TODAY: In 1836, Charles Dickens marries Catherine Hogarth at St Luke’s Church in London.
- THESE TIMES: An improbably true parable for the pandemic age: Paul Auster on the wolves of Stanislav · What does your go-to quarantine read say about you? · Here’s how you can help out during the coronavirus pandemic. ON THE VBC: Katy Simpson Smith talks to Maris Kreizman about the lessons of history · Elizabeth Moen plays a set on Mission Creek Underground · Episode 2 of The Antibody Reading Series. | Life in a Pandemic
- Finding, hiding, hoarding: Nick Flynn on making collages from found ephemera. | Lit Hub Art
- Phil Christman on false frontiers and the irresistible dream of a prepper’s life. | Lit Hub Politics
- “This is a country, I will learn, that is spectacular at doing nothing.” Jessica Anthony on the writing conference that ended in a Russian police station. | Lit Hub
- “Oh Wonder.” A poem from Traci Brimhall’s new collection, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod. | Lit Hub
- Women in war: on great correspondents past and present, from WWI to today’s citizen journalists. | Lit Hub History
- Dwight Garner on Woody Allen’s mouth-breathing memoir, Francine Prose on Kevin Barry’s Beckettian crime tale, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- “He was talking about resistance, and about how people can come together in a situation to resist.” On teaching Camus’ The Plague (and other literary classics) during a pandemic. | NPR
- “Was Allen’s manuscript edited, and copyedited, and read by corporate lawyers?” An investigation into Woody Allen’s (secrecy-shrouded) memoir. | The New Republic
- What is it like to be a novelist with “no mind’s eye”? | The Guardian
- These stories about brave, adventurous kids might strike a chord with children who are bored at home. | New Statesman
- Feeling uncertain and overwhelmed? One thing we can all do: keep supporting independent bookstores. | Chicago Tribune
- A comedic imagining of Shakespeare’s own “quarantine journal.” | The New Yorker
- A Wuhan-based writer, Wang Fang, calls the Chinese government out. | Wall Street Journal
Also on Lit Hub: Foxed, fuddled, swallowed a hare, and other words for “drunk” • On surveillance capitalism and the internet of things • Read a story by Christine Schutt from the current issue of NOON.
