Today: In 1923, Nella Larson graduated from the NYPL’s library school and became the first professionally trained black librarian.
- How Jane Austen destroyed the romance she had mastered by writing it emma. | lit hub criticism
- Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways in which women writers balance creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft
- Why do our public institutions struggle with litter? “Waste management as we know it has evolved largely in opposition to municipal practices.” | Lit Hub Politics
- How swimming helped Kate Washington deal with self-discovery and caregiving fatigue. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- Emmeline Atwood explores parallels between diving and creativity. | Lit Hub Craft
- Read a poem by Victoria Chang from the collection “Hemlock, 1956” tree of wisdom: “A wooden door in front of everything. A door / on my country. A door at the lake. My poems.” | lit hub poetry
- “They were sleeping for the next hour when Wilma crawled back to the fire.” Read from Jason Stone’s debut novel, beauty of yesteryear. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Although not much of what he writes is very interesting, Nazir himself is shaping up to be a strangely fascinating character.” laura miller on Zameer Nazir defends his alleged AI-generated story. | slate
- Stephen Mihm explores “the deadly revelation in the middle of the sermon” which inspired Melvil Dewey to create the Dewey Decimal System. | smithsonian magazine
- Why isn’t copyright enough? To protect writers from having their work stolen by AI. | dial
- Publisher Bona Books went broke What happened when they were betrayed by AI (And when it comes to AI, small presses are hit hard). | bona books
- Will McDonald examines myths, monsters and gods Short stories from Iceland and Sweden. | baffler
- On craft, critics and Fierce battles in letters to the editor. | comics journal
