Show of crime fiction: cosy, recipe-laced murder mysteries by the “Queen of Culinary Capers.” | Eater
- From classic to forgettable, a ranking of every Murakami book. | Vulture
- “Derek also would often tell me that poetry can hypnotize the harshest of critics and this allowed him to thrive in environments that saw him as a felon.” Randall Horton on the life-saving potential of poetry. | Harriet
Also on Lit Hub: Jim Mustich on writing a book of a thousand books • Kristen Arnett on librarians and boundaries • Read from Love is Blind
