TODAY: In 1895, author and activist Frederick Douglass dies.
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- Getting over the myth of the solitary genius: how Kaethe Schwehn learned to love her writing group. | Literary Hub
- On being the oldest guy at skate camp: sometimes immersive journalism gets awkward. | Literary Hub
- Paul Vidich on the 60-year-old family mystery that became an Errol Morris documentary. | Literary Hub
- “Criticism is the thing that’s going to make you better at what you do.” YA author Keira Drake on rewriting her debut novel after an earlier version drew online ire for its colonial overtones. | Vulture
- A man serving a life sentence for murder was offered a $150,000 advance for his debut story collection—and the Michigan Attorney General wants it to go toward the cost of his incarceration. | The New York Times
- “The narrative that ‘literary fiction’ is universally hostile to genre fiction and experimentation is real, but dated.” An interview with Carmen Maria Machado. | Guernica
- “He can’t help himself. In his crusade of defiance no line of criticism is beneath him, and no critic.” Nathaniel Rich on Philip Roth. | New York Review of Books
- How a special 1970 issue of OZ edited by teens set off the longest obscenity trial in British history. | Atlas Obscura
- From a caper set in Lagos to an experimental novel of post-assault trauma, 10 debuts to look out for this spring. | Publishers Weekly
- “I wanted to die but I absolutely wasn’t going to. I had already made up my mind.” New short fiction by Lucy Ives. | Granta
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