- We’re counting down the 50 most important literary stories of the year. Today, in 30 to 16, writers’ real estate, cringeworthy emails, and powerful women. | Literary Hub
- The best overlooked books of the year, according to booksellers. | Literary Hub
- The year in literary to screen adaptations (and what’s coming in 2017). | Literary Hub
- Five Books Making News This Week: From Jeanette Winterson to Hidden Figures. | Literary Hub
- 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
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