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TODAY: In 1812, Percy Shelley meets journalist and philosopher William Godwin. Two years later, he marries Godwin’s daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
- On this week’s Lit Hub Podcast a roundtable of booksellers discuss the (seemingly) sudden preponderance of romance bookstores. | Lit Hub Radio
- “As Haitians fled for their lives during the 1991 coup they were intercepted by the US Coast Guard and sent to Guantanamo, where they could be held indefinitely under US control.” Steven W. Thrasher on American xenophobia and imperialism. | Lit Hub Politics
- Kali Gross on slave owners’ sadism, the moral connotations of skin colors to europeans, and legalized assault. | Lit Hub History
- What does “show, don’t tell” mean when you’re drawing a memoir? Jesse Lee Kercheval on graphic narratives.| Lit Hub Craft
- Enzo Traverso on irresponsible journalism and the weaponization of antisemitism in the suppression of student protests. | Lit Hub Politics
- “In literary history, there are few constants like the writers’ feud. It doesn’t have to be that way.” Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the power of a writing partnership. | Lit Hub Craft
- Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message, and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Marijam Did considers the parallels between fine arts and games when it comes to creating political products and why activist games tend to fall short. | Lit Hub Art
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Put down that mince pie! Why British suffragettes went vegetarian for feminist resistance. | Lit Hub Food
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- “Tarot can be more than a tool for exploring and reflecting on the story of your life—the cards can pave the way to help you tell that story to readers.” How a deck of cards can offer magical tips for stuck memoirists and essayists. | Lit Hub Craft
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine have curated the best audiobooks for October. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Apparently, almost no one here at the hospital likes me. Until I met Inga, I’d never realized that.” Read from Yoko Tawada’s novel Suggested in the Stars, translated by Margaret Mitsutani. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Garrett Bradley interviews an anonymous adherent of Parable of the Sower’s fictional faith, Earthseed. | Artforum
- Angelo Hernandez Sias on “Trying to Establish Myself as a Young Man.” | n+1
- Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Walker Mimms on poet and visual artist Ted Joans, who “combined this cohort’s angst, machismo, and taste for absurdism into a rollicking Black beatnikery.” | New York Review of Books
- How good of a writer is ChatGPT? It might depend on how it’s being used to write. | The New Yorker
- Rachel Fraser considers Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins and argues against intellectual humility. | Aeon
