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Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (July 22nd)

Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out:

A pretty amazing map of literary road trips
New Republic explains how Joan Didion became America’s main literary celebrity
Franz Kafka was funny, but was he funny ha-ha or funny uh-wha??
Frequent EL contributor Tobias Carroll gives you a primer on the genre of Weird Fiction
24 drug-addled novels that will bend your mind
New Yorker delvers into the strange, unsettling works of James Purdy
A lament for modern publishing
Lastly, the most accurate and most helpful writing tips from famous authors
