TODAY: In 1923, Japanese author Shūsaku Endō is born.
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- Emma Pattee on earthquakes, fear of “the big one,” and capturing the human feeling of disaster in writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Its oxygenated prose is minutely alive to the smallest variations in pressure between place and character.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Ilan Stavans on reimagining the life and art of Nezahualcóyotl, an Aztec ruler lost in myth. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The Ferrantes, Hetis, Zambrenos of the contemporary literary world have created meta-storylines, inserting themselves, one way or another, into their work to reject centuries-old dismissal of the feminine personal.” On the reductive meta-storylines about women’s writing. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on how playing tennis helped manage her competitive tendencies while writing: “I do get frustrated at myself when I’m losing.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Tim MacMahon chronicles the early European career of future NBA legend Luka Dončić. | Lit Hub Sports
- “His daughter Nicole, age fifteen, maneuvered carefully between a column of parked cars and a column of those not yet parked.” Read from Nell Zink’s new novel, Sister Europe. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Nicole Rudick examines what typeface has to do with the success of Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby. | Broadcast
- “I now realize how much I sacrificed for so long, how I whittled myself into someone who could survive anywhere, making myself believe survival was enough.” Roxane Gay on finding a sense of place and belonging. | MIT Press Reader
- Grant Miner, a Columbia student expelled for participating in on-campus Palestine protests, speaks out: “All across the country, students and workers are mobilizing to stop similarly politically motivated cuts at other universities. Why aren’t our universities taking up the same banner?” | The Nation
- Look inside the Joan Didion Papers at the New York Public Library. | Vulture
- Anna Mebel recommends against reading Jon Fosse on a plane. | Asymptote
- “Daddy is from a place called Palestine, he said, in a lesson captured by my mother on the family’s camcorder.” Sarah Aziza on family history in Gaza. | The Paris Review
