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“Who knows if they even liked each other? But I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if they came back as lesbians?’” Jessica Ferri on Ann Rower’s Lee and Elaine. | Lit Hub Craft
Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My Lover, the Rabbi, explains why Gilligan’s Island taught him “how to be bumbling and small while receiving the protection of an older, bigger man.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
“When you get it right in basketball, the universe tells you so—the net makes a sound. The rewards you get from writing, the answering echoes, are a little harder to read.” Ben Markovits on the lessons he learned about writing from sports. | Lit Hub Sports
“For our purposes, we begin with the eternal feminine / and its string of beads, end with you / as a girl in Eatonville...” Read “Eatonville, Florida,” a poem by Joshua Bennett from the collection We (The People Of The United States). | Lit Hub Poetry
“If you met anyone as whiny, as disobliging and ego centric as the average narrator of a novel in real life you’d find them unbearable.” Read from Luke Kennard’s novel, Black Bag. | Lit HubFiction
A UNIQUELY AMERICAN FAMILY
A gripping tale following the Moy family back and forth across the Pacific and through two world wars, China’s Nationalist and Communist revolutions, and the Cold War—events that the siblings and their spouses helped shape.
Hapens to the best of us: A new exhibition at the Yale Library explores the literary history of typos. | Smithsonian Magazine
Why Jacques Lacan loved Harpo Marx: “Harpo is an automatic object-machine that converts both the world and himself into a polymorphously perverse source of jouissance.” | JSTOR Daily
When Eriko orchestrates a meeting with popular lifestyle blogger Shoko, the two women strike up an unlikely connection. Soon, fascination turns to fixation, and both women are pushed to breaking points neither of them saw coming...
