TODAY: In 1644, John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 
  • A very entertaining interview with Jerry Stahl, an old new Dad. | Literary Hub
  • The authors of the best books of the year (according to Publishers Weekly) present the other best books of the year (according to themselves). | Publishers Weekly
  • National Book Award winners Adam Johnson and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss Tupac holograms and fusing poetry and journalism, respectively. | The New York Times
  • Wherever you go for the rest of your life Paris stays with you: Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, copies of which are being left as tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks, has become a bestseller in France. | NPR
  • A “smutty romp” with T.S. Eliot: On Eliot’s never before published “Improper Rhymes” and martial poems. | New Statesman
  • “A rock band, from a certain point of view, is an ideal vehicle for poetry.” On Richard Hell’s Massive Pissed Love, a descendant of the Romantics. | Hyperallergic
  • Words don’t need visas, but humans do: Molly Crabapple on translating Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and the loaded fiction of citizenship. | VICE
  • More lost writing by a famous author (William Faulkner) has been discovered! And published!! | U.S. News & World Report
  • To ease their frustration with novellas, the New Yorker is launching an online-only feature for them. | The New Yorker

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