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

RIP ER Braithwaite: the Guyanese author of To Sir, With Love passes away at the age of 104 The Guardian
From Roxane Gay to Zora Neale Hurston, here are the literary women that inspire writers the most Lit Hub
The Alphabet Book With No Pictures: B.J. Novak writes a follow-up to his bestselling children's book, The Book With No Pictures The Los Angeles Times
Shirley Jackson: on the centenary of the horror author's birth, a discussion of Jackson's legacy Electric Literature
Violent suffering: what author Laurie Sheck learned about torment and illness in art from Dostoyevsky's The Idiot The Atlantic
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Siri Hustvedt's new book of essays explores "why we revere the intellect and distrust the body" The Washington Post
The New Yorker's favorite books from 2016: their extensive list of must-reads includes Mauro Javier Cardenas's The Revolutionaries Try Again and Lola Lafon's The Little Communist Who Never Smiled The New Yorker

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