TODAY: In 1672, Anne Bradstreet, the first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published, dies.
- “So few people have written about Black life with the kind of attention that he did. So few writers could capture the various sides of Blackness as he could.” Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques on reading Randall Kenan · Alane Mason on the joy of editing Randall Kenan. | Lit Hub
- “The question of the energy commons is fundamental to the fight for a collective future.” Ashley Dawson on the endless commoditizing of American energy. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “Is the love that leads one to translate the wrong kind of love?” Anne Posten on what it’s like to fall hard for a text. | Lit Hub Translation
- Finding strange magic and unlikely love during the Vietnam War: Lan Cao on the beginning of her American life. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Spending a night alone in Mount Everest’s death zone: Jennifer Hull on one mountaineer’s perilous trip. | Lit Hub Sports
- “Television, like film, in the 1990s and 2000s became a critical site where the meaning of Blackness and its relationship to history was debated.” Mary Rizzo considers Baltimore on the small screen. | Lit Hub TV
- In a family of readers, packing up my late father’s library was hardest of all: Seth Greenland on making hard decisions and giving in to sentiment. | Lit Hub Memoir
- WATCH: A star-studded reading of Blake Butler’s Alice Knott featuring Laura Van Den Berg, Amber Tamblyn, John Darnielle, Catherine Lacey, and more · Singer-songwriter Erika Ender on vulnerability and hope in tough times, for the Mighty SONG Writers series. | Lit Hub TV
- “I felt like I belonged there, but of course I didn’t, and I just needed to be reminded of that to see it completely differently.” Read a profile of Rumaan Alam. | Vulture
- An oral history of the first National Book Festival. | The Washington Post
- The Justice Department issued a subpoena to Simon & Schuster to investigate whether John Bolton mishandled classified information while writing The Room Where It Happened. | CNBC
- On teaching ecopoetry in a time of climate change. | The Georgia Review
- “What people are looking for, I think—people who reflect them. Most of us are kind of bumbling, right?” Walter Mosley discusses his new collection, The Awkward Black Man. | Electric Literature
- Bibliographies, scientific treatises, memoirs: What were the most popular books in the Ottoman Empire? | Daily Sabah
- “It has done incalculable good for me to weep and breathe and feel held by a group of people who know the same fear in their bones.” Aisha Sabatini Sloan on doulas and a community of care. | The Paris Review
- “The more reporting I did, the harder it was to sit at a distance from the material.” Chana Joffe-Walt on producing stories on race and education. | Guernica