Best of the Web 08/28/17
Twice a month, we feature our favorite literary links. As ever, we promise: You’ll laugh. You'll ponder. You won’t get any writing done.
In Electric Literature, Lindsay Merbaum grapples with writer self-doubt.
"Not a Real Writer: How Self-Doubt Holds Me Back."
Time covers the NYT bestseller scam everyone is talking about.
"Book Pulled From New York Times Best-Seller List Over Sales 'Inconsistencies.'"
At the American Literary Review, memoirist Mike Scalise discusses his debut, The Brand New Catastrophe.
"Writing Humor into an Illness Memoir: An Interview with Mike Scalise."
Essential new reading from Buzzfeed (including grubbie Celeste Ng!).
"28 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Fall."
From Vulture, a profile on Jesmyn Ward and her latest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing.