TODAY: In 1938, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is born.
- Madeleine Thien, Cory Doctorow, and other Canadian writers on their favorite places in the Great White North. | The New York Times
- “Berger’s death invites us to consider the role of the popularizer.” Jo Livingstone on why Ways of Seeing should be only the beginning of John Berger’s legacy—not its end. | New Republic
- So why did you have to ruin all my favorite authors? and other questions for Joel Whitney, author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. | VICE
- Revelations both scandalous and bittersweet: Speaking with Catherine Lacey and Forsyth Harmon, author and illustrator of The Art of the Affair. | Nylon
- The recent closing of the Bronx’s Barnes & Noble—the borough’s only general interest bookstore—adds to the growing number of “book deserts” to be found among some of America’s poorest neighborhoods. | New York Daily News
- “But I must, for the first thing, give utterance to a whole row of thanksgivings for your long-yearned, hard-hoped, fast-sent and all- surpassing answer to my letter, with all its flippancy and hardboiled guyness.” On the letters Cesare Pavese wrote Anthony Chiuminatto to practice his American slang. | The Paris Review
- The Millions’ Great 2017 Book Preview has arrived. | The Millions
