TODAY: In 1845, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
- From Octavia Butler to Stephen King, 13 writers whogrew to hate their own books. | Literary Hub
- Emma Glass: How the intensity of nursing led me back to my calling as a writer. | Literary Hub
- Bearing witness to a nation in search of itself: love and wonder in post-Communist Poland. | Literary Hub
- “It is our duty to read many other illustrious poets; it is our pleasure to read Robert Frost.” On the anniversary of Frost’s death, a look back at his final poetry collection, In the Clearing. | Book Marks
- “When you are a small-town librarian, you say ‘yes’ to everything.” How some libraries are stepping in to fill the void left by vanishing local news outlets. | The Atlantic
- From Dorothea Lasky to Tracy K. Smith, a look at some of 2018’s most anticipated poetry books. | NPR
- On Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors, the book used by Charles Darwin during his 5-year journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle and which contained contains “samples, names, and descriptions of a hundred and ten colors.” | The New Yorker
- “I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pushed back when a French journalist asked her if there are bookstores in Nigeria during France’s annual Night of Ideas. | The Cut
- Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has asked the state’s General Assembly to cut all funding for the 75-year-old University Press of Kentucky, which would force the non-profit press to close. | Lexington Herald Leader
- “Nothing destroys a family like an inheritance.” Alexander Chee on the link between money and pain and the inheritance he received after his father’s death at 43. | BuzzFeed Reader
- A bygone utopia: the strangeness of visiting Hearst Castle at an uncertain time for media’s future. | Harper’s
Also on Literary Hub: Five crime must-reads for February: Laura Lippman, Michelle McNamara and more • On the labor of being a disabled writer • Read “Rachel Gardner” by Katherine Karlin.
