TODAY: In 1819, Keats writes his ode, “To Autumn.”
- “Let’s make new mistakes.” Naomi Klein’s advice for the next generation of climate activists. | Lit Hub
- Long live the literary journal: Jim Shepard on “the indispensability of small literary magazines to what remains of American intellectual culture.” | Lit Hub
- “[T]his is my declaration of faith: Fuck the patriarchy.” Mona Eltahawy makes the case against civility. | Lit Hub
- Open to interpretation: Benjamin Moser on the brief relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns. | Lit Hub
- 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: Torsa Ghosal on Gun Island and the stories that survive a changing planet • Megan Mayhew Bergman revisits E.B. White’s urgent calls for environmental justice. | Lit Hub
- Here are the 25 best campus novels of all time, otherwise known as: the dean’s listicle. | Lit Hub
- “Elegy for Robert Frank.” A poem in remembrance, by David Roderick. | Lit Hub
- What is lost when doctors overlook the humanity of their patients? | Lit Hub
- Here’s the Poetry Longlist for the 2019 National Book Awards. | The Hub
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’ fiction debut, Tayari Jones on Jacqueline Woodson, Janet Malcolm on a Susan Sontag biography, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- 2019 has been an incredible year for crime fiction – and there’s still plenty more to come! Here’s 85 (more) books to look forward in 2019. | CrimeReads
- Parnassus Books, unproblematic seltzer, and a few more of Jacqueline Woodson’s favorite things (none of which are from Amazon). | The Strategist
- Graeme Gibson—author and conservationist, former president of PEN Canada, and Margaret Atwood’s husband—has died at 85. | CBC
- Lucy Ellman, author of 1,034-page Ducks, Newburyport, thinks people are too hung up on the book’s length. | Washington Post
- “We will write. We’ll discuss the writing life. We will share our work and learn. We will revise. We will enjoy inspiration, camaraderie and quiet.” On the writing workshop boom. | The New York Times
- Children’s author Eloise Williams was chosen as the inaugural Children’s Laureate of Wales. | The Bookseller
- Do writers need to be under pressure to produce good work? Paul Kingsnorth, author of Savage Gods, thinks so. | NPR
- Your favorite celebrities probably don’t have their own book club, but these five do. See what they’re up to on Instagram. | Vogue
Also on Lit Hub: When Leonard Bernstein played cultural diplomat in 1960s Japan • Lars Svendsen on the philosophical problem of “pet” consciousness • Read a story by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge from the Spring issue of Conjunctions.
