TODAY: In 1948, Nobel Prize winner Svetlána Alexándrovna Alexiévich is born.
- Finding poems in my own labyrinth: Emily Carr on the minotaur that broke her heart. | Literary Hub
- What to do when no one shows up to your reading. | Literary Hub
- Ocean Vuong on learning English and the first poem he ever wrote, “If a Boy Could Dream.” | The New Yorker
- Almost famous: a reading list about the precarious cusp of stardom. | Bookforum
- “Young women also have this enormous resilient joy in their being, and that I think is something to celebrate.” An interview with Louise Erdrich. | The Rumpus
- In the wake of the Arab Spring, a new wave of dystopic, surrealist fiction has taken root in the Middle East. | The New York Times
- Christie’s is set to auction a “legendary” first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland next month—one of just 22 surviving copies. | The Guardian
- Whit Stillman, the director of Love & Friendship discusses his failed career as a writer and adapting Jane Austen for the screen. | Hazlitt
- Fear of the blank page: Elissa Altman on navigating shame, and giving yourself permission to succeed. | On Being
- “I was taught from a very young age that ‘manko’ was a bad word.” Megumi Igarishi, creator of controversial 3D-printed “vagina art,” has released a new manga memoir. | Hyperallergic
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