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TODAY: In 1955, literary critic, writer, and activist Liu Xiaobo is born.
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- Carrie Fisher, actress, author, and screenwriter, and Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, died yesterday at 60 and 96 respectively. | The New York Times
- “He made it O.K. to feel what he was feeling, what I was feeling. I wanted to be a diminutive, profuse, electric ribbon of horniness and divine grace.” Maggie Nelson on Prince. | The New Yorker
- On Paterson, Jim Jarmusch’s “love poem to poetry” (and to William Carlos Williams). | NPR
- Tobias Carroll on metafictional jokes, editing zines and lit journals, and tapping into a nostalgic spirit. | Fanzine
- Try to discover something, open yourself to damage and dismay, and more: Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft. | The Atlantic
- Verses of vengeance and the drunken delirium of greed: Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry in 2016. | The Millions
- Monarchic affairs, wizened apple puppets, and beyond: The strangest information revealed in autobiographies published this year. | The Guardian
