TODAY: In 1942, Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (who published as L. M. Montgomery) and was a best known for writing the Anne of Green Gables series, dies.
- 365 books to start your climate change library: fiction and poetry edition. | Lit Hub
- “Street View functioned a bit like headlights—it narrowed my focus in a way I that needed for the novel to move forward.” Wandering the Arctic Circle (on Google Maps). | Lit Hub
- Moving back to West Virginia, in fiction and in life: Mesha Maren returns home in Sugar Run. | Lit Hub
- The improbable history of baseball’s weirdest pitch. | Lit Hub
- “Books aren’t just for reading; they’re also for having.” Saying goodbye to a beloved local bookstore. | Lit Hub
- The lessons of recording a half-century’s worth of reading (read more women, for one). | Lit Hub
- “The default way of thinking about this long, complex era is to assume it all looked like the cover of a heavy metal album.” Shedding light on the “Dark Ages.” | Lit Hub
- Ahead of the Edgar Awards this Thursday, 20+ nominees come together for a roundtable discussion on the state of mystery and crime fiction. | CrimeReads
- This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Amy Brady on Rita Indiana, Rachel Carson, and the literature of climate change. | Book Marks
- Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat has won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. | Book Marks
- Do the climate catastrophe books of Nathaniel Rich and David Wallace-Wells go far enough in condemning fossil fuel industry lobbyists? Wen Stephenson makes a case. | The Baffler
- “The novelist has to make the way by going.” Even when she’s going for 17 years. Elizabeth Cook on the merits of writing slowly. | Granta
- Is the energy and lyricism of early 20th-century sports columns a “lost” art? | The Atlantic
- “He had a very good sense of what he wanted to do, what he wanted to stand for, what he wouldn’t stand for.” Daniel Halpern on editing (and knowing) Anthony Bourdain. | Grub Street
- The Tolkien estate has disavowed the new Tolkien biopic; people will probably go see it anyway. | The Guardian
- “Infectious disease blows apart our assumptions about insularity.” Eula Biss on vaccinations (and the “vaccine hesitant”). | The Cut
- We have George Clooney to thank for the upcoming Catch-22 adaptation. | Vanity Fair
- “When my wife died, my life was thrown out of time. My past didn’t seem to connect to my present.” Matthew Salesses on grief, memory, and the feeling of time. | Longreads
Also on Lit Hub: Tressie McMillan Cottom talks resisting trauma cannibalization on Reading Women • Apps that remind you you’re going to die: on death positivity • Scenes of a doomed marriage: Blake Hazard on reading about her great-grandparents, Scott and Zelda • Read from Lena Andersson’s Acts of Infidelity (trans. Saskia Vogel).
