TODAY: In 1977, the mini-series adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots premieres.
- “It is not easy to fight where your adversary is armed to the teeth, and all you have is the street stretching back behind you.” Sahar Delijani on the legacies of the Arab Spring. | Lit Hub Politics
- Zachary Pace on the push and pull of working in publishing as a writer. | Lit Hub Craft
- Here are 26 great new books out today (something for everyone). | The Hub
- How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction before it was a thing. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Manjula Martin talks to Jane Ciabattari about chronicling a world in constant turmoil. | Lit Hub
- White America facing its ghosts: On the slow unraveling of a nation’s suburbs. | Lit Hub
- “David Rizzo knew his son’s resurrection had saved his gun shop.” Read from Alexander Sammartino’s debut novel Last Acts. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “How could a computer render the subtle, yet flamboyant rhetoric of an enslaved Black man speaking to a crowd of wealthy college boys?” Matt Sandler on Cecil Brown’s mission to technologically revive the antebellum poet George Moses Horton. | The Baffler
- On the enduring (and puzzling) influence of the op-ed. | The Millions
- “Though currently on loan to her husband and stepchildren… Dawn is mine, and although we’ve never discussed it, I’m pretty sure I’m hers as well. I know because I can feel it.” David Sedaris on walking and talking with his friend Dawn. | The New Yorker
- A brief history of the United States’ accents and dialects (with an interactive map!). | Smithsonian Magazine
- “The ancestors that exist in our imaginations may not be entirely made up.” Samia Madwar explores the continued resonance of multigenerational novels. | The Walrus
