Today: In 1893, Guy de Maupassant died.
- Michael Dirda defends moby-dick As the ultimate American novel. | lit hub criticism
- Why Plato’s “Mythical” Dinner Party seminar Is really about love. | Lit Hub Craft
- How medieval scribes engaged in writing as a spiritual practice (and preserved culture and history in the process). | Lit Hub History
- On the unexpected gift of sharing a debut at an older age: “When my manuscript wasn’t selected as the winner, I realized that getting a collection published can take longer than I expected. And oh my god, did I ever do that.” | Lit Hub Memoirs
- This week in literary history, American Red Cross volunteer Ernest Hemingway was hit by an Austrian mortar shell while delivering chocolates to soldiers on the Italian front. | Lit Hub History
- Joshua Thermidor reflects on how Etel Adnan influenced a generation of poets. | lit hub criticism
- “One has to be willing to humiliate oneself to yodel, there is no spiritual bypass.” Valerie Hsiung explores Yodel’s poetics. | Lit Hub Craft
- “You have long arms for your height. Everyone tells you so. Good for hugs in pickup basketball and pulling down rebounds.” Read “Catcher” from Mac Crane’s first story collection, Employee. | Lit Hub Fiction
- David E. Nye believes The optical illusion of American progress. | mit press reader
- Jeff Goodwin Explores oft-erased marxism Web Du Bois. | Jacobean
- When Rosemary Tonks rejected her own writing (After converting to Christianity). | New York Review of Books
- Hank Kennedy read two books recently Graphic biographies of Jane Austen. | comics journal
- have you heard? AI is bad for business. | 404 media
- Kelly Daly rereads Mark Twain As the world burns. | etc magazine
