TODAY: In 1887, Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance in print in “A Study in Scarlet.”
- Love in a time of plague: David France and Tim Murphy on what we can learn from 30 years of AIDS activism. | Literary Hub
- Ten dystopian novels to inspire your fight for women’s reproductive rights. (Or scare you into fighting.) | Literary Hub
- Dwyer Murphy ventures into the shadowy world of rare book theft. | Literary Hub
- My time as a ghostwriter in a memoir factory. | Literary Hub
- What if each book is harder to write than the last? On getting past a deadly case of writer’s block. | Literary Hub
- “I write, then I think about what that writing suggests outside itself.” An interview with Gregory Pardlo. | The Rumpus
- The old narrative of progress no longer persuades: Nikil Saval on three new books about utopia in America. | Bookforum
- On the cryptic and charismatic Voynich Manuscript, potential container of authentic wisdom. | The New Yorker
- A land of poets-cum-politicians/businessmen/horse breeders/scientists: On the unusually literary Iceland, ft. work by “poetician” Birgitta Jonsdottir. | The New York Times
- Danielle Dutton on (not) editing humor, minimalism, and writing cacophonous books. | The Millions
- “The space for black authors in speculative fiction is continually being built, while the existence of those very spaces is still being challenged by their gatekeepers.” On the need for diversity in speculative fiction. | The Awl
- When you press the click button, the camera remembers: Excerpts from Regina McBride’s Ghost Songs. | Tin House
Also on Lit Hub: Patient Zero: On the fallout of an AIDS bogeyman · Michael Denneny on the great Ntozake Shange · Read from Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
