TODAY: In 1945, Holden Caulfield makes his first appearance in J. D. Salinger’s story “I’m Crazy,” published in Collier’s.
- “One morning, we didn’t find homes, just heaps of red words piled like dirty clothes on sidewalks.” Read “Dead Cats Continue to Meow,” a poem by Nasser Rabah. | Lit Hub Poetry
- From Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. to American Fiction, we’ve rounded up the 15 best literary adaptations of the year. | Lit Hub Film & TV
- 19 new paperbacks to check out in January. | The Hub
- These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli assault. | The Hub
- “Your only mission among the void is to not end up like all the others, even while knowing that you will.” Blake Butler on (not) finding your voice. | Lit Hub
- “Anything that happens in the present is, by definition, imaginable. We can see it.” Read Masha Gessen’s Arendt Prize lecture. | n+1
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate has won a court order to destroy Lord of the Rings superfan Demetrious Polychron’s unauthorized sequel to the books. | The New York Times
- “While of course the material is political, with a point of view, it’s very much not a polemic.” Daniel Torday on teaching Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail. | Slate
- The secret history of Patricia Highsmith’s life in comics (in comic form). | The New Yorker
