TODAY: In 1875, Nobel Prize winner Paul Thomas Mann is born.
- Benjamin Hale on machines that defecate, and fictional characters that do not. | Literary Hub
- In search of obscure words for even rarer feelings: on naming emotions. | Literary Hub
- On the road with Geoff Dyer, the world’s least effusive travel writer. | Literary Hub
- Teaching Shakespeare in a maximum security prison. | Literary Hub
- “I think people probably miss those books that were written some time ago–the big book that was written with care.” An interview with Annie Proulx. | The Guardian
- “The party for your adulthood is mandatory. The occasion must be marked.” A short story by Jen George. | n+1
- “I think one of the huge tragedies of slavery is just the fact that family lines got completely cut off.” An interview with Yaa Gyasi. | NPR
- Have the Beats aged well? Examining the legacy of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others. | Signature Reads
- The writer must rescue the whispered and the regrettable: An interview with Matthew Neill Null. | The Millions
- On the illustrations of Garth Williams, the artist responsible for taking Stuart Little out of a zoot suit. | The New Yorker
- The female psyche and untamable wilderness: A reading list of women in the wild. | Publishers Weekly
- “I’m not sure [C.E.] Morgan has been to too many Derbies.” Jonathon Sturgeon interviews his mom, a Kentuckian, about The Sport of Kings. | Flavorwire
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