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- From Shirley Jackson to Jamaica Kincaid, 10 famous writers who dropped out of school (or were kicked out). | Lit Hub
- On YA literature’s increasing focus on immigrant narratives in the wake of the Trump presidency. | Lit Hub
- “This is what democracy looks like.” James Miller on Occupy Wall Street, protest chants, and participatory democracy. | Lit Hub
- “Because I missed her so, I willed this chicken adobo out of me”: how learning to cook helped Melissa R. Sipin grieve for her grandmother. | Lit Hub
- Aya de Leon on dissecting the myths of the good and bad immigrant, and using crime fiction to counter xenophobia. | CrimeReads
- From Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency to The City and the City, 9 crossover crime novels that demonstrate the vast possibilities of the genre. | CrimeReads
- New titles from Doris Kearns Goodwin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, J. K. Rowling’s alter ego, and more all feature among our Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room, Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under, and more: the shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize has been announced. | NPR
- “The Nobel is a charade, in many respects, but it’s the charade we have.” In the absence of a Nobel Prize for Literature this year, three New York Times book critics discuss the prize’s history and implications. | The New York Times
- From stir-fried pork belly to sumac crackers: the best recipes from the best cookbooks of the season. | Grub Street
- “Bishop wrote about the quiet ecstasy of being kissed in bed and waking up next to someone beloved—but never published these more revealing poems.” Gabrielle Bellot on the loneliness (and privacy) of Elizabeth Bishop. | New York Review of Books
- “We’re like a platypus. . . ugly as fuck and all sorts of parts.” Inside Bolerium Books, a radical San Francisco bookstore. | The New Yorker
- The trailer for Netflix’s very loose interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has arrived. | Vulture
- “Our heroine’s fears, unarticulated, gnaw at her like rats.” An excerpt from Liana Finck’s graphic memoir Passing for Human. | BuzzFeed
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