THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
Mothman is My Boyfriend author McKayla Coyle wants to settle it once and for all: Who’s the best monster in (contemporary) literature? | Lit Hub Reading Lists
What scientific mediocrity taught Vincent Yu about writing novels. | Lit Hub Craft
Tiffany Tsao explores consequences of stigmatizing imperfect motherhood. | Lit Hub Memoir
“As it happens, most early readers of my novel have found Dickens less sympathetic than I do.” On Charles Dickens and other bad men who are very good writers. | Lit Hub Criticism
The 24 new books out today include titles by Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, Kathryn Stockett, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
How studying octopuses (and other animals) gives insight into the human instinct for caregiving. | Lit Hub Nature
No more excuses! Laura Vanderkam thinks you can make time to read War and Peace. | Lit Hub Advice
Elizabeth Strout, author of The Things We Never Say, on writing “very much with the character in my head.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
“Her feet were as purple as calf liver. That’s what his father had said before he hung up.” Read from Douglas Stuart’s new novel, John of John. | Lit Hub Fiction
Ed Caesar considers the mysteries of Jonathan Swift’s epitaph. | The New Yorker
Scott Fitzgerald’s Chesterfield coat is up for sale at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair (for a cool $25,000). Elise Taylor traces its long, mysterious journey there. | Vanity Fair
Brontez Purnell remembers meeting his friend, punk icon and poet Bambi Lake: “But, oh honey, that was not going to stop us.” | The Paris Review
How Weber State University’s conference on censorship was censored (because of Utah’s HB 261). | 404 Media
“There’s this crushing feeling among people in the industry, whether in publishing and corporate, or they’re writers, creatives, and artists.” The Hachette Workers Coalition talks to Michael Welch. | Chicago Review of Books
Why two recent biographies of Octavia Butler challenge what it means to work with an author’s archive. | LARB
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