TODAY: In 1893, English poet and soldier Wilfred Owen is born.
- “It’s possible much of what I’ve written in recent years will wind up being published or produced posthumously… or not at all.” Jay Neugeboren reflects on mortality and posthumous publishing, after 60 years of the writing life. | Lit Hub
- After writing a novel about two men isolated at sea, Paul Lynch experiences his own period after isolation, during pandemic lockdown in Ireland. | Lit Hub
- Jazz clubs, political tumult, and secret societies: how Cairo became a cosmopolitan destination in the interwar 1920s. | Lit Hub History
- “Only a few mouse clicks away loomed the possibility of a city able to get by without dirty factories and less reliance on Wall Street.” Thomas Dyja considers how the early internet transformed New York City. | Lit Hub Tech
- “It is simply easier to endure pain when I remember Sarrazin went through the same.” Cora Womble-Miesner on Albertine Sarrazin’s semi-autobiographical novel, Astragal. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Why New York City has damn delicious tap water—and how its ownership model can apply to saving the planet. | Lit Hub
- James Parker on Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth biography, Brandon Taylor on Michael Lowenthal’s Sex with Strangers, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read this Week. | Book Marks
- Nadine Matheson asks, why are we still so obsessed with psychopaths? | CrimeReads
- “The world is watching, and the translator is no longer invisible.” Translators weigh in on the Amanda Gorman controversy. | Asymptote
- Kaitlyn Greenidge reflects on the legacy of love and devotion in her family. | Harper’s Bazaar
- “No feminist ever said the women’s movement was about women ‘having it all.’” On Susan Faludi’s Backlash at 30. | JSTOR Daily
- “However difficult my story might be, if I tell it, and it emboldens another writer to tell the truth about her life, then I have done my job.” Emily Rapp Black on writing about grief. | LARB
- Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Elizabeth Taylor on Zachary D. Carter’s The Price of Peace. | Lit Hub
- A. K. Blakemore points out matriarchs from fiction that subvert stereotypical narratives about women and power. | The Guardian
- “I have a lot of unresolved issues with Chicago. And to me, it’s a reconciliation, a healing.” Sandra Cisneros on winning the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award and the legacy of The House on Mango Street. | WBEZ
- “Why do we keep hearing the same names again and again in the canon?” Lesley Chow discusses her new book and women of color in music. | The Creative Independent
Also on Lit Hub: Ruby Brunton on the significance of women writing about themselves • Elizabeth Brooks on the lure of historic literary homes • Read from Diane Wilson’s debut novel, The Seed Keeper