TODAY: In 1931, Dorothy Parker resigns her job as drama critic for The New Yorker. 

• Viet Thanh Nguyen explains why most American literature is the literature of empire. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Moeen Farrokhi on translating literature into Farsi and life into English. | Lit Hub On Translation
• How unraveling a short story into a novel gave Natalia Theodoridou “permission to indulge myself and my characters.” | Lit Hub Craft
• “For the partnership to stand, Kristin had to do what countless queer women had done before her: she had to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer with her girlfriend.” Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs on their shared love for a cult classic. | Lit Hub TV
• Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s To Save and Destroy, and Vauhini Vara’s Searches all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• “Looking back, I had been pointing my car in different directions towards and away from things with the question in me, always there: How do I get out of this?” Andy Anderegg on writing a book while driving the Sam Houston Tollway. | Lit Hub Craft
• Daryl Gregory remembers his mom, the person who transformed his sci-fi storytelling. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by Daisy Rockwell. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Gita Jackson looks back at the tweet roundup era of blogging: “Non-fiction writing of all kinds is the same kind of illusion; this is why journalists often push back on the idea of ‘objectivity.’” | Aftermath
• Leigh Barudo recommends fantasy books for people who (think they) don’t like fantasy. | The New York Times
• “Whose deviation from the standard is art, and whose is error?” Saudamini Deo on the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. | Words Without Borders
• Daphne Merkin considers Ruth Franklin’s new biography of Anne Frank, and what more there is to learn about the young diarist. | The New Republic
• “This is not the first time that a prominent figure in the history of autism is revealed to have lied about his connections to Nazism.” Åsmund Borgen Gjerde links Ole Ivar Lovaas’s Nazi past and his work on “curing” autistic children. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Rachel Kushner revisits Less than Zero: “I still had some growing up to do, some toughening. Not in life, but in my reading, in my ability to see the value of art that hurts me.” | The Paris Review

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