TODAY: In 1920, Christopher Robin Milne, the son of author A. A. Milne and the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, is born.
- “Although Nazis were more famous for burning books, they also sold them.” Evan Friss on when the Nazis opened a propaganda bookstore in Los Angeles. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Get ready for the literary film and TV you need to watch this fall. | Lit Hub Film
- “He was not one of those people who say they are ready for death.” Rosie Schaap on losing her husband. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Maribeth Fischer on why it’s worth it to look on the bright side of stories. | Lit Hub Craft
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Read “The Prodigal Converses with the Land,” a poem by Kwame Dawes from the collection Sturge Town. | Lit Hub Poetry
Article continues after advertisement - “When I’m twelve, I have a pet lamb named Wilbur. I feed her powdered milk mixed with water that I funnel into an old beer bottle.” Read from Zoe Whittall’s collection, Wild Failure. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The thing that struck me most was the simplicity of it all.” Annie Ernaux documents a year of cancer and desire. | The New Yorker
- How Nella Larsen’s training in the New York Public Library system influenced her novels. | JSTOR Daily
- “The Nakba and the Palestinian experience in its aftermath have had lasting and far-reaching consequences in Arabic cultural production.” Lena Khalaf Tuffaha talks to Huda Fakhreddine about translating Palestinian literature and experience. | Words Without Borders
- “Like real-world gossip, literary gossip reveals truths that are normally hidden, the sort of information that is spoken about—when it’s spoken about—in hushed tones.” On gossip as literary genre. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Yet another AI company is being sued by authors for copyright infringement. | The Verge
- “That was where a famous jazz club used to be. I think it was called Club 845.” Spend a morning walking around the Bronx with Ian Frazier. | Slate
