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- 2020 Preview: All the literary film and TV adaptations you’ll be judging this year. | Lit Hub
- Brian Gresko talks poetry and porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village bar. | Lit Hub
- “How to build enduring trust in one’s own community is the ultimate thrust of The Art of War.” Translator Michael Nylan on Sun Tzu’s oft misunderstood classic. | Lit Hub
- “I am going on a dangerous errand and may never see you again”: On John Brown and the rise of the radical Republican abolitionists. | Lit Hub
- Victoria Turk offers some practical advice for dealing with “friendship overload” in the social media age. | Lit Hub
- Vince Keenan on Booth and Tasker, the formerly incarcerated screenwriters who brought authenticity to early Hollywood crime cinema. | CrimeReads
- Dwight Garner on Garth Greenwell’s scorching new novel, Lauren Oyler’s critique of Jia Tolentino’s essays, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- SlideShare, a hosting service owned by LinkedIn, has become “a vast emporium for pirated e-books.” | Fast Company
- “We have a Joan Didion problem.” Or: when everyone is the Joan Didion of something, no one is the Joan Didion of anything. | The Outline
- A new book by Anthony Bourdain—a travel guide!—will be published this year. | Grub Street
- “There was an entire infrastructure around my experience of freedom, and I’d been so busy chasing it that I hadn’t seen it.” Jenny Odell on Emerson and the myth of self-reliance. | The Paris Review
- From coziness to fika, these international books have some lessons for Americans on how to be happier. | The Washington Post
- Shakespeare’s First Folio is expected to sell for $6 million when it goes to auction at Christie’s in April. | Euronews
- One of Edith Wharton’s copies of The Age of Innocence was donated to a library at her former Massachusetts home (and current museum), the Mount. | The New York Times
Also on Lit Hub: Indigenous forest defenders around the world are dying anonymous deaths • On Ralph Ellison’s two inviolable identities • Read an excerpt from Maja Lunde’s newly-translated novel The End of the Ocean (trans. Diane Oatley).
