TODAY: In 1908, Henry Chadwick, often called the “Father of Baseball” for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game, dies.
- Allen Ginsberg on the origins of the term “Beat Generation.” | Literary Hub
- Life and literacy in North Memphis: the story of the women who taught me to read. | Literary Hub
- BREAKING: Dead male writers and the pet cats who loved them. You will probably guess what happens next. | Literary Hub
- Our favorite fictional drugs, ranked (yes, yes, happy 4/20). | Literary Hub
- How much drawl is too much twang? On going South with accents on audiobooks. | Literary Hub
- “I am not a fan of Stoner”: Bluntly refusing to inhale the chronic misogyny in John Williams’ 1965 novel. | Book Marks
- “When I showed the Milwaukee Police Department how every four days a landlord gets a letter that’s domestic violence-related, and that over 80 percent of the time they evict the tenant, they were shocked.” An interview with Evicted author Matthew Desmond. | VICE
- For $200/hour, you too can rent the bedroom where Emily Dickinson composed her entire life’s work. | Jezebel
- “Cities are not only what they appear to be, but also what they are subjected to: memory, history, desire, forgetfulness, dreams.” Madeleine Thien on Invisible Cities and the continued occupation of Palestinian territories. | Granta
- “I am someone for whom poetry is a site for meaning making and a place to go to understand my position in the world around me, as well as my position in my own cosmological station.” An interview with Kaveh Akbar. | Slice Magazine
- “If the resistance requires a subscription, it shouldn’t be to the past.” The New Inquiry has relaunched. | The New Inquiry
- “I wanted to write a love poem / the most impossible thing / and I did / and it wasn’t hard” A new poem by Leopoldine Core. | New York Tyrant
- Shockingly, the illustrated book Communism for Kids has drawn the ire of conservative media outlets like OneNewsNow and Breitbart News. | Publishers Weekly
Also on Lit Hub: The best crime reading series in the USA? · Drawing activism and outrage before Black Lives Matter, one panel at a time · From the late Rhoda Lerman’s novel, God’s Ear.
