TODAY: In 1938, Thomas Wolfe dies at 37.
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Terrell Tannen recalls trying to adapt Jim Harrison’s novels for Hollywood—and making a friend in Harrison along the way. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“I can’t approve of this movie, and by all rights, I could hate it. But I am enthralled.” Annie Berke revisits The Notebook adaptation, (nearly) 20 years later. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Phaidon, the publisher that invented the “art book” as we know it today, spotlights ten of their most innovative titles of the past century. | Lit Hub Art
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“In fiction, architecture can reveal that which might otherwise remain unreveal-able.” Kathleen Rooney on writing architecturally. | Lit Hub Craft
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Fran Littlewood pens an ode to midlife heroines in film and fiction. | Lit Hub
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Lauren Groff’s The Vaster Wilds, Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger, and James Ellroy’s The Enchanters all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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See six photographs from W.G. Sebald’s albums. | The Paris Review
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“The banality of evil, the normalisation of evil is now manifest in our streets, in our classrooms, in very many public spaces.” Arundhati Roy on the dismantling of democracy in India. | Scroll
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Argentina’s Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold pro-Nazi texts and seized more than 200 books. | ABC News
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“Our only weapon in this fight is solidarity.” Alex N. Press interviews striking writer Alex O’Keefe. | Jacobin
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“What sets Millz apart is his uncanny gift for embellishment. He holds nothing back.” Jason Parham searches for the mysterious and controversial street lit author Quan Millz. | Wired
Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of fantasy tropes reimagined • A poem by Jane Hirshfield • Read from Ismail Kadare’s newly translated novel, A Dictator Calls (tr. John Hodgson)