TODAY: In 1872, poet, novelist, and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar is born.
- Eileen Myles on guns, gays and pride. | Literary Hub
- Why superheroes are bigger than their stories. | Literary Hub
- Zinzi Clemmons on the importance of editors of color, and what it means to be an inclusive literary journal. | Literary Hub
- Writing must explore its relation to power: Robert Glück on the beginnings of new narrative. | Literary Hub
- Actually, story, inoculum: Flash fiction by Joy Williams. | Tin House
- “Sterling is an old-fashioned gentleman, and Lawrence is really an anarchist.” On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Sterling Lord, “two of the last living links to the Beat Generation.” | The New York Times
- On the passionate, literary, and perhaps imagined loves of Herman Melville. | The New Republic
- I didn’t really imagine this, not really: Reflections on the Brexit. | n+1
- Lorrie Moore on recent biographies of Helen Gurley Brown and her “imprecisely feminist” legacy. | NYRB
- “From the start of my writing life I was anxious about fully expressing my thoughts and feelings in words:” Margo Jefferson on perfectionism, musical theater, and becoming a writer. | The Guardian
- I am the Magpie and these are the bright snippets I collected this week: Announcing a new anonymous column from Catapult. | Catapult
- Silk punk and seductive drawls: The best sci-fi, fantasy, and crime novels of 2016 thus far. | Flavorwire, The New York Times
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