TODAY: In 1978, Joy Williams publishes a scathing review of Marco Puzo’s Fools Die in Esquire.
- “We are all paying for it, though these people are paying more dearly than the rest of us.” On the road with California’s climate migrants. | Lit Hub
- In praise of Rumi, priestly poet and master of the one-liner, whose newly-translated poem “In all of love has there ever been such a lover as you?” you can read here. | Lit Hub
- When Stephen King is your father, the world is full of monsters: Joe Hill on standing in the shadow (and light) of his famous dad. | Lit Hub
- “They are devastating, and they always win.” On the maybe future, decidedly English art of mole-catching. | Lit Hub
- A poet’s case for wasting time: Kayo Chingonyi on setting aside the imperatives of late capitalism. | Lit Hub
- PSA: the best time to practice Stoicism is when your flight is cancelled. | Lit Hub
- When drinking really good tea, expect the unexpected, and more tips from the Rare Tea Lady herself, Henrietta Lovell. | Lit Hub
- The triumphant return of Olive Kitteridge, Liz Phair’s whip-smart memoir, Rebecca Makkai on Zadie Smith, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- “Like any morsel of profitable IP, Nancy is both a constellation of specific traits (red hair, sporty blue car) and a neutral substrate that can be topped, toastlike, with whatever condiment the decade requires.” Just who exactly is Nancy Drew? | Vulture
- If those who don’t read memoirs about history are doomed to repeat it, we all better read these two Cambridge Analytica whistleblowers’ memoirs. | The New York Times
- Take a look around Sarah M. Broom’s (second) yellow house. | Apartment Therapy
- From Catullus to Marquis de Sade: a brief guide to history’s filthiest texts. | The Guardian
- It’s been three years since the Islamic State was driven out of Mosul. The third Nineveh Cultural Festival has since then aimed to reassert the city’s place as one of Iraq’s most vibrant literary and cultural centers. | RFI
- An interview with Saeed Jones, whose new memoir explores the progression of his family and country’s views on queer Black masculinity. | Chicago Tribune
- “The subject is a solitary man whose writings tended to track the minutiae of his solitary life, and who died alone in the snow”: on translating the work of Robert Walser into dance. | The New Yorker
Also on Lit Hub: How does one actually prove a human is smarter than a housefly? • Joanna Howard on TV shows that might not have existed, and other radical misrememberings of childhood • Read a story from Quim Monzó’s collection Why, Why, Why? (trans. Peter Bush).
