TODAY: In 1913, Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way (Du côté de chez Swann), vol. 1 of In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu), is published by Éditions Grasset in Paris at the author’s expense.
- IMPEACHMENT WEDNESDAYS: Rebecca Solnit on the need for impeachment · Liesl Schillinger on the case against an American king · Brenda Wineapple on lessons from the first impeachment · Evan Fleischer on the literature of impeachment. | Lit Hub
- “An unrequited crush on an English teacher is a great gig if you can get it.” From Little Women to Fleabag, Janet Manley considers the appeal of action at a distance. | Lit Hub
- Meet the National Book Award finalists (who kindly agreed to answer some of our questions). | Lit Hub
- Testimonies from America’s most infamous prison: an oral history of Guantánamo. | Lit Hub History
- Navigating a world that sees black children’s suffering as incidental: Jerald Walker on the systemic disregard of the medical establishment. | Lit Hub Politics
- Adam Platt on the time Mario Batali called him “a miserable fuck” (and other notable chef tantrums). | Lit Hub Food
- “Leaving out Vietnam does violence to the ship’s past and brings no honor to its veterans.” On the missing history at New York’s Intrepid Museum. | Lit Hub History
- John Richardson goes inside the artist studio of Georges Braque, “the antithesis of Picasso—cool, meditative, at peace.” | Lit Hub Art
- “The rainy night I was shot three times often replays in my mind like a bad movie.” When Michael Gonzales was shot on his Brooklyn doorstep, he didn’t expect for the bullet to trace back to a legendary hip-hop feud. | CrimeReads
- Loving The House of Mirth, hating Rabbit, Run, and more rapid-fire book recs from Lydia Kiesling. | Book Marks
- “I went there neither to evade old memories nor to make new ones.” Yiyun Li travels to a Finnish Archipelago in the wake of profound loss. | T Magazine
- “This is George Orwell, if Orwell had slowly built an international luxury bedding empire, with 1984 just one rung on the ladder.” On the horror show of the post-Trump “tell-all.” | Slate
- Why do public libraries feel so much more welcoming than museums? | Hyperallergic
- Helon Habila on restoring the human face of the Mediterranean migrant crisis through fiction. | The Mantle
- Barnes & Noble announced the finalists for its inaugural Book of the Year award, a prize determined by booksellers across the US. | Yahoo
- “The singularity arrived on the first day of November.” David Ulin on Blade Runner. | Alta
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge answering questions from famous writers and performers is every bit as delightful as you would expect. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Broken heart? Immanuel Kant is here to help! • A lost vocabulary of amorous terms, from “sheep’s eye” to “love-libel” • Read a story by Genevieve Plunkett from the autumn 20199 issue of The Southern Review.
