TODAY: In 1897, Stephen Crane sails to England as a war correspondent for New York Journal to cover the impending Greco-Turkish War.
- On a remote Arctic island, Barry Lopez contemplates the hard questions of humanity’s survival. | Lit Hub
- “This librarian is gonna teach you how to get your digital house in order.” Kristen Arnett will get you to Inbox Zero. | Lit Hub
- “I never intended to become an essayist.” Read a 1986 interview with James Baldwin. | Lit Hub
- “All these versions of him are false. They are also true.” Writing poetry to find a father worth grieving. | Lit Hub
- Economy, self-reliance, community: what Joe Wilkins wishes his children could learn from his rural upbringing. | Lit Hub
- “the new form, which is in some ways unfamiliar, forces one to read differently—” Andrea Dworkin’s argument against punctuation. | Lit Hub
- Killer couples, gruesome Swedes, and quiet suspense: all the debut crime novels you need to read this month. | CrimeReads
- “Does it do any good to remind ourselves: these will (very soon) be the good old days?” From nuclear war to climate disaster, Josephine Rowe on the End Times in Australia. | The Believer
- The winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards for nonfiction have been announced. | Book Marks
- Tommy Orange has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his acclaimed debut novel, There There. | PEN America
- Zinzi Clemmons writes about the friendship and fallout between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. | The New York Times
- “In those pre-hip-expresso-bongo days, Stanley’s was the nearest thing to a Left Bank we had out there”: The story of the Stanley Rose Book Shop, a hotspot in 1930s L.A. for writers and artists. | LAist
- If you missed her on book tour, here’s Michelle Obama talking about her memoir with John Green on BookTube. | YouTube
- Francis Spufford has written a prequel to C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books—but not everyone thinks we need one. | The Guardian, New Statesman
- Books are fashion now. Congratulations, everyone. | Vogue
Also on Lit Hub: Read a poem by Brenda Shaughnessy from her collection The Octopus Museum • Learning from Carolyn Forché’s fearlessness • Part two of Reading Women‘s Australian episode • Halle Butler talks millennial burnout on So Many Damn Books • Read from Make Me a City
