TODAY: In 1616, Nicolaus Copernicus’s book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books, 73 years after it was first published.
- “Every time we step away from our book there’s the danger we’re going to lose track of one or more of these threads, and the project will lose its energy, its will to exist.” Kate Hope Day on how to keep a novel alive. | Lit Hub Craft
- INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIE PRESS: Melville House’s Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians talk worthwhile risks, the choices they wouldn’t make twice, and adjusting to change in the publishing industry. | Lit Hub
- Scenes from a future planet, the soul of Black performance, a floundering small-town hospital: here are the new and noteworthy nonfiction titles to look for in March. | Lit Hub
- “Wells did not hope to reflect public opinion—she meant to shape it.” Alex Tresniowski on Ida B. Wells’ mission to bring to light the truth of lynching. | Lit Hub History
- The publisher with a dozen aliases: Alan M. Klein digs into the eccentric, shape-shifting “Ronald Lane Latimer,” who relaunched the poetic careers of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. | Lit Hub
- Alexandra Andrews looks at the great, mixed-up literary tradition of impostors and doppelgängers. | CrimeReads
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, and Stephen King’s Later all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Michael Gonzales on the massive life and tragic death of soul superhero King Curtis. | Wax Poetics
- “Walking around my city, lines from The Plague kept appearing, like the fat buds of flowers, the cold, golden light, the lukewarm wind.” On Camus, the pandemic, and weather. | The Point
- Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Diego Báez on Danez Smith’s Homie. | Lit Hub
- “A new generation of artists, both rappers and poets, are consciously forging closer kinship between the genres.” On the connection between today’s rap stars and poets. | T Magazine
- Welp, it appears Jordan Peterson has returned. | The Atlantic
- Kliph Nesteroff recommends five books for understanding Native American comedy, featuring Ben Yagoda and Arthur Manuel. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Tracing the many people, across gender, race, class and sexuality who have been harmed by white feminism and its ‘empowerment’ means archival research.” Koa Beck on the history of mainstream feminism. | The Guardian
- Deborah Eisenberg considers the work, and life, of Tove Ditlevsen. | NYRB
- “Black women writers don’t have to write to the white male gaze in the art we create.” Tamara Winfrey-Harris and Deesha Philyaw discuss the evolution of Black women’s stories. | Bitch Media
Also on Lit Hub: Olivia Campbell on the long history of silencing woman in science • How the trillion-dollar processed food industry manipulates our instinctual desires • Read from Megan Nolan’s debut novel, Acts of Desperation