TODAY: In 1927, Theodor Geisel publishes his first cartoon as Dr. Seuss.
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“He was known as the improbably well-informed Yankee who had a preternatural ability to sniff out genius—and bring it to the United States.” On John Quinn, the man who introduced America to Pablo Picasso. | Lit Hub Art
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“Like life, writing forces a series of choices that bring you to an ending.” Diksha Bashu contemplates the personalization of craft. | Lit Hub Craft
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Off the coast of Kodiak Island, Doreen Cunningham searches for solace among nature’s gentlest of giants. | Lit Hub Nature
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“As he assembles his cast of heroes, he writes of the swimmer as protagonist: swimmers that have grown heroic in their own heads.” Daniel Shailer in praise of Charles Sprawson’s Haunts of the Black Masseur, the greatest book about swimming ever written. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea, CJ Hauser’s The Crane Wife, and Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ The Man Who Could Move Clouds all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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Good news: we’re in an indie bookstore renaissance. “As the number of stores has grown, the book selling business—traditionally overwhelmingly white—has also become much more diverse.” | The New York Times
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Elif Batuman, Rebecca Solnit, and more writers respond to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. | London Review of Books
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A public library in Ukraine is mailing Ukrainian books to people forced to leave the country due to Russia’s invasion. | Kyiv Post
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Jessica Winter writes about the continuum of LGBTQ children’s books, and the grave threats they face in much of the country. | The New Yorker
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“I believe if we look hard enough, we can find glimpses of him, at times in the most surprising of places.” Cornelia Powers finds echoes of C.S. Lewis in the work of Sally Rooney. | Image
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“Perhaps we love Attenborough because he is an advocate and practitioner of a special way of seeing and relating.” Rachel Riederer on David Attenborough and the lost art of looking at nature. | Dissent
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This one’s for the overthinkers: from Sheila Heti to Sarah Manguso, Nada Alic recommends nine books about women stuck in their own minds. | Electric Lit
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Imani Perry on Charles Chestnutt, George Packer on Frederick Douglass, Sophie Gilbert on Sylvia Plath, and more contemporary writers reflecting on voices from The Atlantic’s archives. | The Atlantic
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Wyatt Mason sits down with Akhil Sharma, the author who spent 4,000 hours revising his first novel, two decades later. | The New York Times Magazine
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Sarah Neilson lists some of the most noteworthy recent books by Indigenous authors. | Shondaland
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“Animals aren’t interesting just when they are better than us. Things that are simpler than us are actually deeply fascinating too.” Ed Yong and Alice Wong discuss ableism in science, sensory biology, and cultivating wonder. | Orion
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Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens is still wanted for questioning in the 1995 death of a poacher in Zambia. | Vulture
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Lincoln Michel makes the case for the speculative epic as the literary genre for our current reality. | Esquire
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Martine Powers examines the sudden popularity of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. | The Washington Post
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New exhibitions are spotlighting the women behind Ulysses. | Smithsonian
Also on Lit Hub:
In praise of poet voice • Why we need more single women in politics • How Josephine Baker transformed from dancer to spy • When Anonymous focused its digital wrath on the Steubenville rape case • Taking refuge in the pixelated pastoral of The Legend of Zelda • “The moon is a lesbian, goes the meme, and it stands to reason that the ocean is a lesbian too.” • Antonia Angress on muses, longing, and being seen • Why culture shock can be a powerful tool for SFF storytellers • What Chris Belcher is reading now and next • Ruby Tandoh on turning meals into memories • Erika L. Sánchez on writing the characters she wanted to read • Amy B. Reid on translating Mutt-Lon’s The Blunder • Dispatches from the childhood of a future pilot • How rummaging through Oliver Stone’s home office allowed a young Rafael Agustín to dream big • Can our capacity for empathy save us from ourselves? • On the Fleabag-ification of Persuasion’s Anne Elliot • Why degrowth is imperative for a globally just future • How systemic racism is downplayed and dismissed in the classroom