TODAY: In 1966, poet Anna Akhmatova dies.
- “I’m not saying that it felt like Louisa May Alcott hated me, but maybe that actually is what I’m saying?” Helen Oyeyemi on K-dramas, Little Women, and (non)sense. | Lit Hub
- “He was a man in perpetual dialogue with himself.” Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, reluctant prophet. | Lit Hub
- Madeleines, macaroni pie, and mouldering wedding cakes: who would win in a Great Literary Bake-off? | Lit Hub
- “The great unknowable void was upon him, emptied of all poetic romance.” On the Spanish Civil War and Federico García Lorca’s last days. | Lit Hub
- From “the uneasy motion of scurrying” to “being fundamentally wrong,” here are 16 things Joel Golby fears. | Lit Hub
- “Shame was the story that controlled the narrative of my life. . .” Etaf Rum on finding the courage to share her story. | Lit Hub
- Montana-based author Bryce Andrews recommends five books about coming of age in rough country, from William Kittredge’s Hole in the Sky to Ivan Doig’s The House of Sky. | Book Marks
- Foursome author Carolyn Burke on five fascinating group biographies, from Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company to Just Kids. | Book Marks
- Forget work. Forget obligations. Forget your crazy Lenten promises. It’s Mardi Gras. Read more crime fiction. | CrimeReads
- Margaret Kennedy’s grandchildren discovered a book of “literary confessions” with handwritten contributions from writers including Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, and Rebecca West. | The Independent
- Mira Jacob, Lisa See, Laila Lalami, and more on the books you should be reading this Women’s History Month. | Vulture
- Why are New York City’s bookstores disappearing? | The Guardian
- A court has ruled that Stephen Elliott can’t sue Moira Donegan, creator of the Shitty Media Men List, for emotional distress. | Jezebel
- “Dipshit is my favorite word. I recommend it. It has a slightly Illinoisan-car-salesman feel to it, so part of the pleasure of saying it is the one-second role-play.” Halle Butler on a woefully underused noun. | The Paris Review
- The definitive ranking of 70 (!) feature-length Sherlock Holmes movies. | /Film
- ”I thought it would be so fun, like someone on a game show, on a shopping spree. But it shook me.” Tayari Jones on what she bought with her Oprah’s Book Club money (and why she’s keeping her day job forever). | The Cut
Also on Lit Hub: Literary Disco revisits Helen Dewitt’s The Last Samurai • So Many Damn Books on Dan Mallory and unreliable narrators • On the obsessions of the literary biographer • A poem by Ilya Kaminsky from his new collection Deaf Republic • Read from Unquiet
