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

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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:

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
