TODAY: In 1932, Sylvia Plath is born.
- 33 iconic Joan Didion covers, ranked (ok, some of them might not be iconic, exactly). | Literary Hub
- The secret literary life of your favorite colors. | Literary Hub
- On the many faces of Sylvia Plath (as revealed by her letters). | Literary Hub
- Alice McDermott is not writing about a bygone America, thank you very much. | Literary Hub
- Chris Abani on faith, James Baldwin, and trying to write about the refugee experience. | Literary Hub
- Uncovering the history of slavery in Detroit. | Literary Hub
- From the return of Philip Pullman to Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami, the 10 best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- MR POLICE YOU COULD HAVE SAVED IT: How the film adaptation of The Snowman went spectacularly wrong. | The New Republic
- Carina del valle Schorske on translation, which “can transform your anxieties—doubt, dependence, hypervigilance—into the virtues of an artist.” | The New York Times Magazine
- One weird trick to help eliminate crushing ennui: Gabriella Paiella on the calming effect of A Pattern Language, a radical architecture book from 1977. | The Cut
- “Her work gleams with the kind of clarity and truthfulness that all too often proves elusive to others.” Lucy Scholes on Rebecca Solnit. | Granta
- Hanif Abdurraqib and Tobias Carroll discuss Bruce Springsteen, how poetry and longform inform each other, and rambling to friends in bars about pop-punk. | Electric Literature
- Master of the literary adaptation Hulu has announced that it will develop a series based on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. | Variety
- The Paris Review is launching a new literary podcast that promises to be “an audio odyssey.” | The Paris Review
