Good evening readers. Here's today's round-up of must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

An interview with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Here I Am, ten years after the release of his acclaimed debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. (BuzzFeed Books)
What Elena Ferrante’s latest book, Frantumaglia can tell us about her unfulfilled and uncertain quest for anonymity. (The New York Times) ·
The Top Five Contenders for the Nobel Prize in Literature: expert speculators favor these writers for tomorrow morning’s big reveal. (Lit Hub)
An exploration of the mournfulness and hopefulness of singledom today in Emily Witt’s new book, Future Sex. (Slate)
Preview Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro feminist re-imagining of New York City in Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, out October 19th, celebrating the remarkable women who have shaped the city from the beginning. (The New Yorker)
Essays by Robert Gluck: “In writing about sex, desire, and the body, New Narrative approached performance art…the book becomes social practice that is lived.” (3AM Magazine)
Judging books by their covers may actually work: how #bookstagram and stylized book covers can help publishers. (The Wire)

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