TODAY: In 1611, the first known performance of Macbeth shows at the Globe Theater.
- Karl Ove Knausgaard drives around with his two-year-old daughter, talks to Paul Holdengraber about parenthood, phenomenology, and not really caring what America thinks. | Literary Hub
- Part two of Mitchell Jackson’s documentary, The Residue Years. | Literary Hub
- How to write teen girl characters. | Literary Hub
- What Borges learned from Cervantes: on language and the thin line between fiction and reality. | Literary Hub
- The cover of George Saunders’s first full-length novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and his thoughts on finally writing one (I’m just gonna discharge it). | Vulture
- Scholar Michael Maar shares his theory of Lolita, which holds that it makes coded references to an unimportant, Nazi-supporting German writer. | The Paris Review
- “Poetry has been the center of my life from the start.” Speaking with the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Peter Balakian. | The Washington Post
- “I will/etch visas on toilet paper and throw them from a lighthouse.” A collection of work from nine undocumented writers. | Southern Humanities Review
- “Unfortunately the feminism that’s the most widely embraced asks the least of everyone.” An interview with author and Bitch founder, Andi Zeisler. | Flavorwire
- On the soon to be released and (unsurprisingly) not at all “terrible” lost poems of Pablo Neruda. | NPR
- Daft Punk, problematic faves, and the refusal to self-market: More thoughts on Elena Ferrante’s anonymity. | MTV News
- From Stendhal to Sherman Alexie, 14 non-Knausgaardian writers of autofiction. | Public Books
Also on Literary Hub: Tanaz Bhathena on why where we write matters · Marie Myung-Ok Lee on discovering what AWP is truly about · Short Creek, Arizona: From Shawn Vestal’s Daredevils
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