TODAY: In 1957, Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (He was the second-youngest recipient, at the age of 44, after Rudyard Kipling, at the age of 42).
- Lidia Yuknavitch on misfits, Melissa Febos, and the time she snuck into Ken Kesey’s fiction class. | Literary Hub
- Talking to Annalee Newitz about her grim visions of the dystopian workplace. | Literary Hub
- Scary literary fiction for people who hate horror. | Literary Hub
- Gabrielle Bellot on the genius of Octavia Butler, who saw the darkness of the past alive in the present. | Literary Hub
- On the publishing shenanigans behind Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. | Literary Hub
- New fiction from Heather O’Neill, via Freeman’s. | Literary Hub
- Neither her work nor her success are accidental: Roxane Gay profiles Nicki Minaj. | T Magazine
- “I want to feel deeply, and I also feel no one understands me.” An interview with Amy Tan. | Shondaland
- Apparently, schools are not yet tired of To Kill a Mockingbird controversies; the most recent has occurred in Biloxi, Mississippi over “uncomfortable” language. | HuffPost
- Going beyond extermination and segregation: On nature writing after nature. | n+1
- “The best feminists are dead and wet.” An excerpt from Myriam Gurba’s Mean. | Autostraddle
- Clashes broke out at the Frankfurt Book Fair after organizers allowed far-right publishers to attend in the name of freedom of speech. | Deutsche Welle
- A new experimental book by musician Nicholas Jaar tests our ability to perceive multiple mediums at once and feels like “browsing an analog Internet . . . while simultaneously channel-surfing noise radio stations.” | Hyperallergic
- “The narrative of all her novels is composed of such common occurrences as may have fallen under the observation of most folks.” In 1815, Sir Walter Scott bestowed “no mean compliment upon” Jane Austen’s Emma. | Book Marks
