TODAY: In 1819, George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, is born.
- Hopepunk, solarpunk, and climate narratives that go beyond the apocalypse: Alyssa Hull tries to find optimism in teaching cli-fi to terrified students. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- How did organized religion-averse George Eliot come to write the proto-Zionist novel Daniel Deronda? | Lit Hub
- Nick Ripatrazone speaks to Catherine Reed about teaching high school students to write about both joy and pain. | Lit Hub
- “You have to give up wanting to please.” Dorothy Allison on the necessity of making readers uncomfortable. | Lit Hub
- “Proper and upright did not mean passive and docile.” How religious revivalism gave women a voice in colonial America. | Lit Hub History
- “I tapped my cane against the rails to find my way thru Death.” Allen Ginsberg’s South American travel diaries are on-brand. | Lit Hub
- Ingmar Bergman basically made a movie for each one of his fears. | Lit Hub Film
- A new historical novel from Robert Harris, a biography of William Monroe Trotter, and a reimagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Little Women may have paid the bills, but Louisa May Alcott was far more passionate about her sensationalist thrillers. Stephanie Sylverne has the story. | CrimeReads
- Walter Minton, the publisher who took a chance on Lolita, has died at 96. | Chicago Tribune
- “The political awakening is for everyone”: A wide-ranging interview with Lauren Duca on millennials, generational divisions, and political revolutions. | The Mantle
- By blurring genres and liberally playing with the source material, recent German theatrical adaptations of Anna Karenina and Don Quixote make the case that long literary works can translate onto the stage. | The New York Times
- “I am in this room … semicolon … and so is my mother.” Read Sarah M. Broom’s National Book Award acceptance speech. | Vulture
- A history of “the quietest room in San Francisco”—the Poetry Room at City Lights Bookstore. | SFGate
- Shawn Wong on John Okada and the politics of reprinting Asian American classics. | Asian American Writers’ Workshop
- The question of whether to stock an LGBTQ children’s book in the library is causing controversy in a West Virginia town. | WDTV
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