TODAY: In 1847, Emily Brontë‘s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey are published in a three-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell respectively in London by T. C. Newby.
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To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. | Lit Hub
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Shaan Sachdev pens an ode to Chandler Bing, “one of sarcasm’s most effective global exporters.” | Lit Hub Film & TV
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What Rachel Zucker is reading now and next, from Mary Ruefle’s The Book to Abigail Thomas’s Safekeeping. | Lit Hub Annotated Nightstand
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“I had not understood that giving and taking care, living carefully and caring fully could make me more myself.” Amanda Parrish Morgan on Wintering and the lessons of a long pandemic season. | Lit Hub Memoir
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What will Spotify do to books? | The New York Times
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“You can get away with anything if it’s funny enough.” Ed Park talks to Lincoln Michel about his book Same Bed Different Dreams. | Counter Craft
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So you want to start your own media company: Kelsey McKinney and Aleksander Chan offer some tricks of the trade. | The Nation
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“The Biden books, with striking consistency, evince a pride in how much can be left unsaid.” Jessica Winter reads four Biden memoirs and considers Hunter Biden and the undercurrent of silence. | The New Yorker
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Lauren Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, will open The Lynx bookstore in Gainesville, Florida next year. | Publishers Lunch
Also on Lit Hub: A reading list of NYC books that capture the city’s many sides • A poem by Taha Muhammad Ali • Heather Cleary on the pleasures of translating the unfamiliar