TODAY: In 1875, Thomas Mann is born. 

• Aram Mrjoian explores the tension and creativity of fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide: “I’m not naïve enough to think I made something new, but I take some pride in having found my own way.” | Lit Hub Craft
• Amir Hussain considers prison literature and the state-led suppression of language. | Lit Hub Politics
• “I’ve always been interested in MLMS, then I found these other schemes, where you’re not even selling anything. In some ways they’re less legitimate, because there’s no product.” Dwyer Murphy interviews Megan Abbott about writing a thriller of suburban conspiracies. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Susan Choi’s Flashlight, Todd S. Purdum’s Desi Arnaz, and Melissa Febos’ The Dry Season all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Susan Walter recommends novels that dangle juicy family secrets by Celest Ng, Lisa Jewell, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Read “Poetics,” a poem by Aaron Shurin from the collection Elixir: New and Selected Poems. | Lit Hub Poetry
• Thomas E. Ricks offers a step-by-step guide for aspiring authors of nonfiction. | Lit Hub Craft
• “To live in community with a place creates a sense of collective coherence….The absence of it: trauma.” Bridget Crocker on the importance of listening to the voice of the natural world. | Lit Hub Nature
• “Animals were her first love. Guinea pigs, prairie mice, salamanders with bright pink spots.” Read from Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s new novel, Transplants. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “That’s what we lost: the symphony of a mind that contained us all.” Christopher Bollen on his friend, Edmund White. | Vulture
• Marilyn Robinson considers life in an occupied America. | New York Review of Books
• “Whether we call Lorelei too fast and loose or a little slow on the uptake, we do so with the fantasy of finding truth in speed.” Jeewon Yoo revisits Anita Loo’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. | Public Books 
• Dan Sinykin interviews Tom Comitta about what people do (and don’t) want to read. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Thuy Dinh examines literature of the Vietnamese diaspora. | Words Without Borders
• Maya Lerman interviews Melissa Febos: “ I think my work is self-help, but it’s just me helping myself and making that process transparent to other people.” | Dirt

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