TODAY: In 1609, Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
  • “The first time I met my new therapist I did not know she believed in fairies.” | Literary Hub
  • Today in awards: László Krasznahorkai was awarded the Man Booker International prize, Deborah Eisenberg has won the PEN/Malmud Award, and Justin Marozzi won the Ondaatje prize. | The Man Booker Prizes, PEN/Faulkner Foundation, The Guardian
  • Shakespeare, sadly, may not have actually looked like a business-casual pirate. | BBC
  • Writing the plural subject: a new biography delves into the double life of poet, novelist, and playwright James Merrill. | Barnes & Noble
  • Pizza, incest, and lies: a short story by Dorthe Nors. | The New Yorker
  • “My fiction should slowly creep up on you.” Charles Baxter on the elusiveness of humor, the languor of profundity, and the dangers of imagination. | Tin House
  • On the heartbreak of attempting to bridge “the gap of the untranslatable, the cultural, the past, the future” through translation. | Publishing Perspectives
  • Allegory to potato planting to the page: Cynan Jones on his writing process, reading habits, and American reception. | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
  • Listicles have been around since the 1800s, at least. The Lascaux Caves could be a listicle, for all we know. | Nieman Lab
  • No Manifesto: reading a 271-line, collectively written poem calling out sexism and sexual assault in literary communities. | The Message
  • The MacDowell Colony has announced the Charlotte Sheedy Fellowship for writers “representing populations across racial and cultural boundaries.” | The New York Times

Also on Literary Hub: Josh Weil, Christian Kiefer, and the American West · A poem by Morgan Parker · Anne Roiphe on psychoanalysts and their patients

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