TODAY: In 1903, Clare Turlay Newberry, children’s book author famous for her illustrations of cats, is born. All but 3 of her books were about cats!
- Emily Temple in defense of worldbuilding. | Literary Hub
- The time Bruce Springsteen controlled 13,000 people with just his eyes. | Literary Hub
- Malcolm Mackay lives in the golden age of Scottish crime fiction. | Literary Hub
- Rarely seen literary treasures from the Library of Congress, from Thomas Jefferson to James Baldwin. | Literary Hub
- On the science of old book smells—and why Penguin paperbacks smell like “fresh rusk biscuits.” | The Guardian
- Snow White, a new dramatic adaptation of a 1967 Donald Bartheleme story, is coming to Houston. | The New Yorker
- There are many ways to sing the song of home: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib on Mari Evans and what it means to be a black poet in the Midwest. | The Baffler
- “I think most writers do not love being on the side of power.” Elif Batuman on the power imbalance inherent to travel writing. | Granta
- From Black Easter to The Devil’s Bride, a roundup of Satan-centric pulp novels. | Tor
- “This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization that difference is normal.” An excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. | Signature
- Jack Kerouac fans in St. Petersburg, Florida, are one step closer to buying the home where he died and turning it into a museum. | Smithsonian Magazine
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