Morning Bites: Kafka Going Public, The Curse Of T.R., Victor LaValle’s Orgy Analogy, Ferlinghetti’s No Thanks, And More

The Kafka archive is going public.

Keith Gessen on the competitive friendship between Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis.

“It’s an orgy of . . . I’m going to quit with this analogy now.” – Victor LaValle talks blending genres at Granta.

Salman Rushdie talks to Richard Wolinsky at Guernica.

Book Riot takes a look at the homes of classic authors.

Why Lawrence Ferlinghetti turned down the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian division of PEN.

Did Theodore Roosevelt curse the Washington Nationals?

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