TODAY: In 1914, the first issue of The New Republic is published; it sells 875 copies.
- What it’s like to see life through two-dozen eyes (we, for one, welcome our jellyfish overlords). | Literary Hub
- Finding solace in bookstores, in the face of cancer. | Literary Hub
- Hanging out with “Ezra’s Boys,” the Italian neo-fascists who idolize Ezra Pound. | Literary Hub
- How I fell in love with reading: the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize finalists weigh in how it all began. | Literary Hub
- The women who shaped Vladimir Lenin. | Literary Hub
- The richness of Tolstoy’s genius: Read Virginia Woolf’s 1917 review of The Cossacks and Other Stories. | Book Marks
- “He has really mastered the popular voice and speaking to enormous public concerns. It’s a kind of public-speaker role for poetry that has gone unoccupied pretty much since Allen Ginsberg died.” A profile of Kevin Young, who has been making poetry matter. | Esquire
- “Why did I have to so strenuously defend myself? Why didn’t I just ignore them and get on with the job?” Phillip Roth on the publication of his collected nonfiction. | Library of America
- Joe Hill on the privileges and pitfalls of writing in the shadow of his famous dad, Stephen King. | GQ
- “If only I could attend French Woods, the place where Natasha Lyonne and Zooey Deschanel had spent their summers. . . Instead, I found myself at the Clara Barton Camp for girls with diabetes.” Maris Kreizman on outperforming her chronic disease. | Longreads
- How Tumblr and Instagram decontextualize complex quotes from writers like bell hooks and Maggie Nelson, leaving only “a general idea . . . that can be hashtagged.” | The Awl
- Not every kid-bond matures: On Malcolm Harris’ Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. | n+1
- Helen Oyeyemi, Emma Donoghue, and more: 8 collections of speculative fiction featuring queer characters. | Autostraddle
