TODAY: In 1885, Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch is born.
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“A hypnagogic horror show.” Brian Dillon on migraines and scotoma, and trying to describe the geometry of blind spots. | Lit Hub Health
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David Sexton considers Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: “What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal, that our time is limited, death inescapable.” | Lit Hub Criticism
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“I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“White women are not just responsible for literally perpetuating the white race; white mothers are responsible for instilling white supremacist ideology in their children.” When QAnon meets momfluencer culture. | Lit Hub Politics
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Dennis Lehane’s Small Mercies, Claire Dederer’s Monsters, Emily Henry’s Happy Place, and Lucinda Williams’s Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Weeks. | Book Marks
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Edgar Award nominees weigh in on the state of crime fiction and offer writing advice. | CrimeReads
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“Choose a few titles from the growing list of banned books.” Judy Blume shares her must-reads. | The New York Times
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Why 1969’s Army of Shadows—based on the book by Joseph Kessel—is the best spy movie of all time. | Collider
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Delia Owens’s journey to help poachers find a better line of work. | The Washington Post
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Libraries devastated by the war in Ukraine are removing their Russian literature. | New York Review of Books
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What the “hurried” writing on the waterlogged pages of Toni Morrison’s diaries reveal at Princeton’s archival exhibition | The Atlantic
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The London Book Fair brought with it a new award for first-time novelists over 50. | The Guardian
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Matthew Perry will be self-editing Keanu out of his memoir. | Rolling Stone
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Abigail Covington on the new battleground over what kids and teens should be reading: the public library. | Esquire
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“I like that [the concept of] backspace was originally just that—a space going backward.” On writing a history of the keyboard. | MIT Technology Review
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“Cultural disintegration.” Readers react to Christian Lorentzen’s lament for Bookforum. | The Washington Post
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“I’m like, This is literary shit going on here.” Read a profile of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. | Vulture
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Lyz Lenz goes behind the scenes of that Tucker Carlson profile. | Men Yell At Me
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On Norman Mailer, whose letters “reveal a megalomaniacally ambitious young man congenitally prone to embellishment, unsound theorizing, and self-aggrandizing roleplay.” | The Baffler
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Tajja Isen on the Internet Archive Lawsuit, book bans, library budget cutbacks, and labor issues at major publishing houses. | The Walrus
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New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates. | The New Yorker
Also on Lit Hub:
Julie Buntin on the uncanny omniscience of Judy Blume • Lauren Groff on this year’s winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction • Lucinda Williams recalls the turbulence of growing up with a sick mother • Read “Equinox ’75,” a poem by Ursula Le Guin • Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the divided mother • Smuggling The Literary Guide to the Bible into the psych ward • Ten screen adaptations much, much worse than the books they’re based on • The birth of Pornhub • How knowledge of the natural world can save lives • Sarah Cypher on Turkish cats • Unpacking anti-fat bias in youth sports • James Canton on finding the sublime in solitude • Shubha Sunder on writing between India and Boston • The problem with gender-reversed teen sex comedies • Happy indie bookstore day! Here are ten of our favorites.