TODAY: In 1776, Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” is published.
- “Like the elements of a messy workspace, we lose sight of what we most wish to remember until we stumble upon them again.” David Ulin on cleaning up his writing desk. | Lit Hub
- On Fiction/Non/Fiction, Carla Bruce-Eddings, Karen Gu, and Tom Barbash discuss the fine art of book publicity; with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. | Lit Hub
- “I read the book and I just chased her. I pursued her for years.” On Lili Anolik, the writer who helped bring Eve Babitz back into the literary consciousness. | Lit Hub
- “We may aptly term color the music of light.” An oddly poetic account of colorblindness from the turn of last century. | Lit Hub
- Why do we demand “relatability” from women’s writing about relationships? (Uh, the patriarchy?) | Lit Hub
- Kirsten Roupenian’s You Know You Want This: canny examination of power-as-weakness, or dull assemblage of shocks and kinks? | Book Marks
- Sylvia Plath’s lost short story, Jackie Chan’s disquieting autobiography, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- Gytha Lodge asks: should there be such a thing as a “comfortable” murder mystery? | CrimeReads
- On #1 Hamilton hater Ishmael Reed’s new play, “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” and the old debate at its heart. | The New Yorker
- “What do you need to do in order to thrive? What does that kind of life look like?” Jami Attenberg on leaving New York for New Orleans in her 40s. | Curbed
- “I don’t want to take time away from your book, she said, but the book could wait. My writing was always there. She might not be.” A writer takes love lessons from Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. | Catapult
- “Baldwin considered America’s racial problem a symptom of white lovelessness.” The evolution of James Baldwin’s writings about love. | The Atlantic
- Is it possible to tell Anne Frank’s story differently?: On the highs and lows of the illustrated adaptation of Diary of a Young Girl. | The New York Times
- What happened to Harlem Renaissance author Jessie Redmon Fauset’s historical marker in Philadelphia? | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Also on Lit Hub: Leila Slimani on her not-so-prudish nanny • How do you set James Joyce’s most famous story on the stage? • Read from A Catalogue of Small Pains
