TODAY: In 1894, Robert Frost’s first poem, “My Butterfly” is published in The New York Independent.
- The case against an American king: Liesl Schillinger on the eery similarities between the Impeachment of Donald Trump and the Indictment of George III. | Lit Hub History
- THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL: On the eve of the anniversary Olivia Giovetti recommends readings from the East German perspective · Paul Vidich takes us through the fateful night that made history (that almost didn’t happen!). | Lit Hub History
- What does “NSFW” mean in the age of social media? On the protean, problematic humor of the internet. | Lit Hub Tech
- Remembering Stephen Dixon, two-time National Book Award finalist, who died Wednesday. | Lit Hub
- “This must be what Walt meant when he said that I couldn’t be too sensitive.” Inside the early struggles of the women who built Disney. | Lit Hub History
- How Lou Sullivan’s journals—“a rare look at how identity can be unearthed internally and then built upon through writing”—enrich the history of trans literature. | Lit Hub
- A November snowstorm and a last-minute change of plans: on Harriet Tubman’s final escape mission. | Lit Hub History
- “What resistance he made put him in actual, deadly jeopardy, as did the compromises he made.” On the work of anti-Nazi writer Hans Fallada, and the illusion of the apolitical. | Lit Hub
- Blown-up Pinkertons and dismembered Nazis: Zach Vasquez on the most cathartic moments in the cinema of violence. | CrimeReads
- Carmen Maria’s Machado’s In the Dream House, Jenny Slate’s Little Weirds, and Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Leslie Jamison on the “cult of the literary sad woman”—and the writers who are bucking the teary trend. | The New York Times
- “It was like discovering a murder weapon.” An illustrated exploration of Fleur Jaeggy’s dark magic. | Spiral Bound
- A new history of women’s writing claims that the earliest works by women in English, typically dated to the late Middle Ages, can be found as far back as the 8th century. | The Guardian
- An interview with Daniel José Older on storytelling, activism, Latinx writers, and more. | PEN America
- What does the future look like for the newly reinvigorated feminist bookstores of the south? | Autostraddle
- W.E.B. Du Bois’s infographics showed “the evolution of black life since emancipation.” | The New Yorker
- “Almost no contemporary literary fiction recounts the experience of getting an abortion.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub: Tales of medical gaslighting: chronic pain, sexism, and more • The impassioned world of Anaïs Nin’s diaries • Read an excerpt from Ananda Devi’s newly-translated novel, The Living Days (trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman).
