TODAY: In 1931, John le Carré is born.
- Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins talk abuse, harassment, and Harvey Weinstein, on our new fiction/non/fiction podcast. | Literary Hub
- Philip Pullman is not interested in your sentimental view of childhood. | Literary Hub
- Jennifer Egan on an unlikely friendship across seven decades and countless letters. | Literary Hub
- On the anniversary of Fahrenheit 451 Black Francis on how Ray Bradbury gave him permission to write · 5 books Ray Bradbury thinks you should read. | Literary Hub
- Climate change is coming to destroy all the fairy tale forests. | Literary Hub
- “Lucky Jim is funny in something approaching the Wodehouse vein, but it cuts a bit deeper.” 1954 review of Kingsley Amis’ comic campus novel. | Book Marks
- “Whatever flush of pride or happiness I’d tended was immediately replaced, unwillingly, with sex.” Emma Cline on sexual harassment in the publishing world. | The Cut
- Books set in Maine: 20/38. Books starring women: 10/38. Books where aliens did it: 3/38. Stephen King’s body of work by the numbers. | Tor
- “There is the suspicion both that she was a genius, and that the quality of her genius disqualified her from being taken seriously.” Patricia Lockwood on Carson McCullers. | London Review of Books
- There is a dark side to the Booker brand: On the problematic history of the founders of the Booker Prize. | The New York Times
- From Angela Davis to Valerie Solanas, feminist speeches that have been sampled in songs. | Pitchfork
- In the publishing conglomerate equivalent of serenading your indifferent crush from their lawn, Bill de Blasio is attempting to woo Amazon by shining “Amazon Orange” lights onto New York City’s monuments. | Fast Company
- “This is Midwestern Girl’s life. She bobs for apples. She laughs guilelessly. She is appalled by the price of serve-yourself fro-yo.” On a too-common literary trope. | Guernica
