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- Zack St. George investigates the wild scams of Australia’s snake venom swindlers. | Lit Hub History
- How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob Ferguson brought a fey kind of environmental liberation to America. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “During the years of his exile, Osip Mandelstam was deprived of the right to work for any publication or publishing house; translation works were cancelled, his writings went unpublished.” Similarities between Stalin’s terror and Trump’s terror. | Lit Hub History
- David Baerwald reflects on the writing lessons he learned from Hans Zimmer. | Lit Hub Craft
- “At every turn, Kathy’s voice – with the depth and texture of her experience – was already missing.” Joe Scott-Coe on Kathy Leissner, the first overlooked victim of the University of Texas Tower shooting. | lit hub biography
- “I could do some work right here, I shrugged; / I’ve done it before.” Read a poem by Franz Wright from the collection “Boardinghouse with No Visible Address” Ax in Blossom: Final Poems and Fragments. | lit hub poetry
- Rachel Aviv’s You will not be free from thisDaniel Mason’s people of the countryand david thompson sudden flicker of light convenience among all Best reviewed books of the week. | book marks
- “The next morning, Steven suffered a hangover during his graduate fiction workshop; three drinks a day had sometimes become a punishment over the years.” Read from Teddy Wayne’s new novel, au pair. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The trustees are unrestrained in making expedient but unwise choices because those who offer criticism and counter-proposals do not matter.” Greg Gonsalves on The higher education revolution we need. | Nation
- What does Sepp believe? the genius of john classen. | the new Yorker
- Rachel Aviv talks to Lucy McKeon about Relationship between parents and children And his new book, You Won’t Get Free From This: Stories of Mothers and Daughters. | broadcast
- The age of AI isn’t the first time automation has tried to invade classrooms, and It hasn’t gone well in the past. | mit press reader
- Abigail Susik investigates Andre Breton’s pessimism. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- hua su mark The past and future of Silicon Valley’s Highway 85: “There was celebration all over the road that day. I remember walking up the ramp and seeing the road stretching for miles.” | places
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