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TODAY: In 1944, Lucien Carr is arrested for stabbing David Kammerer; Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are arrested as material witnesses. 
  • Charles Bukowski’s rules for writing: be honest, have a few drinks, submit everything, among other gems. | Literary Hub
  • Why Taylor Swift has inspired at least nine times the amount of biographies as Joan Didion (because Taylor Swift is at least 1,000 times less cool). | The Atlantic
  • More than grit, grimness, and quiet dignity: on Lucia Berlin’s expectation defying working-class fiction. | The New Republic
  • Reading David Brooks’s ill-advised response to Between the World and Me as the first step (failure) in his own Road to Character. | The Millions
  • Breaking the glass ceiling of ennui literature: on Ottessa Moshfegh’s disturbing and desirous Eileen. | Bookforum
  • On Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, conceptual diptych and survival tome. | The New Inquiry
  • “One never really understands a book unless one copies it.” A collage of quotes offering thoughts on translation. | Los Angeles Review of Books
  • On Katsushika Hokusai, willfully misunderstanding Asian culture, and the “rugged spiritualists of American literature.” | Ploughshares
  • Humanity’s quest for immortality through writing continues, even as the apocalypse looms ever closer. | Cleaver Magazine

Also on Literary Hub: Bukowski’s biographer on searching for and editing posthumous Bukowski · More than West Wing and House of Cards: A long weekend in DC’s lush literary universe · Happy Birthday, Gary Larson! · Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me in ten quotes · Virginia Woolf’s In the Orchard, a story edited by T. S. Elliot

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