TODAY: In 1928, poet Donald Hall is born.
- How Daniel Torday’s bonkers writing process tricks him out of perpetual tinkering. | Lit Hub
- So many TV and film adaptations of books to judge this fall! (23, to be precise.) | Lit Hub
- On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Garrard Conley and S.J. Sindu discuss writing about queer identity. With Whitney Terrell And V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Lit Hub
- “Female power was linked with sexuality and with deception.” Wednesday Martin on the original Jezebel. | Lit Hub
- Amy Lilwall on the total weirdness of keeping animals as pets. | Lit Hub
- After publishing (and defending) That Jian Ghomeshi Essay, Ian Buruma is out as editor of The New York Review of Books. | The New York Time
- “When Scribner’s commissioned it in 1944, Young expected it would be two hundred pages and could be completed in a couple years. At a certain point, she resigned herself to making it her life’s work.” On Marguerite Young’s much acclaimed but almost never read Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. | The Paris Review
- “I do think that there is something of particular interest about this trend of women and mer-creatures.” Laura Van den Berg names Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban as “the best sex [she’s] ever read.” | Vulture
- Sophie Mackintosh on how listening to Joy Division as a teenager (“bookish, nihilistic, caught somewhere between timidity and self-destruction”) made her want to be a writer. | The Guardian
- Bob Woodward’s Fear had the highest first-week sales of any book in Simon & Schuster history, continuing the trend of Trump being good for book sales, if not actually . . . for books. | Variety
- “Lovely piece . . . ‘Not quite the thing for this time of year, though.” On the dangers of dressing well in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. | Garage
- Take a look at photographer Franck Bohbot’s portraits of New York’s indie booksellers; along with collaborator Phillipe Ungar, he aims to highlight the distinct personalities of bookstores around the city. | The Phoblographer
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