TODAY: In 1911, Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- At this point, shouldn’t most fiction be climate-fiction? Nine important cli-fi novels you should read. | Lit Hub
- Christian Donlan on a lifetime reading Oliver Sacks, and how it helped him understand his diagnosis. | Lit Hub
- Letting kids be kids: on summer camp, Elizabeth Bishop, and the poetry of youth. | Lit Hub
- “Criticism is not just an opinion or a reaction but a serious, considered exploration of a work and a quest for some kind of truth.” An interview with Boston Globe book critic Priscilla Gilman. | Book Marks
- 8 crime writers who served time in prison, from Chester Himes, to Anne Perry. | CrimeReads
- “His words bring into focus the cruel irony of what it feels like to be a young black man in America.” On a poem by 17-year-old Antwon Rose, who was killed by a police officer in Pittsburgh while fleeing a traffic stop, unarmed, in June. | The New Yorker
- Why are so many children’s books about mice? The answer to a question you didn’t even know you had. | Bustle
- “I see science as a stepping stone on the way to story. . . I keep coming back to eyeballs and snowflakes.” An interview with Samantha Hunt about mermaids, myths, and the reissue of The Seas. | Jezebel
- No one ever called her a warm and fuzzy writer: On “Rogue’s Gallery,” Mary McCarthy’s “sly rewriting of The Great Gatsby.” | Public Books
- “His poetry offers a model of artistic and political opposition that equips people with more than stress and anxiety.” Translating the radical poetry of Aimé Césaire. | The Nation
- Blizzards, snow drifts, and howling arctic winds: gird yourself against an epic heatwave with these 6 cold books. | The New York Times
- “You guys ready for some disembodied enlightenment?” Read an excerpt from Andrew Martin’s Early Work. | n+1
