THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1944, Astrid Lindgren sprains her ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking .

Stephanie Gorton talks to William Kennedy , legendary author of Ironweed , about turning a bedtime story for his four-year-old into Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-button Machine . | Lit Hub In Conversation

“People often believe that we can understand things simply by categorizing them, and that bothers me.” Leanne Ogasawara in conversation with Mieko Kawakami and her translators , Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio. | Lit Hub On Translation

Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audiences. | Lit Hub Biography

Meet the Habsburgs! And watch as their daughters marry their way across 18th-century Europe !…