The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1894, Kate Chopin writes “The Story of an Hour,” which is published in the December 6 issue of Vogue as “The Dream of an Hour.”
- When is enough enough? Ryan Chapman on wants, needs, money, and time. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.” Julia Alvarez on falling in love with writing again. | Lit Hub Craft
- What does Lord Byron have in common with Che Guevara? “A revolutionary who loves poetry and a poet who loves revolution are not so dissimilar.” | Lit Hub History
- Paul Yamazaki of City Lights reflects on the joys of running an independent bookstore: “At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.” | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Where’s the best place to write? Rahul Mehta makes a compelling argument for public libraries. | Lit Hub Libraries
- Salman Rushdie’s Knife, Caoilinn Hughes’ The Alternatives, Caleb Carr’s My Beloved Monster, and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s An Unfinished Love Story all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Botany has a long history of not holding space for women, and even pushing them out when it becomes expedient to do so.” How Lydia Ernestine Becker was essential to–and then excluded from–the study of botany. | Lit Hub Science
- “I found your pictures by chance in a library archive. In one, you’re a girl in a gown.” Read from Nicolette Polek’s new novel, Bitter Water Opera. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Wish your workplace had a guillotine? Maybe you should try getting a job at the Sherman Fairchild Center for Book Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | The New York Times
- Journalists at the Long Beach Post are fighting union busting and wage theft in a media landscape that centers profit over good reporting. | Jacobin
- Comics writers, historians, and scholars remember the late comics seller and historian Robert Beerbohm. | The Comics Journal
- “It may well be the case that Taubes intends to disorient the reader; it is also possible that the effect arises from artistic indecision.” Huda Awan considers the work of Susan Taubes. | New Left Review
- Lucas Mann dives into the world of professionally Online Dads. | Esquire
- Theater artist Annie Dorsen talks artificial intelligence, language, and rebuilding a lost play by Aeschylus. | Public Books
