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TODAY: In 1856, Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
- “It flattens all queer art into the nebulous category of ‘pornography.’” Project 2025 is going to have devastating effects on our freedom to read the books we want to read. | Lit Hub Politics
- Leanne Ogasawara makes the case for why writers and translators should meditate. | Lit Hub Craft
- “But I am disappointed: you had promised me you would ask me for some books, some illustrated ones, some Ruskin?” A selection of Proust’s letters, translated by Lydia Davis. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Glory Edim recounts how Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry helped her understand being Black in the south. | Lit Hub Libraries
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- How a sea bean, the smallest gift of ocean vegetation, makes its long, briny journey to germination. | Lit Hub Nature
- Armin Schmitt on Earth’s millennia-long history of reoccurring cataclysms (and how a mass extinction event paved the way for dinosaurs). | Lit Hub Science
- Adam Iscoe talks to Willie Nelson about his upcoming cannabis cookbook. | The New Yorker
- “Because Laguna Beach drew inspiration from the grammars of cinema rather than earlier reality television, it does away with key conventions that privilege plot and character development over aesthetics.” Revisiting a reality phenomenon 20 years later. | Public Books
- Sarah Bair dives into the personal-pan-pizza-full history of Book It! | The New York Times
- “The civilians in Gaza are not just being filmed; they are filming themselves. In this way, Americans see and hear from those on the infernal end of their own government’s weapons.” Zoë Hu on the evolution of the American war correspondent. | The Baffler
- Gideon Jacobs examines the uncanny valley of American politics. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Are kids reading less? In the UK, the answer might be yes. | The Guardian
