TODAY: In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the “Type-Writer.”
- Karen Rinaldi: when a lifelong editor decides to write a novel… | Literary Hub
- An American bookseller reports from a glamorous Italian bookfair (occasionally in crayon). | Literary Hub
- Plum Sykes knows it’s getting bad when fashion gets political. | Literary Hub
- Dave Boling follows a thread of forgotten family history and spins it in to historical fiction. | Literary Hub
- Exiled from manhood: Ryan Van Meter on queer writing and the Midwest. | Literary Hub
- “These works are an outlet for grief, but also part of what has become an obligation for black families to mourn in public.” Mychal Denzel Smith on memoirs by the parents of children killed by police. | The New Republic
- A literary outsider in the vein of Flannery O’Connor or Harry Crews: Tobias Carroll profiles The Sarah Book author Scott McClanahan. | Rolling Stone
- “It is perhaps best to say straight off that the book is a masterpiece.” On Natalia Ginzburg’s recently reissued autobiographical novel Family Lexicon. | The New Yorker
- Among all the things millennials are purportedly killing (napkins, golf, bars of soap, non-twist-off wine), there’s one thing they can’t be accused of ruining: libraries. | Pew Research Center
- How seeking to illuminate the “ultimately creative act” of translation can “massively improve our understanding of literary theory and texts.” | Asymptote
- Naomi Klein explains why she opted to publish her new book No is Not Enough with an independent press (and without an agent), rather than a bigger house. | Publishers Weekly
- “When I was in elementary school, what I wanted most . . . was the freedom to walk home from school alone.” On diaspora, kidnapping, and murder in Southern California. | Joyland
Also on Lit Hub: Everything is political: on raising money through reading series’ · Is The Watchmen coming to TV? And other literary film and TV news of the week · Get an early look at Adua, Igiaba Scego’s new novel.
