TODAY: In 1836, poet and writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is born.
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“I would say that reading Morrison over the course of my life as a fiction writer has given me the courage of my artistic convictions.”Jane Ciabattari talks to Namwali Serpellabout engaging with Toni Morrison as both a reader and a critic. | Lit HubIn Conversation
Sergio Luzzatto on The Marquis de Morès,the father of European fascism: “Morès was the first to try to handle the peculiar mixture of racial hatred, alleged interclass solidarity, and organized paramilitary violence to which Benito Mussolini would give the name fascism.” | Lit HubBiography
A COMIC NOIR EXPLORING LOVE, OBSESSION, AND MURDER
Claire Oshetsky’s Evil Genius is an exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman’s insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way.
Allegra Goodman considers her mother’s style: “Great women didn’t need fairy tales or magic transformations. On the contrary, women like my mother fashioned themselves—and I could do that too.” | Vogue
In this adult debut from award-winning children’s novelist Katya Balen, a grieving author heads to rural England for a writer’s retreat, only to stumble upon an incredible historical find that may be the key to healing her trauma.
