TODAY: In 1911, Brian O’Nolan (a.k.a. Flann O’Brien a.k.a. Myles na Gopaleen) is born. Here he is (center, in hat) celebrating Bloomsday with his friends Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin.
- How to read your way through postpartum. | Literary Hub
- A newsletter of one’s own: why women writers are increasingly turning to TinyLetter. | New York Magazine
- On the power of Elena Ferrante and Ta-Nehisi Coates to “make connecting less dangerous.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- Bad sex writing from the last of the famous international playboys. | The Guardian
- Beauty is a wound: an Indonesian novelist grapples with a national legacy of violence. | The New Yorker
- Sloane Crosley on the anxieties of writing LA as a New Yorker. | LA Times
- “I don’t ever hold back / on anything.” Found poems by Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker. | n+1
- On using Sophocles to treat PTSD. | The New York Times
- A reading list to nourish your inner teen goth this Halloween season. | Flavorwire
Also on Literary Hub: An interview with Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia · “Did that really happen?”—life and death and truth and fiction · An excerpt from Michele Wallace’s groundbreaking manifesto A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood
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