TODAY: In 1946, H.G. Wells, predictor of lasers, cell phones, genetic engineering, automatic doors, and interplanetary war, dies. 
  • Tanwi Nandini Islam on writing about diaspora, the family you choose, and transnational trans characters. | Literary Hub
  • A transformation, not a distortion of the truth: Lydia Davis on Lucia Berlin, the mother of auto-fiction. | The New Yorker
  • An essay on contemporary novels that T.S. Eliot’s mom forgot to forward to his editor. | The Times Literary Supplement
  • Another unfinished manuscript by a famous dead author (J.R.R. Tolkien)! This time there is incest, suicide, and the potential for at least three films. | The Guardian
  • Russia, always one step ahead, published manuscripts so undiscovered that even their authors were unaware of their existence. | Publishing Perspectives
  • Publishers are adapting to the prevalence of phone reading; we have yet to hear about the impact these new technologies will have on looking dreamy on public transportation. | Wall Street Journal
  • Correcting Obama’s short story about the assassination of Osama bin Laden: on Seymour Hersh and media paranoia. | n+1
  • Alexandra Kleeman on the fairy polish of MFAs, male fumbling vs. female reflexivity, and pink slime, a non-fictional entity. | The Awl
  • What do you do, so I have a context for who you are? On the fine line between potential and failure. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

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