TODAY: In 1856, Charles Dodgson chooses his pseudonym — Lewis Carroll.
- “Has anybody expressed what it’s like to be alive in the USA right now so perfectly and concisely as Valeria has?” Francisco Goldman on Valeria Luiselli. | Lit Hub
- There is no redemption for Michael Cohen: Timothy Denevi reports from the corridors of power. | Lit Hub
- “When you are an adjunct, turning space into place can be impractical and emotionally risky.” Maggie Levantovskaya on the process of shedding books as an academic. | Lit Hub
- In this month’s Astrology Book Club, what every sign should read while waiting out the dregs of winter. | Lit Hub
- From an abundance of literary festivals to affordable housing, Cleveland is a surprisingly great place for writers. | Lit Hub
- “The atomic sensorium is not contained in sites: it radiates throughout the city.” Memories of an atomic childhood in Appalachia. | Lit Hub
- Kate Quinn on taking inspiration from the Night Witches, the all-women night bomber regiment who fought the Nazis. | CrimeReads
- New titles from Don Winslow, Ann Leckie, Boris Fishman, and Patrick Radden Keefe all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “The idea of male experience being representative of general experience, and female experience being women’s experience only is depressing.” Meg Wolitzer has fully arrived in Hollywood, and she’s planning to stay. | TIME
- Rebecca Solnit, Anthony Doerr, Samin Nosrat, and the other newest editors of the 2019 Best American Series have been announced. | HMH
- Well, they better not mess it up: The Baby-Sitters Club adaptation has landed at Netflix. | Hollywood Reporter
- “Everything, hopefully, has a will to live. No judgment if it doesn’t.” Natalie Eilbert interviews Dorothea Lasky. | LARB
- The Booker Prize has a new funder, and surprise! It’s a hedge fund billionaire. | BBC News
- “Having the name so many times is crass.” In other very-rich-guy news, the New York Public Library will add Stephen A. Schwarzman’s name to the building… for a sixth time. | The New York Times
- Random House will publish a new Dr. Seuss book, Dr. Seuss’s Horse Museum, this fall. | Publisher’s Weekly
Also on Lit Hub: Nikki Darling and Lilliam Rivera in conversation • The personal as political in the abortion rights movement • Read a story from Aurelie Sheehan’s collection Once Into the Night
