TODAY: In 1962, Sylvia Plath writes the poem ‘Daddy.’
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- “An unpredictable life. . .” Andre Naffis-Sahely on the life and times of Knud Holmboe, the Danish journalist who drove across North Africa in the 1930s. | Lit Hub
- “She painted other women as she saw them: courageous, resourceful, rebellious and strong.” The #MeToo moments of Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. | Lit Hub
- A celebration of the whisky-soaked wit and wisdom of James Crumley, in honor of the anniversary of his birth. | CrimeReads
- New titles from Tana French, Haruki Murakami, Michael Lewis, Kathryn Harrison, and more all feature among our Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “Dostoevski has always depressed me by seeming to be scarcely human”: a collection of some of Lionel Trilling’s best literary burns. | The Paris Review
- In advance of the Netflix adaptation, writers consider the enduring terror of “the greatest of all haunted house novels”—Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. | The Guardian
- Why we need erotica, or how to read the Story of O “as a form of finding liberation from the mental ties that might otherwise bind us.” | LARB
- “I had to find humility to sit as a writer among writers.” Amelia Gray, Megan Abbott and Charles Yu on going from the novelist’s desk to the TV writing room. | Vanity Fair
- Suspicious about the happily ever after machine? Here are some books that might help. | BuzzFeed Reader
- “The best fantasy debut of 2018 has a problem. It was also the best fantasy debut of 2009. And 2007. And 1997, 1985, 1982, and 1968.” Why so many fantasy novelists are obsessed with (magical) academia. | WIRED
- Yet another worthy target of outrage: each incarcerated person in Pennsylvania must now buy a $150 tablet in order to read. | The Washington Post
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