TODAY: In 1966, Delmore Schwartz, poet and short story writer, dies. Saul Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Humboldt’s Gift is based on Bellow’s relationship with Schwartz.
- “I risked being called a liar twice: first, in my claims about Plath’s experience of intimate partner violence, and also in my own.” Emily Van Duyne on how our culture continues to blame the victims of male violence. | Lit Hub Biography
- Tita Ramírez on Cuban-American stories and the ways popular idioms resonate across generations. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Why won’t my local indie stock my book? Am I the literary asshole?” Kristen Arnett has some advice for troubled writers. | Lit Hub
- “The Wuhan experience was different from that of every other part of China, just as the China experience was different from that of every other country.” Peter Hessler on Wuhan before the pandemic and since. | Lit Hub Health
- “Suicide: It’s a sin. Yet the M*A*S*H theme song, at certain moments, seems to drift from this book’s spine.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- On lyrics and prose: What listening to music and writing a narrative have in common. | Lit Hub Music
- Emma Specter examines how diet culture influences disordered eating: “To the disordered eater’s mind, weight is not something we carry, it’s something we are.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The congregation sang a hymn, ‘God Will Take Care of You.’” Read from Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new novel, 54 Miles. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Dr. Frankenstein in this metaphor is the translator:” Some (mixed) metaphors for translation. | The Paris Review
- John Bucher considers the storytelling potential of knots. | Atlas Obscura
- Poet and art dealer Stanley Moss has died at 99. | The Washington Post
- They do baseball in Britain now. No, really. Baseball. | The Dial
- Sad girl literature is a cultural phenomenon, but what about the boys? Katie Tobin wants to know where the modern Holden Caulfields are. | Esquire
- Andre Pagliarini revisits The Motorcycle Diaries: “If the softer Che made the diaries such a hit in the 1990s, what stands out today is how hard-fought its optimism is—how much effort must sustain its conviction that a better world is possible.” | The New Republic
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