TODAY: In 1933, the first issue of Esquire is published, with stories by Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett, Bobby Jones on golf, and Gene Tunney on boxing.
- How my grandfather went from the Pulitzer Prize to complete obscurity. | Literary Hub
- So who was Jack the Ripper? Otto Penzler on the most famous serial killer of them all. | Literary Hub
- Witches, Wangs, glam: 18 books you should read this October. | Literary Hub
- We’re destroying our planet and all the wild things on it: Jane Alexander on extinction, pollution, and fracking. | Literary Hub
- On the most photographed person of his time: Fredrick Douglass. | Literary Hub
- Junot Díaz on the importance of the humanities, what science fiction can accomplish, and creating Yunior. | Vox
- “Boring is something I definitely want to avoid.” A profile of Nell Zink, “middle-aged enfant terrible.” | Vulture
- A guide to the fall’s big book awards, from the Nobel Prize to the 5 Under 35. | The New York Times
- “Fiction that I love shows me how profound world-making through sentences can be—a true and complex miracle.” An interview with Maggie Nelson. | Fiction Advocate
- She needed to get closer to him quickly: A short story by Kevin Barry. | The New Yorker
- “Back then my heart was open, my ‘boundaries’ really these shimmery gossamer things that kept disappearing in darkness where no light could shine on them.” Two short pieces by Wendy C. Oritz. | The Lifted Brow
- In case you haven’t seen enough of Elena Ferrante in the news recently: The Neapolitan novels are being adapted for the stage. | The New York Times
- The West Village building housing Three Lives & Company bookstore has been sold to a luxury condo developer. | Curbed
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