TODAY: In 1883, Napoleon Hill, best remembered for his mega-bestseller, Think and Grow Rich (1937), which has sold an estimated 20 million copies worldwide, is born.
- “My hope was that by embracing openness and vulnerability, my readers would understand and empathize with the situation I had found myself in.” Allison Wood talks to Luna Adler about what a memoir can do. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “There is enough evidence in the public record to support a complaint that the Constitution was breached.” Michael Rips argues that Trump has violated the religious test clause by choosing a judge because of her beliefs. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I’m hoping children will remind their parents of how they felt when they were young, about the world and how utterly filled with wild magic and wonder it is.” Talking to Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris about The Lost Spells. | Lit Hub
- “Hannah Arendt’s words increasingly sound less like a dispatch from another century than a disturbing mirror of the political and cultural landscape we inhabit today.” Yup. Read more from Michiko Kakutani. | Lit Hub Politics
- “It almost feels as if every small victory gained in the farmworkers labor movement has come at the expense of life itself.” Paola Ramos profiles the work of young environmental justice activists. | Lit Hub Politics
- “It is a half-joking commonplace that Patrick Modiano writes the same book over and over…” Mark Polizzoti on a literary career that comprises a “single work.” | Lit Hub
- “I fold like cardboard on a daily basis, break silent-soft underfoot of people who don’t know me, who are supposed to know me most.” Tommy Orange on vulnerability, and familial love. | Lit Hub
- On the Virginia Woolf-inspired fashion exhibition at the Met, About Time: Fashion and Duration. | Vogue
- “McKay was someone constitutionally dedicated to abandoning all the movements he was centrally involved with”: Gary Holcomb and William J. Maxwell discuss Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille. | LARB
- British literary prizes have a long way to go before they can be called equitable. | The Conversation UK
- “It was the most stressful thing I’ve ever been through.” Children’s book author Suzanne Selfors on buying a bookstore a month before the pandemic lockdown began. | The Seattle Times
- Prepare for winter by stocking up on the longest book series out there. | Book Riot
- Jeffrey Deaver on reading and loving Saul Bellow, Harper Lee, and Ian Fleming. | The Guardian
- “I wouldn’t allow myself to believe I was writing a book, because it was too intimidating.” Douglas Stuart on his celebrated debut Shuggie Bain. | The New York Times
