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Omar El Akkad chronicles a life of swimming, and the way water “pulls the punctuation out of the body’s sentences.” | Lit Hub Nature
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Amy Brady and Jeff Vandermeer discuss the history and future of ice. | Lit Hub
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“The freedoms on the other side of self-surrender are much more interesting than those that require egoistic management.” Grace E. Lavery recommends just giving in to how you write. | Lit Hub Craft
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Mirinae Lee reflects on the two-sided nature of writing about war. | Lit Hub
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An interdisciplinary friendship: Writer Rajesh Parameswaran and artist Joeun Kim Aatchim talk about artistic layering, the mortality of memories, pain, and Emily Dickinson. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Richard Ford’s Be Mine, Sarah Viren’s To Name the Bigger Lie, and Tania James’s Loot all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
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How Martin Amis created an “aesthetic blueprint for Britpop.” | Hot Press
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Luis Alberto Urrea recommends books that capture the spirit of the borderlands. | The New York Times
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Virginia Sole-Smith and Jo Piazza discuss the beauty of books in which women unapologetically eat. | Burnt Toast
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Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey will publish a collection of “accessible poetry” so “the stigma in working-class communities about it being only for ‘posh people’ or ‘softies’ can gradually be eliminated. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Sayantani DasGupta on diverse retellings of Regency tales • Helen Ellis on writing about people you know • Read a story from Christine Sneed’s latest collection, Direct Sunlight
