TODAY: In 1873, Howard R. Garis, best known for a series of books featuring Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit, is born. Look, not every day is Shakespeare’s birthday.
- 365 books to start your climate change library, part four: politics, pathologies, philosophy. | Lit Hub
- Reading Robinson Crusoe, 300 years on (in which we learn that the real life castaway behind the story actually asked to be dropped off). | Lit Hub
- “These are poems for a world in which there is no safety.” Read a profile of Deborah Landau. | Lit Hub
- Dreaming of being a writer when you’ve never actually met one: on growing up in the literary backwaters of Missouri. | Lit Hub
- James Tate Hill recommends five climate change audiobooks to listen to this spring. | Lit Hub
- “If France proffered him love, it also bathed him in a peculiar shade of loneliness.” Gabrielle Bellot on the virtuosic shame of Giovanni’s Room. | Lit Hub
- The view from the middle of everything: dispatches from Flatville, Illinois. | Lit Hub
- “All ‘facts,’ from whatever source, were welcome.” On early 20th-century America’s unhealthy fixation with “hygiene.” | Lit Hub
- The Essential Ian McEwan: a reading list for the most adapted man in literary fiction. | Book Marks
- Mueller misery, false prophets, tedious sex, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- Our Edgar roundtable on the state of crime fiction continues: 20+ nominees weigh in on the state of the genre, ahead of tonight’s awards ceremony. | CrimeReads
- Maggie Doherty does a deep dive into the Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s history of institutional sexism, entitled male instructors, and feminist resistance. | The New Republic
- “What would happen, I wondered, if we just kept mushing?” Blair Braverman on the time she ran the Iditarod. | Outside
- Dzanc Books has dropped its title Siege of Tel Aviv, marketed as a satire about Arab armies destroying Israel and killing Jewish people, after the book was accused of being Islamophobic. | Publishers Weekly
- “It was as if even Lit Wife didn’t know what she wanted from this weekend.” Read a new short story by Sarah Gerard. | Electric Literature
- “I could not imagine the complete devastation of motherhood”: Kate Zambreno and Sarah Manguso on writing postpartum. | The Paris Review
- Nora Roberts is suing a Brazilian romance novelist for copyright infringement. | The New York Times
- Thirteen state and local poets laureate have been awarded more than $1 million in grants from the Academy of American Poets. | StarTribune
Also on Lit Hub: On Otherppl, David Shields on the painstaking work of collage • Who owns the memories when a family has more than one writer? • How to be a normal person in Hollywood • Read a story from Selahattin Demirtaş’ collection Dawn (tr. Amy Marie Spangler and Kate Ferguson.
