TODAY: In 1876, successful copywriter and business owner (and author) Sherwood Anderson is born.
- “That’s exactly the way I miss my mother. A deepening of the abyss with a hoot.” Read a prose poem from Eileen Myles’ new book, Evolution. | Lit Hub
- Nick Ripatrazone tells the true story of a bitter one-way rivalry, a stolen William Gass manuscript, and the book that rose from the ashes. | Lit Hub
- Matthew Vollmer’s status updates-cum-exploratory essays are rare evidence that social media can be meditative. | Lit Hub
- Historian Antony Beevor on why the past might not actually repeat itself. | Lit Hub
- Because political strife from yesteryear is so much more soothing than today’s: the infighting that almost grounded Project Apollo. | Lit Hub
- Stephen King may be known as the Maestro of Horror, but we’ll always love him for his many, many crime novels. | Crime Reads
- Fiery takes on Bob Woodward’s Trump indictment, Julie Buntin on Nico Walker’s tale of opioid addiction, the end of Knausgaard’s struggle, and more Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- On the remarkable afterlife of three “best-selling works of fiction by dissident Russians” published in the 1950s: Atlas Shrugged, Lolita, and Dr. Zhivago. | The New York Times
- Kevin Kwan, Tara Isabella Burton, Jenny Han and other authors on how they dress the characters in their books. | Vox
- “Between silence and speech lies the act of writing. This is where I seek my remedy.” Amir Ahmadi Arian on a childhood spent in a war zone and the therapeutic power of writing. | Guernica
- “At one time, there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of practicing Tolstoyans around the world, from India to Canada.” Visiting one of the few remaining communes inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings. | Longreads
- The co-owners of the Ripped Bodice bookstore have signed a first look deal with Sony Pictures Television to “develop projects based on their exclusive relationship with romance novel authors and writers.” | Variety
- “We knew better than to take pride in wordless comprehension, but we did it anyway.” Read a short story by Clare Sestanovich. | Electric Literature
- “The philosopher hopes for a home she’s never seen while the country singer mourns for the home she may never see again.” Drew Bratcher on the lyricism of Dolly Parton. | The Paris Review
Also on Lit Hub: On poetry from trauma ∙ Visiting Puerto Rican artists, one year post-hurricane Maria ∙ Read from The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
