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Today: In 1900, Henry Spencer Ashby, author, bibliographer, and renowned collector of erotic literature, died.
- How is the fascination with Sylvia Plath similar to the fascination with true crime? Sarai Walker explores obsession, possession, and Plath worship. | lit hub biography
- “Even as a child, I’m in awe of mountains.” Emily Hackney traces the rise and fall of the Appalachian coal industry as well as family history. | Lit Hub History
- How psychedelics went from a countercultural target of the war on drugs to the next big thing in industrial wellness. | Lit Hub Health
- Imogen Willetts traces the history and rebellion of a good night. | Lit Hub History
- People in the Middle Ages had some interesting ideas about healthy eating. | Lit Hub Food
- The impact of colonization and westward expansion on California abalone, sea otters, and other marine wildlife. | lit hub nature
- “They’re running again. Deep into the Wisconsin forests, through the gaps of spruce and pines. Along the golden jog of the creek.” Read from Thao Thai’s new novel, Seekers of Deer Creek. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The rot is clearly visible in the entire system of governance from top to bottom and it smells like a rotting corpse.” Arundhati Roy writes a dispatch on Delhi’s student-led protests. | equator
- Elon Musk is threatening to release his own “historically accurate” (lol) version odysseyTheir AI platform Grok is built by Imagine. | Conversation
- “The paradox of psychoanalysis is that it asks us to consider symptoms not only as illnesses and failings, but also, in a positive sense, as distorted and covert forms of freedom.” On Kafka, Freud, and rebellion. | pass tout
- Why was Anne Scott translated recently? supper star It is reminiscent of pre-Internet nightlife at a moment when “these days, debauchery is held to great expectations.” | Nation
- How Jean Marc Ah-Sen Overcame Divorce, one old cartoon at a time. | comics journal
- What are the big booksellers doing to make the deal? With AI-generated books? | the new York Times
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