TODAY: In 1886, Emily Dickinson dies at age 55; at the time of her death, fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 poems were published.
- Rebecca Solnit: The coup has already happened . . . So what are we going to do about it? | Lit Hub
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, Norman Rush and more on their favorite story by the master of short fiction, William Trevor; Remembering William Trevor in America; plus read a new story from his posthumous collection. | Lit Hub
- George Saunders on the emotional realism and beautiful, hostile dreamscapes of Bobbie Ann Mason. | Lit Hub
- Rebecca Romney on enduring The Big Sleep Test—an “unoriginal remark from unoriginal men”—as a young, female antiquarian bookseller. | CrimeReads
- From The Diana Chronicles to Humboldt’s Gift, Rumaan Alam shares five books of significance to him. | Book Marks
- “Today’s imperial censorship is usually masked as the publisher’s bottom line. ‘This won’t sell’ is the widest moat in the castle’s defenses.” Rabih Alameddine on who gets to tell stories. | Harper’s
- You do me, I’ll do you, and we’ll both benefit: On Gertrude Stein’s “mutual portraiture society.” | The Paris Review
- “Stop being so uptight and boring and xenophobic and just let people figure out how to lives their best lives.” Michelle Tea on her fantasy for the world. | Lit Hub
- “No metaphor captures that sound a plane makes when it dives, the moment before releasing its load. It is its own—a pure creator of horror.” An excerpt from Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple. | BuzzFeed Reader
- Doris Lessing, Bohumil Hrabal, and more: Joshua Cohen recommends 5 novels “in which characters discover politics, or politics discover them.” | Five Books
- Michael Pollan on the lost history of psychedelic therapy. | Lit Hub
- “Behind Locke’s bombast was the inexorable question of suffering: how it forged and brutalized the collective, forcing a desperate solidarity on people not treated as such.” Tobi Haslett on the “dean” of the Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke. | The New Yorker
- From The Joy Luck Club to Crazy Rich Asians, how the Tiger Mom became a pop-culture phenomenon. | Refinery29
- Inside the Georgian mansion where Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited—which can be all yours for a cool £3 million. | Mansion Global
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