TODAY: In 1898, Oscar Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol is published under the pseudonym C.3.3., his prison cell number.
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What can music teach us about fiction? Mariah Stovall on writing and repetition. | Lit Hub Craft
- “As they help to uphold their societies’ hegemony over other nations, the news media of the west reflects these origins and ongoing realities.” In a new column, Steven W. Thrasher examines journalism as a front of war. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I want to set down what real intimacy is—uncertain, hopeful, fragile.” Jane Ciabattari interviews Roxana Robinson about aging and romance. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- From Kelly Link to Lucy Sante and Billie Holiday to Billy Dee Williams, these new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Wanna dance, Jenny? A jar of Polish sausages packed in vinegar. Wieners stabbed on a spiked axle that revolves inside a small rotisserie. You don’t love me enough.” Read from Diane Oliver’s new collection, Neighbors and Other Stories. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Ellen Gilchrist has died at 88. | The New York Times
- “Thirty publishers wouldn’t go near Love & Death, but he finally got it in print and distributed it himself from his Bronx apartment.” On Gershon Legman. | JSTOR Daily
- How a queer feminist bookstore collective rescued eight tons of books from a Florida school district. | The Washington Post
- LeVar Burton revisits Reading Rainbow to discuss banned books. | School Library Journal
- “What Ernaux and Plum together suggest is this: We write to fill the emptiness at the heart of all experience. But the experience of the attempt is a hole at the bottom of a bucket.” Aidan Ryan considers the work of Annie Ernaux and Hilary Plum. | Public Books
- PSA: You don’t have to be in (romantic) love to declare your love in a sonnet. | Atlas Obscura
