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TODAY: In 1934, N. Scott Momaday is born.
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“I was still reporting to my father, the things I had read and all that I had remembered.” Amitava Kumar on family, loss, and resonating with the words of other writers. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Even in the worst of times, humans have a way of coming together to lighten the load and provide hope for a better future.” Maurice Carlos Ruffin on community and solidarity in stories of marginalization. | Lit Hub Craft
- Robert Moor examines Matthew J.C. Clark’s Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences and the rise of autojournalism. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Martin MacInnes about research, influences, and reading Virginia Woolf as science fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Tommy Orange, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Emily Howes, and more. These new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What can birds teach us about how to live? According to Trish O’Kane, a lot. | Lit Hub Nature
- “These kinds of events were called battles, then later—sometimes—massacres, in America’s longest war. More years at war with Indians than as a nation. Three hundred and thirteen.” Read from Tommy Orange’s new novel, Wandering Stars. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Anthony Lane considers the works of Lord Byron two centuries after the poet’s death. | The New Yorker
- On “bookshelf wealth” as a design trend and what it says about readers, wealth, and performance. | The Guardian
- “The pressures of migration mean that smaller languages will have to survive in urban environments if they are going to survive at all.” Ross Perlin on New York City’s deep linguistic diversity. | The Atlantic
- Why was Mark Twain so obsessed with Joan of Arc? | JSTOR Daily
- “The demons of academic philosophy come in familiar guises: exclusivity, hegemony and investment in the myth of individual genius.” On folktales and philosophy. | Aeon
- An interview with Harry Nordlinger: “I was always into horror, although I was also very scared. I was a very scared kid. Like, I would not be able to sleep at night.” | The Comics Journal
