TODAY: In 1813, writer Camilla Collett, who is considered to be the first Norwegian feminist, is born.
- On the page, and in the streets, we must write a better story: Molly Crabapple, Yaa Gyasi, and Paul Beatty react to the inauguration of Donald Trump. | The Guardian
- “Why is it that only when I abandoned literature I suddenly became this fascinating character?” On the beloved Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar’s abandonment of writing for farming. | The New Yorker
- This fall, Doubleday will release The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, which is expanded from the “only written remnant of a children’s fairy tale from [Mark] Twain, though he told his daughters stories constantly.” | The New York Times
- On George Saunders’ children’s book The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, “one of the most haunting stories Saunders ever wrote about the anxiously self-interested.” | VICE
- Continued endless trembling: On Jean Genet’s writings, which “uncover the perverse anarchies that operate within well-ordered hierarchies.” | Hyperallergic
- “I thought it would make such a great work to be able to show this to other people, and for them to understand what was really happening in the USSR through one person’s perspective.” Julia Alekseyeva on adapting her great-grandmother’s diary into a graphic novel. | NPR
- “In death-shock, the head and tail/thrashed separately” A poem by Sherman Alexie. | ZYZZYVA
