TODAY: In 1613, Sir Thomas Overbury is murdered as the result of a scandal caused by his poem “A Wife.” 
  • Janis Cooke Newman on the need for a writing tribe, emerging writers who support and celebrate each other (and enjoy some wine together too). | Literary Hub
  • Happy birthday to Catapult, launching today with writing from Fatima Bhutto, Alexander Chee, Padgett Powell, Joy Williams, and more. | Catapult
  • Jenny Zhang on the Best American Poetry controversy and the experience of actually being a writer of color (which includes “racism, erasure, tokenization, self-devaluation, and the constant requests for free intellectual labor”). | BuzzFeed Books
  • Bill Clegg on the future of books, and the vulnerability of publishing, and developing a softer touch. | The Guardian
  • How a can of exploded green beans prompted Phillip Kelley to uncover and publish over 11,000 of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s letters. | Humanities Magazine
  • The sycophantic portrait of an intellectual bully: on James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, the world’s first and greatest biography. | Wall Street Journal
  • #TwitterFiction is now a thing, allowing authors both formal experimentation and engagement with teens. | The Atlantic
  • Literature both covetous and condemning of wealth: on fiction’s evolving portrayal of the rich. | The New Yorker
  • Justin Taylor parses Sam Lipsyte’s sentences in a self-proclaimed craft talk that nobody asked for. | BOMB Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: Juliet Jacques on life after transition—and publication · Reaching thousands of young readers in Austin: an interview with BookPeople · From Carmiel Banasky’s The Suicide of Claire Bishop

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