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Mutiny on Martha’s Vineyard: How a 26-year-old Steven Spielberg made Jaws… and nearly lost his career in the process. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Claire Heywood recommends Greek plays for modern readers. | Lit Hub
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Turns out, fig pollination and literary criticism have more in common than you’d think. | Lit Hub Nature
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Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You, Nona Fernández’s Voyager, and Jac Jemc’s Empty Theatre all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Bookshop.org will begin selling e-books… and publish its first print book, a story collection by Lydia Davis. | Publishers Weekly
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9 books that rethink illness narratives. | Electric Literature
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Publisher John Macrae III has died at 91. | The New York Times
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“Ephron owned her story, then and now.” Karen Heller revisits Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, 40 years later. | The Washington Post
Also on Lit Hub: Lynn Cullen on Dorothy Horstman, the woman behind the polio vaccine • An interview with Split/Lip Press • Read from Lorenza Pieri’s newly translated novel, Lesser Islands (tr. Peter Digiovanni and Donatella Melucci)