TODAY: In 2016, Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The call is coming from inside the country estate: the hidden horror inside Jane Austen’s novels of love. | Literary Hub
- A musician to astral project to: an interview with Enya. | Literary Hub
- Cadaverous yet blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick’s ode to Bartleby, who would prefer not to. | Literary Hub
- “You are allowed your own fantasies.” Carmen Maria Machado on the surrealist joy of Shirley Jackson | The Atlantic
- Was Stevenson’s inspiration for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde a mahogany cabinet made by a cat burglar? | Atlas Obscura
- Zenobia, Diomira City, and beyond: Art inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. | Literary Hub
- “The world has become a smaller place; it is harder to get as thoroughly lost as Gellhorn frequently did.” Dwight Garner on Travels with Myself and Another, Martha Gellhorn’s “most intimate and not well-enough-known” book. | The New York Times
- “The novel made a deep impression on me, and I read it in a kind of trance. . . And yet, every review that I came across was unconditionally negative.” In praise of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. | The American Scholar
- A new project investigating the role of play in our lives and culture has launched with an essay by Virginia Heffernan, a story game by J. Robert Lennon, and more. | PlayTime
- “Imitation is the most boring thing you can do with a computer.” An interview with the woman behind the beloved Twitter bot @everyword, which tweeted every word in the English language over the course of 7 years. | Motherboard
- Hachette has terminated its Weinstein Books imprint, effective immediately. | Publisher’s Lunch
- A heaven populated with horrors: Read a 1987 review of Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ dystopian superhero opus. | Book Mark
And on Literary Hub: Do even happy people cheat? • The new scream queens: short fiction at the intersection of feminism and horror • Read from Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest, trans. by Sarah Booker
