TODAY: In 1943, James Alan McPherson, the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is born.
- This week, we’re featuring work on the past, present, and future of the climate crisis for Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Today: Elizabeth Rush on finding women’s voices in the Antarctic • Omal El Akkad on what climate change does to our memories of place • Elizabeth Putfark on reading hyperlocal stories in the face of climate anxiety. | Lit Hub
- Cate Haste considers the legacy of Alma Mahler, muse and mistress of fin-de-siècle Vienna—”a modern woman who lived out of her time.” | Lit Hub
- Alex DiFrancesco and Ashley Shelby discuss writing stories of collective survival in the midst of climate crisis. | Lit Hub
- “Gerty Gerty Stein Stein / Is Back Home Home Back“: on the American tour that made Gertrude Stein a household name. | Lit Hub
- Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, and more rapid-fire book recs from Wayétu Moore. | Book Marks
- “This has to end. We cannot say it any clearer”: A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate, which a federal appeals court recently attempted to resolve. | Los Angeles Times
- Tom Roston eulogizes the Strand Book Store’s New York section (sort of) and, with it, the New York City bookstores that have come and gone in recent years. | Vanity Fair
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s bestselling Fleishman Is in Trouble will be adapted into a limited series for FX. | Deadline
- “Good-Good; Bad-Good; Good-Bad; Bad-Bad.” Adam Wilson on the Golden Age of Television, the Age of Peak TV, and you. | Harper’s
- “What is there to learn from it? That language is the seed of violence, that we need to listen carefully to what is said.” A German graphic novelist finally reads (and reflects on) Mein Kampf. | The New York Times
- “is / this / a / poem?”: how to fake your way to Instagram poetry fame. | Vice
- Should there be an expectation of ghostwriter/subject privilege? | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Will it ever be ethical for athletes to edit their genes? • Marching on London with Extinction Rebellion • Read an excerpt of Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s English-language debut A Fist or a Heart (trans. Larissa Kyzer).
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