Literature

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1953, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, is published.   Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s dystopian sci-fi novel, The Last Man: “As a man, she would have cut a swathe through nineteenth-century English intellectual life and paid no price for living with her future
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1818, John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge go for a walk on Hampstead Heath. In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked about “a thousand things.”  “The tabloid-style reporting by writers of the early twentieth century is consistent with a long
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Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott Anne Lamott is a beloved author, and this is her 20th book! It’s easy to know why it’s popular today: Somehow came out yesterday. Each chapter examines different kinds of love and how it changes our lives: “Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1966, Evelyn Waugh dies after attending an upsettingly modern Easter Sunday Mass.   Are you an American curious about queer Canada’s past? Rose Sutherland recommends a crash course in historical fiction, including Suzette Meyr, Heather O’Neil, Loghan Paylor, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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