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Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (August 26th)
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Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out:
Is your reading list making you too happy? Try these ultra-grim novels
Guernica interviews comics legend Gilbert Hernandez
The Smiths’ Morrissey is publishing a novel this fall
WIRED looks at the fall-out of the Hugo controversy
A list of great contemporary female short story writers
What is the relationship between inaccessibility and literary brilliance?
For some reason, people are cracking down on little free libraries
How Ray Bradbury was the best writing teacher you could ever have
On the weird and mythic roots of the Western genre
Is Jonathan Franzen the greatest social media troll or is he serious?
