TODAY: In 1865, The New York Saturday Press publishes Mark Twain’s “Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog.”
- Justice for the Marianne Dashwoods: Rachel Vorona Cote on Jane Austen and the legacy of the stoic woman. | Lit Hub
- “Underneath Trump’s vanity is a deep sea of insecurity.” Jerrold Post and Stephanie Doucette on the president’s unprecedented lack of intellectual curiosity. | Lit Hub Politics
- Industrialist, typewriter king… antifascist? Adriano Olivetti did it all. | Lit Hub History
- Actually, Latin is alive and well: Nicola Gardini dispels the rumors of its untimely death. | Lit Hub
- “Police forces and their relation to black people in general is a long tale of the enforcement of whiteness and blackness.” Darryl Pinckney on the American tradition of anti-black vigilantism. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Sappho Drives Upstate (Fr. 2)” by Anne Carson. | Lit Hub
- Jeff Jackson on cult novelist Dennis Cooper’s elegant jump to film. | Lit Hub Film
- On finding islands of beauty in the Eternal City: Marco Lodoli’s vagabond impressions of Rome. | Lit Hub
- The long, strange, complicated cultural legacy of Charlie’s Angels, from the original show to today. | CrimeReads
- “Lord, it’s fun.” Why Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels are the best literary series of the decade. | EW
- Julia Lovell, a historian and translator of Chinese literature, won the $75,000 Cundhill History Prize for her monumental study of Maoism, Maoism: A Global History. | History Extra
- Historic flooding has destroyed “hundreds” of books at Venice’s Libreria Acqua Alta (High Water Bookshop). | The Local Italy
- Laura Dern, who will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Little Women, will narrate an audiobook version of the classic. It’ll be released in time for the holidays. | Yahoo! News
- In defense of reading books on your phone. | The Cut
- “I don’t like the word ‘harassment’ any more.” Leslie Jamison talks to Mary Gaitskill about her new novel This Is Pleasure, #MeToo, and complexity. | The Guardian
- Why did John M. Ford, a beloved and award-winning science fiction writer, fall into obscurity? | Slate
Also on Lit Hub: Atlas with Shifting Edges: Elizabeth Rush on the Emergence Magazine podcast • Robert Polito on the art of iconoclastic film critic Manny Farber • “Red Sea”: a poem by Dan Poppick • Read an excerpt from Dave Eggers’ new novel The Captain and the Glory.
