Today: Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in 1861.
- Natalie Adler and Sarah Shulman talk about the history of AIDS and interrogating agents with the phrase “dam about town”. | Lit Hub in conversation
- Why readers still fall in love with Mr. DarcyEven after 200 years. | lit hub criticism
- “What I could not say, Satrapi finally said for me.” What Marjane Satrapi means to Naz Riahi as an exiled Iranian. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- beep beep! Brenda C. Wilson remembers the bookmobile that sparked her love of reading. | Lit Hub Memoirs
- Why was one of the best American backpacking books written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat poet? | lit hub criticism
- As America turns 250, here are excerpts from American literary history from the Lit Hub archives. | Lit Hub History
- “By Friday, I was back at Margaret’s house and there was some sourness between us. I found that she was very pleased with herself.” Read from Sonia Feldman’s debut novel, girls girl. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Viet Thanh Nguyen considers America “”The dual cycle of beauty and cruelty, a fabric that connects our present to our past.” | Nation
- Everyone is quite excited: In defense of sports clichés. | paris review
- “It seems obvious to me that putting on 40 different things every night is not attractive. Why would that be good?” Caroline Reilly and Megan Nolan discuss Patrick Bateman’s aesthetic legacy. | dirt
- Why in Trump’s America, now you can find out 30 years jail for possessing zine. | blocking
- Diana Bellonby admits The Strangeness of Vernon Lee’s Ghost Stories. | Los Angeles Review of Books
