- How a self-published writer of gay erotica beat sci-fi bad guys Sad Puppies at their own game. | Literary Hub
- Jacqueline Woodson talks Bushwick and the brilliance of black girls. | Literary Hub
- How to write coincidence: on writerly manipulation, from E.M. Forster to Flannery O’Connor. | Literary Hub
- “I still find it astonishing that we all seem to be connected with one another somehow.” On W.G. Sebald’s five-year correspondence with Martin and Lore Oswald, who escaped from Germany in World War II. | The New Yorker
- 45 highly anticipated fall books, including works by Elena Ferrante, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Nell Zink. | Vulture
- Remembering the life and work of poet Max Ritvo, who died this Tuesday. | Milkweed Editions
- “Why must the flâneuse be restricted to being a female version of a male concept, especially when no one can agree on what the flâneur is anyway?” Lauren Elkin reimagines the wandering woman. | The Paris Review
- A story about narcissists or a narcissist is often serving some other function as well: Kristin Dombek and Dayna Tortorici in conversation. | FSG Work in Progress
- On the newly dubbed VICKS/VAPO/RUB/POETICS, “contemporary Latino-American experimental first-person… named after the general healing salve that sits on the skin, heats and cools by turns, and evaporates, relaxing and expanding the muscles and cavities of the body.” | The Fanzine
- “Now I see even a little gay sex & French poetry would make some folks better citizens.” A poem by Chen Chen. | BuzzFeed Reader
- E-readers haven’t come with books: On ways of reading and the potential technology offers storytelling. | The Wild Detectives
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