TODAY: In 1908, Mark Twain purchases “Stormfield” mansion in Redding, Connecticut. He derived the property’s name from the short story “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.”
- Documenting ten days in New York during the Black Lives Matter protests: a photo essay by Rachel Cobb. | Lit Hub
- “I went quiet the very moment everyone else seemed to get louder.” Brandon Taylor on managing private anxiety during a very public pandemic. | Lit Hub
- “While to be grateful one must think, to be delighted, one only has to feel.” Sara Franklin on the magic of reading Ross Gay in terrible times. | Lit Hub
- WWII-era Brooklyn, the New Deal, commies fighting fascists… Theodore Hamm explores the world in which Bernie Sanders grew up. | Lit Hub History
- “I, and my poems, have a tendency to look down, to read the ground for what it holds, what’s been buried or sown, abandoned, compressed into coal.” Allison Adair on grief, Dalí, and a famous painting of peasants. | Lit Hub Art
- “Hoo boy, this is going to be a weird, hot ride.” Stephen Rebello, in praise of Valley of the Dolls, irresistible trainwreck. | Lit Hub
- Ahead of the new HBO series, Lee Randall takes a look back at Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason, who always fought for the underdog. | CrimeReads
- Sigrid Nunez on Garth Greenwell, Colm Tóibín on Edoardo Albinati, Parul Sehgal on Machado de Assis, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- To fix racial disparities in book advances, Maris Kreizman argues, the publishing industry should start by paying assistants more. | LA Times
- Poet and activist Yosimar Reyes has a thriving Latinx-centric book club in San Jose. | KQED
- Beer company Stella Artois and reality TV host Andy Cohen teamed up for an animated summertime reading series. | Muse by Clio
- “There was a lot of living going on; a lot of black life in all its quotidian glory. And it was glorious.” Ayana Mathis on Black joy amid the protests. | Rolling Stone
- Jericho Brown, Carmen Maria Machado, and Thoman Page McBee reflect on what Pride means today. | The New York Times
- “Black readers need to see themselves in narratives outside of racism, slavery, Jim Crow, police brutality.” On publishing’s commodification of Black pain. | Tor.com
- In celebration of Dublin’s literary magic. | National Geographic
Also on Lit Hub: Learning early from Hitchcock that nightmares can be real • “Rain”: A poem by Janel Pineda • Read an excerpt from Ali Araghi’s debut novel, The Immortals of Tehran.
