TODAY: In 1939, author and dentist Zane Grey, known for his popular adventure novels and stories which idealized the American frontier, dies.
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- Nick Ripatrazone speaks to poet and teacher Kerrin McCadden about teaching the wildness of poetry to high schoolers. | Lit Hub
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- This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Epiphany‘s Zack Graham on Percival Everett, Brian Evenson, and critics as writers. | Book Marks
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- Emma Garman on Lucy Ellmann’s “ultimate expression of life’s absurd disproportionality.” | The Paris Review
- Months after a fact-checking controversy stalled the publication of Naomi Wolf’s Outrages, about the criminalization of Victorian-era same-sex relationships, Wolf’s publisher has canceled the book’s US release. | The New York Times
- Jack Kerouac’s hometown, Lowell, MA, honored him Monday night on the 50th anniversary of his death. | WBUR
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- “I don’t think there’s a higher compliment in this world than being stopped by a stylish 50-year-old and asked where you got your winter coat.” Zadie Smith on the struggles of transatlantic dressing. | British Vogue
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