TODAY: In 1851, James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans, dies.
- From triumph to terror: how America grappled with the dawn of the nuclear age. | Literary Hub
- 7 writers who are also great editors… | Literary Hub
- Dealing with grief by cleaning the house: on death, loss, and Marilynne Robinson. | Literary Hub
- Fake news and the rise of fascism in 1920s Europe. | Literary Hub
- The importance of sending booksellers abroad: Bookselling Without Borders launches a Kickstarter. | Literary Hub
- “Life is heartbreak, but it is also uncharted moments of kindness and reconciliation.” Joyce Carol Oates on Alice Munro’s The Progress of Love. | Book Marks
- “Books become true, you know?” Helena Fitzgerald profiles Eileen Myles. | Rolling Stone
- We marched day after day: A final interview with writer, artist, and activist Kate Millett. | The New Yorker
- “I love the way he plays with our expectations of autobiography, how he frustrates our desire to find the perfect leftist, activist, Latin American writer and revolutionary who is heroic in all the right ways.” Jenny Zhang on Roberto Bolaño. | The Atlantic
- “I am not always sure if I wrote it or just tried to avoid writing it and failed.” An interview with Impossible Views of the World author Lucy Ives. | Bookforum
- the reward for goodness / is just more goodness /and sometimes not even that: A poem by Kaveh Akbar. | BuzzFeed Reader
- 10 contemporary short stories that “do something interesting or startling or just downright swoony with the form.” | The Guardian
- “The bucket was half full of papery spit globs. Soon she’d be able to take it outside and add onto her project: an enormous wasp nest big enough to house a human body.” A short story by Kristen Arnett. | Burrow
