TODAY: In 1888, short story writer Katherine Mansfield is born.
- Yes, Bob Dylan really did win the Nobel Prize: Rosie Schaap on Dylan’s most poetic album · On his literary influences, from William Blake to Jack Kerouac · Patrick Ryan on his collegiate Dylan obsession · How Dylan just wanted to be a soul singer · Noah Berlatsky thinks Chuck Berry might as well have won… | Literary Hub
- The banality of Donald Trump: on Hannah Arendt’s birthday, examining her relevance to our political moment. | Literary Hub
- Brit Bennett on place, isolation, and what it means to be good. | Literary Hub
- When virality goes wrong: Chris Holm on the inspiration behind his new Michael Hendricks novel. | Literary Hub
- Small data is the new big data: two designers explain why personal documentary trumps the quantified self. | Literary Hub
- A lot of people had a lot of thoughts about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. | The New York Times, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, VICE
- Tessa Hadley, Helen Garner, and Hilton Als discuss glamour, body fascism, and writing in the face of no. | Electric Literature
- Market forces at work: On the fiction of George Saunders. | The Guardian
- “Who becomes an artist out of a desire for safety?” An interview with Alexander Maksik. | Tin House
- Marketing categories can be destiny: Michelle Dean on the Brat Pack and literature that prefigures them. | The Nation
- Where the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature originate: An interactive map of writers accoladed by the Swedes. | My Poetic Side
- A new project will investigate “how social, historical, and political contexts ‘haunt’ the work of contemporary Asian American poets.” | The Poetics of Haunting in Asian American Poetry
- “land that calls me foreign land that makes my other language foreign on my tongue:” A poem by Fatimah Asghar. | BuzzFeed Reader
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