TODAY: In 1934, following its acquittal the previous month in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, James Joyce‘s novel Ulysses is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House in New York. It has 12,000 advance sales.
- A 100-year history of the covers of Virginia Woolf. |Literary Hub
- For Fiction/Non/Fiction, Ron Charles and Shanthi Sekaran talk to Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan about censorship, obscenity, and the language of immigration. | Literary Hub
- Mary Shelley: Abandoned by her creator and rejected by society? | Literary Hub
- A style as clear as sunlight and a moral sense as strong as reinforced concrete: On Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Language of the Night. | Book Marks
- “People might take it more seriously than just thinking: ‘Some lunatic’s got a warehouse full of magazines.’” Inside the Hyman Archive, the largest private collection of magazines in the world. | The New York Times
- Charlotte Shane on Lynne Segal’s recently reissued memoir Making Trouble, “a refutation of today’s mainstream feminism, not only explicitly but—more powerfully—implicitly.” | The Nation
- “A new generation of feminist writers, podcasters, academics, and activists is having its moment, and the older generation is all too aware of it.” Lauren Elkin on the French reaction to #MeToo. | The Paris Review
- “I have needed all the genres I have used, and, as a sort of common denominator, I have been the same person with the same concerns from one genre to another.” An interview with Wendell Berry. | Library of America
- “Poetry, or Anthropologie sales rack? Is there a difference?” Soraya Roberts on the badness of Instapoetry. | The Baffler
- Was beloved Scottish bard Robert Burns a “Weinsteinian sex pest”? Poet and critic Liz Lochhead alleged as much on BBC radio, drawing agreement from one Burns biographer and a rebuttal from other Burns scholars. | The Guardian
- On solarpunk, a new genre of science fiction that imagines sustainable futures instead of dystopian hellscapes. | Ozy
Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a Bookstore: At Magic City Books in Tulsa, Oklahoma • The most noir city? Crime fiction on the streets of Belfast • Read from Frankenstein in Baghdad
