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TODAY: In 1542, Sir Thomas Wyatt dies. He was one of the first English language poets to use the sonnet as a form.
- “I think it’s interesting that there’s such an overt transformation at the center of the book, but then it’s really about these subtle transformations within a relationship.” Director Marielle Heller and author Rachel Yoder discuss their creative collaboration on Nightbitch. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “I want the words to erupt, the sentences to flower and the ideas to go places I hadn’t expected.” Mark Haber on the beauty of digression. | Lit Hub Craft
- Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings, David Greenberg’s John Lewis: A Life, and John Edgar Wideman’s Slaveroad all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Shelley Noble considers rhythm, emotion, and what fiction writers can learn from dance. | Lit Hub Craft
- Russell Cobb explores the disappearance of indigenous orphan Tommy Atkins in early 1900s Tulsa. | Lit Hub History
- “In the United States, I had to learn an entire lexicon.” Cherry Lou Sy asks who defines what Asian American literature is, much less what it means to be Asian American? | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The voices of the teachers come through the computer speakers: each child must pick a project.” Read from Cameron Walker’s story collection, How to Capture Carbon. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Language has power. It can decide who lives, who dies, whose deaths are mournable and whose can languish under rubble as collateral damage.” On the responsibilities of journalists covering Palestine. | The Walrus
- Dustin Illingworth on coming of age in two graphic novels by Charles Burns: “For his teenaged protagonists, these parties are the anterooms of adulthood, opportunities for desperate bids and last calls, of ecstasies frustrated and postponed.” | The Baffler
- As common uses of language change, sometimes a slur can make a comeback. | Vox
- The first reviews of Melania Trump’s memoir are in and they are…not good. | Book Marks
- “If I have felt for these characters as if I knew them, it is not because of any empathic faculties within me, but by virtue of Ginzburg’s formidable design…” Tanisha Tekriwal on Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino & Sagittarius. | Full Stop
- R.L. Stine recommends some books to terrify your children this Halloween. | The New York Times
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