TODAY: In 1886, Rex Stout, American writer of detective fiction, is born.  

• The best audiobooks of 2023—or, 108.5 hours of entertainment for your holiday travels. | Lit Hub

• Here’s the Literary Film & TV You Should Stream in December, featuring a new season of Slow Horses, the film adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, and more. | Lit Hub Film & TV

• Beth Kephart considers the observational lens: “It is how, in other words, we yield our looking to the reader beside us.” | Lit Hub Craft

• “Lexi Freiman shitposts from the bottom of her heart.” 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

• Another dispatch from the stupidest timeline: Conservatives are boycotting Froot Loops for creating a library of diverse children’s books online. | them

• “At its best, literary translation is the strongest antidote imaginable to Anglophone cultural hegemony. At its worst it is just the swapping of one superpower for another.” Ida Lødemel Tvedt on Norway’s lit scene. | The Dial

• Rowan Wilson on a year spent in the queer archives at Cologne. | The Point

• “I don’t know a character until I know how they eat in public, what they cook, what they would serve a guest, and what they eat when they’re alone.” Kate Christensen talks to Bethanne Patrick about food and writing. | LA Times

• Want to touch a lion’s pelt? Visit the Nature-to-You Loan Library at the San Diego Natural History Museum! | Atlas Obscura