TODAY: In 1565, Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d’Aguisy, Treasurer-General of France and a famous bibliophile known for his love of richly decorated bookbindings (shown above), dies.
- “I want to try to think about Cy Twombly through the poems of Catullus. These two spirits seem to me somehow in tune.” The Anne Carson essay we need (if not deserve). | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I write on the back inside cover of the book I’m reading while my son gets a post-op ultrasound. I write while the chicken roasts.” Molly Spencer on carving out that most precious of writerly resources: time. | Lit Hub Craft
- “now, in this dissolving darkness, you strike / a match and cup this second of warmth, this flame.” A poem by Arthur Sze. | Lit Hub Poetry
- A brief history of the political essay: from Swift to Woolf, David Bromwich considers an ever-evolving genre. | Lit Hub Criticism
- The moment my poetry students and I could no longer ignore the climate crisis: Craig Santos Perez on the origins of his course in ecopoetry. | Lit Hub Craft
- “There’s a tendency among some writers to think that the more you accept and even seek out harsh feedback, the better and more serious your art will be.” Lauren D. Woods makes the case against feedback. | Lit Hub Craft
- On turn-of-the-century suffrage cookbooks, Trojan Horse for women’s equality: now you, too, can learn how to make “pie for a Suffragist’s doubting husband.” | Lit Hub History
- Sigrid Nunez on Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man, Tracy O’Neill on Don DeLillo’s The Silence, and more of the Reviews You Need To Read This Week. | Book Marks
- John Banville’s newest novel gives the sense that he has “apprenticed himself to his own earlier self,” Paul Franz writes. | The Atlantic
- The Black Literary Collective in Oakland, California, is changing conversations within classrooms on race and oppression. | East Bay Express
- A profile of Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, the first undocumented person to receive a National Book Award nomination. | The New York Times
- On Trumbull Park, the 1959 novel by the late Frank London Brown, a recent inductee in Chicago’s Literary Hall of Fame. | JSTOR
- You’ll soon be able to play Mother of Frankenstein, a 15-hour puzzle game based on the life of Mary Shelley. | Publishers Weekly
- From its history to landscape and culture, these books explore the rich world of the Himalayas. | The Guardian
- “You become as intimate as you can with the life and work of this person… But there is always going to be a gap.” Hermione Lee on writing biographies. | New Statesman
