TODAY: In 1859, Charles Darwin sends his publishers the first three chapters of On the Origin of Species.
- Siri Hustvedt, Helen Macdonald, A. L. Kennedy and others on the poems that make them cry. | Literary Hub
- On reissuing Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, ten years later. | Literary Hub
- How to prescribe poems for the sick, the dying, the grief-stricken. | Literary Hub
- Write urgently, write patiently, write: An interview with the finalists for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction. | PEN America
- “I want to say something stronger than that: not just that cruising made me a poet, but also that cruising itself is a kind of poetry.” Garth Greenwell on the poetics of cruising. | BuzzFeed Books
- On the activism, anger, and artistry of feminist poet Adrienne Rich. | The New Republic
- Beyond the “no-one-reads-anymore hysteria, the lack of supportive careers for apprenticing writers, the MFA deathtrap:” Jessa Crispin on the crisis of book criticism. | Copper Nickel
- “Such categorization of an entire community as an insidious poison is a move we have seen before.” Teju Cole on Charlie Hebdo’s Islamophobic editorial. | Brittle Paper
- On the contributions to publishing of Blanche Knopf, the Mother of Borzoi. | The New Yorker
- “What I know of the Atlantic is red. What I know of its wetness is blood.” An essay by Divya Victor. | Harriet
- In which Susan Sarandon is interviewed by her “dream guy,” George Saunders. | Interview Magazine
Also on Literary Hub: Thomas Piketty on the financial crisis, as it happened · Books making news this week: immigrants, westerns, and war crimes · The trial: from Maggie Nelson’s newly reissued The Red Parts
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