TODAY: In 2014, South African writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies at 90.
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“It doesn’t matter if you’re worthy of doing it. It matters that it’s worthy of doing.” Amy Rowland on writing about rural America. | Lit Hub
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On Marianne Faithfull, one of the women behind The Rolling Stones: “In a sea of uniformity and fluff, Marianne was an intellectual misfit, lugging around copies of Tolstoy and the complete works of Shakespeare.” | Lit Hub Music
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How 9/11 led to the lost world of New York City nightlife. | Lit Hub History
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Daniel Hornsby recommends eight books that map uncanny worlds. | Lit Hub
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Amita Murray on Queen Charlotte, Bridgerton, and navigating the Regency romance genre as a brown writer of South Asian descent. | Lit Hub
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“Most of us don’t mind literary grave robbing, especially when it comes to authors we love.” 5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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“I studied Martinez, first as a baseball player and then, eventually, as an artist—I close-read him as you would a Modernist author.” Will Harrison on his unlikely writing teacher. | The New York Times Magazine
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In which Kyle Chayka attempts to replace himself with a robot. | The New Yorker
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“Human curation is more essential now than ever as a way to fight the algorithmic selection of writing. That’s what magazines can do.” An interview with Cathy Park Hong. | The Drift
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Jon Klassen talks to Kathleen Yale about collaboration, constructing a setup, and revenge. | Orion
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