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Barbie fashion designer Carol Spencer on finding her way to Mattel. | Lit Hub
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“When I arrived on the other side of money, I could not do the thing I had planned: to just make art and be happy.” Bette Adriaanse muses on the stories we tell about wealth, poverty, and inequality. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Lara Love Hardin considers how systemic barriers keep the formerly incarcerated from rebuilding their lives: “The system is cobbled together out of catch-22s.” | Lit Hub Politics
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10 new crime novels coming out this week. | CrimeReads
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“Everyone, believer and nonbeliever alike, enjoys a good story. And so it seems to me that the first rule of evangelical nature writing should be: Tell one.” Jonathan Franzen on birds, the Bible, and why nature writing needs to be about more than just nature. | The New Yorker
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Sonja Drimmer digs into the past and present of handwriting. | Public Books
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Expand your horizons with these “promisingly weird” books coming from university presses this fall. | Inside Higher Ed
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A conversation with Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon. | Poets.org
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Melissa Febos on the profound impact of Judy Blume. | NYRB
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“Given to me by a city reporter friend, this has become one of the books I recommend most for unlikely escapism.” Two escapist biographies recommended by Sadie Stein. | New York Times
Also on Lit Hub: Who really invented the selfie? • Jennifer C. Nash on losing time with dementia • Read from Guadalupe Nettel’s newly translated novel, Still Born (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
