TODAY: In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- COVERING CLIMATE NOW: This week, we’re featuring work on the past, present, and future of the climate crisis as part of a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets. Today: Tara Houska on listening to the voices of Indigenous elders in a time of climate crisis • Victoria Blanco highlights the quiet resistance and acts of hope on the US-Mexico border. | Lit Hub
- On the other hand: “Narrative is the enemy.” Roy Scranton makes the case against storytelling in the face of ecological disaster. | Lit Hub
- “In Japan, I never forget that a great conversationalist is one who listens.” Pico Iyer on Japan’s infinite silences. | Lit Hub
- In the first edition of his new monthly column on high school English teachers, Nick Ripatrazone talks to Tricia Ebarvia about teaching-as-vocation. | Lit Hub
- “It was the first time I can recall saying that a defiantly feminine, pop-friendly book largely about trans themes was a valuable work of American literature.” Veronica Scott Esposito on reading Janet Mock and embracing glamour. | Lit Hub
- Spoon, M.I.A., Lorde, and more: Dan Kois assembles the perfect playlist for traveling the world with kids. | Lit Hub
- “the world / is getting unbearably hot.” A poem by Tayi Tibble. | Lit Hub
- Here’s the Translated Literature Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards. | The Hub
- Three years after the series wrap, Craig Johnson is still crafting complex worlds for Walt Longmire—and readers are still connecting. | CrimeReads
- 10 Great Novels That Rewrite History: from The Man in the High Castle to The Underground Railroad. | Book Marks
- On the visual styles of Instagram poetry, as part of “a long tradition that views handwriting as heightening the lyrical intensities of a poem, its status as an intimate, affectively rich expression of the poet’s thoughts and feelings.” | Post45
- Yep, Chris Rock is writing a book. | The New York Times
- The US government has filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, alleging that his book, Permanent Record, violates his non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and NSA. | Talking Points Memo
- “When I was shot, I was not surprised. I’d been waiting so long to be shot.” Read a new short story by Catherine Lacey. | Playboy
- “Throughout the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth, every generation rewrote the book’s epitaph. All that changes is whodunnit.” Sorry, haters: books will never die. | The Paris Review
- From the archives: Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), son of Nathaniel, on his father’s “luminous” writing room and fabled mahogany desk. | New England Review
- The largest Little Free Library in Mississippi is, of all things, a replica of the TARDIS, the time and space travel device used in Doctor Who. | Hattiesburg American
Also on Lit Hub: Reading Women discuss the erasure and reclamation of Australian Aboriginal and Native American identity • Kimberly King Parsons talks assembling a story collection on Otherppl • What would happen if the world lost the internet? • The last love letters of anti-Nazi German resistance fighters • Read an excerpt from Tracy Chevalier’s new novel A Single Thread.
