TODAY: In 1963, William Carlos Williams dies.
- “When you go fishing, you are committed to the idea that you don’t know what will happen.” Thomas McGuane on the beauty and absurdity of fly fishing. | Lit Hub
- “It seems that no flowering summer lies ahead of us, but rather a polar night of unimaginable darkness.” Peter Fleming on why he writes toward apocalypse. Happy Monday! | Lit Hub
- Read an excerpt from Goya: The Terrible Sublime, a graphic look at Goya, the original comic book artist. | Lit Hub
- “The imperfections our skeletons display are stories from our lives.” Our skeletons reveal more than we think. | Lit Hub
- 13 books to read this March, as recommended by Lit Hub contributors. | Lit Hub
- On N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn: the first novel by a Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize. | Book Marks
- “We discussed the power of negative thinking and discomfort as we ate swordfish sashimi in a plum yuzu.” T Kira Madden’s enviable week in food. | Grub Street
- Perhaps you will not be shocked to learn that George Saunders is inspired by the Syracuse mall . . . where the carousel is right next to the Hooters. | Electric Literature
- Read a profile of A.N. Devers, who with the Second Shelf “has become the face of a movement to reevaluate and revalue rare books written by women.” | Vulture
- “It’s really very simple. Our stewardship would be both to the earth and to gender.” bell hooks, Roxane Gay, Maggie Nelson, and more on what a feminist future looks like. | Broadly
- In which we learn that Gary Shteyngart has maybe never seen a rabbit: the writer who collected 10-second drawings of bunnies from celebrated writers over the course of a decade. | The New York Times
- In China, where web-based literature attracts 400 million readers, the government has tried steering the literary tastes of Internet users. | Abacus
- In today’s edition of The Youth Will Save Us All: Stacey Fru, and 11-year-old South African school girl, is set to publish her fifth book. | Reuters
Also on Lit Hub: Craig Russell on seeing—and writing—the world with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome • A poem by Diane Seuss from her collection Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl • Read from A Season on Earth
