TODAY: In 1915, P. G. Wodehouse’s short story “Extricating Young Gussie” is published in The Saturday Evening Post, introducing the characters Jeeves and Bertie.
- When to heal and when to hurt: life as a combat medic in Iraq. | Literary Hub
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with some writing (and reading) advice. | Literary Hub
- Marlon James, Jamaica Kincaid, Colum McCann and others discuss the American immigrant experience. | Literary Hub
- Meet the German-Jewish refugees who created one of the most beloved children’s books of all time. | Literary Hub
- Should we be sending whale song into deep space? | Literary Hub
- From the Holocaust to Hiroshima, on what it means to be a “survivor.” | Literary Hub
- “If there are those who are shocked by it, I am tempted to say, ‘All right, go ahead and be shocked.’” Dorothy Parker on The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, who died yesterday at 91. | Book Marks
- “It was hard to tell what Cubans thought about a dead white American being promoted as one of their country’s icons.” How Havana sells Hemingway as a tourist attraction. | VICE
- “To point out that there are continuities is not to deny that there are new and novel aspects to this present terror.” Junot Díaz on Trump, immigration, and community. | On Being
- A planned protest of the new It adaptation organized by a (fake) professional clown has been revealed as a publicity stunt. | NBC
- “She will perhaps acknowledge here because it’s the end of the story, that this is her entire goal as a fiction writer: to show how often people try and fail to love one another.” Lynn Steger Strong on the story she’ll never write. | Catapult
- On the slow disappearance of fireflies, which for years “have helped humans tell ourselves the knotty, paradoxical story of who we think we are.” | Jezebel
- “There exists at least one person who has worked intimately—and independently—with both men, and has lived to tell about it.” When Barry Hannah met Robert Altman. | Oxford American
- Danielle Steel writes at a custom desk made from gigantic replicas of her own books. | Vanity Fair
Also on Lit Hub: On modernizing China by destroying its language · Finding peace in the home of the old Japanese gods · An excerpt from Wioletta Greg’s new novel, Swallowing Mercury.
