The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1744, English auction house Sotheby’s holds its first ever auction (of books) in London. (Pictured above is a 1888 Sotheby’s book auction.)
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s son and literary executor, Theo Downes-Le Guin, reflects on why he decided to update language in her children’s books—and the note she left that guided his decision. | Lit Hub
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Why does Philip Roth matter now? Susan Choi, Ayad Akhtar, and other participants of the Philip Roth Unbound festival chime in. | Lit Hub Criticism
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“Now I think we all are Joyce Carol Oates, more or less. Living our lives and making up stories at the same time.” Jesse Lee Kercheval on JCO, Lorrie Moore, and writing fiction based on life. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Must-read books by forgotten women philosophers. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Dani Shapiro revisits her craft book ten years later: “In the last decade, I’ve come to realize that we writers are all off by a centimeter.” | Lit Hub Craft
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Samuel Ligon considers the function of time in fiction (and life). | Lit Hub Craft
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Are all of Shakespeare’s plays about race? | The Atlantic
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Patricia Highsmith’s 10 most essential books. | The New York Times
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“Writers don’t stop, they just keep going like the Energizer Bunny.” A conversation with Margaret Atwood. | The Guardian
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D.T. Max chronicles the many reinventions of H. G. Carrillo, a novelist whose writings on the malleable nature of identity made him a star in the world of contemporary Latino literature—until a family member’s correction to his obituary revealed that he wasn’t Latino after all. | The New Yorker
Also on Lit Hub: On racism and basketball in the 1970s • What to expect when you’re expecting a book • Read from Erin Slaughter’s debut story collection, A Manual for How to Love Us
