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TODAY: In 1964, Flannery O’Connor, hard-to-please chicken trainer and professional snark, dies. 
  • Memorializing terror and oppression at Celica, the former Slovene military prison turned hostel. | Literary Hub
  • In unprecedented literary news, an unpublished piece by a very famous, dead writer (F. Scott Fitzgerald) has been discovered and will be printed. | The Seattle Times
  • On Viviane Forrester’s Virginia Woolf: A Portrait, a “Molotov cocktail aimed straight at the popular image of Woolf as frigid and fragile.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates enumerates his ten desert island books for the bookshop installation One Grand. | T Magazine
  • A David Foster Wallace biopic by any other name (bromance movie, rom com) would get as much press. | The New Republic, Flavorwire
  • Everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother’s delusions: writing advice from Shirley Jackson. | The New Yorker
  • On the trust that the distrustful Renata Adler demands from her reader, in her journalism and fiction. | The New Inquiry
  • Homosexuality in the African household: Chimamanda Adichie’s and Diriye Osman’s representations of same-sex desire. | Africa is a Country
  • On Robert Penn Warren’s 1965 Who Speaks for the Negro?: “an important, but ultimately flawed case for how white Americans come to feel about and act on representations of black life.” | Public Books

Also on Literary Hub: An interview with Porter Square Books, the boostore with the craziest regulars · Heatwave apropos: Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s Panic In A Suitcase

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