TODAY: In 1957, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published.
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- “It is possible that it will be condescended to by, or make uneasy, the neo-academicians and the ‘official’ avant-garde critics.” On the 60th anniversary of On the Road’s publication, read a 1957 review of Kerouac’s iconic novel. | Book Marks
- “He was a deeply personal poet, the greatest poet of memory.” Dan Chiasson remembers John Ashbery, who died Sunday at 90. | The New Yorker
- On a recent crop of family sagas, books which are “haunted by original sin and nourished by dreams of upward mobility.” | The New York Times
- When Harry Met Barry: Roxane Gay pitches all-male movie remakes. | McSweeney’s
- “I spend all day being other people.” An interview with Nathan Englander. | NPR
- A new book of largely unpublished EH Shepard Winnie-the-Pooh sketches reveals how the iconic bear found his form. | The Guardian
- “For him, writing had come to serve the same purpose as the work of a blues singer.” On James Baldwin’s musicality. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- The story behind IKEA’s Billy Bookcase, now so ubiquitous that “Bloomberg News uses them to compare purchasing power around the world.” | Signature
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