TODAY: In 2005, playwright August Wilson, whose work included the two Pulitzer Prize winning ten-play series, The Pittsburgh Cycle, dies.
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- Mary Gabriel on how Lee Krasner made Jackson Pollock a star. | Lit Hub
- Did the creator of The Twilight Zone plagiarize Ray Bradbury, or are time-warping carousels more common than previously assumed? Lit Hub
- “Comics have always been the bastard child of publishing. And I think Tony liked that”: Karen Berger on Anthony Bourdain’s love of comics, and the long tradition of comic book outlaws. | CrimeReads
- On Sunset author Kathryn Harrison spoke to Jane Ciabattari about her five favorite Los Angeles memoirs. | Book Marks
- A computer has written a travelogue of its cross-country road trip, or “the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test meets Google Street View, narrated by Siri.” | The Atlantic
- The Kuwaiti government is stepping up its literary censorship, banning books including 100 Years of Solitude, 1984, and even The Little Mermaid (for seashell bikini reasons). | The New York Times
- On the use of classical music in Aja Gabel’s The Ensemble and R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries as “a way to explore intangible, often unexplainable moments of transcendence. | BLARB
- “His emergence as a writer was, in fact, a record of his imminent disappearance. He was making himself unforgettable, one vivid trace at a time.” Dan Chiasson on Max Ritvo’s new posthumous books. | The New Yorker
- On the 30th anniversary of the publication of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, a statue has been unveiled of the bookworm (and LGBTQ+ icon) facing off against Trump. | New Statesman, TIME
- “The truth was that being Korean and being adopted were things I had loved and hated in equal measure.” Nicole Chung on the complexities of her childhood. | BuzzFeed Reader
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