- “In the early days of a first draft, it doesn’t take much for a story to shift.” Nancy Star on the ways we can get lost, in writing and the woods. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Oxford is run on lines so frightfully cliquish. You have got to belong to the circle of the boys if you are to get along.” A young V.S. Naipaul writers a letter home to dad. | Lit Hub
- “The curious story of how a sticky discharge from billions of insect bodies became a vehicle for the globalization of audio culture.” Would we even have rock n’ roll if we didn’t have shellac? | Lit Hub History
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- Did somebody say “Toni Morrison marathon reading”? (No, but it’s happening, along with a ton more virtual literary events.) | Lit Hub
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- “The quality of her dreaming, its interior abstraction, is exquisite. Its wonder lies in how closed its shutters are to any mundane world, how far back the lanes and alleyways of its imagining recede from the proper nouns and pedestrianisms of our lives.” On Renee Gladman’s surreal architectures. | n+1
- Jan Morris, noted historian and travel writer, has died at the age of 94. | The Guardian
- Now is a great time to tackle this introductory reading list on socialism. | JSTOR Daily
- “Now we have room for routine and we make no objection to sitting outdoors in the cold, on stools.” Aysegul Savas on neighborly life during the pandemic. | The Paris Review
- Morgan Thomas on the rise of queer ecological novels, which “ask how our perception of what is ‘natural’ impacts our relationships with the environment and each other.” | Ploughshares
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