TODAY: In 1948, T.S. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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What’s the most scientifically accurate way to write about time travel? “I found I could expound on quantum consciousness all I wanted, but it all meant nothing to my greater project if I couldn’t find a way for these concepts to include real people.” | Lit Hub Craft
Thomas Beller on why he saw The Bad News Bears ten times in theaters as a 9-year-old: “Perhaps it was this feeling of paternal resurrection, or at least redemption, that had me coming back to the theater again and again.” | Lit Hub Memoir
Discover the definitive portrait of Jim Harrison—author of Legends of the Fall—in Devouring Time. A vivid, deeply researched biography of the poet, novelist, and icon who shaped American literature’s wild heart.
The National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids returns with a radiant memoir, ranging from childhood, through her years of marriage and motherhood, to rebuilding her life after profound loss—writing and creating through it all.
Lana Lin on the literary and bodily significance of the appendix: “I have no conscious explanation for the bruise that sat below and to the side of the triangle of incisions on my abdomen.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Gina Gagliano interviews Mariko Tamaki about the differences between writing prose and writing comics, telling queer stories, and more. | The Comics Journal
FOR FANS OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN AND ASSEMBLY
Viola van de Sandt’s new novel is an intimate and darkly propulsive story told over the course of a dinner party, from its careful preparation through its explosive, irrevocable finish, about the tensions of love and autonomy, grief and female rage, and the surprising moments when they come crashing to the surface.
