TODAY: In 1935, Richard Brautigan is born.
- “Ultimately, tennis is theory of mind. The ball is a projection of our vain attempts to escape the subconscious, to get outside our heads.” Poet Gregory Pardlo talks tennis and other things. | Lit Hub
- How Ai Weiwei marries advocacy and art at home and abroad: Read from his graphic memoir, Zodiac. | Lit Hub
- “I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” In which the legend Padgett Powell speaks for most of America. | Lit Hub
- A brief history of the grand old American tradition of banning books. | Lit Hub
- Happy Tuesday! Here are 22 new books you should check out. | The Hub
- “The second significant thing that happened back in Joplin was that Millie and her mom started microdosing marijuana.” Read from Kiley Reid’s new novel, Come and Get It. | Lit Hub Fiction
- N Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning Native American novelist, died Wednesday at 89. | The New York Times
- “The most common quarrel between us is this difference between the way each of us makes use of ‘the way it feels.’ In a certain sense it goes to the heart of who we are as writers: why she is a novelist and I a memoirist. Now that I find interesting.” Vivian Gornick on Lore Segal. | NYRB
- “Human and inhuman. Victim and victimizer. Expansive solidarity helps us recognize that we can be both in turn—even at the same moment.” Viet Thanh Nguyen argues for Asian American solidarity. | The Nation
- What is the purpose of punctuation? | JSTOR Daily
- “The right’s mission to eradicate public education is in many ways inseparable from their accelerating attacks on LGBTQ rights and racial justice.” Melissa Gira Grant on the conservative war on education. | The New Republic
