To read August 17, 2016

Granta Contributor Targeted in Anti-Gay Attacks

“When We Was Fierce” Pulled as Demand Grows for More #OwnVoices Stories

#Women_writers manifesto aims to build community of female authors

Librarians Have an Olympics, Too

The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Thirty-Seventh Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS - As Cliff says "See, somebody's doing the work." Also, Trace is on this list and you all need to read that book for real.

Tana Wojczuk: The Vanity of Crowds: Populism in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Kristin Dombek on the New Narcissism Talking Selfies, Pyschology and God with the Author of The Selfishness of Others

Nadja Spiegelman on Storytelling, France, and a Mother’s Love

Also, I did stay up until some hour that I did not check on because I knew it was too late reading The Obelisk Gate and I have many thoughts and feelings and words and some of them are about the story (OMG) and some of them are about falling in love with an author (because it has been awhile, y'all)(NK Jemisin, y'all) and some of them are about being a writer and reading (so many words, so many many many words) and some of them are about where are the copycats (I NEED MORE OF THIS PLEASE NOW THANK YOU) and some of them are forming into the sentence that means that I will go to wherever the launch is for the third book in this series and that may become a plan, I don't know yet, but it has happened at least in letters in my head, so.

Simone Weil on the Paradox of Friendship and Separation

Colson Whitehead: 'My agent said: Oprah. I said: Shut the front door'