TODAY: In 1823, Clement C. Moore’s poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” better known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” is published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel
  • Cristin O’Keefe-Aptowicz on the deep obsessions of non-fiction writers. | Literary Hub
  • On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma, a look at the rise of the “rich bitch” heroine. | Literary Hub
  • The countdown continues, numbers 35 to 26 of the biggest literary stories of the year. | Literary Hub
  • “Big publishing has tried to monetise creativity, kneeling at the altar of the pie chart and Venn diagram.” Are independent presses doing the work for mainstream publishing? | The Guardian
  • A spectrum of writers ranging from Lena Dunham to Elena Ferrante select their favorite poems. | The New York Times
  • A list of 143 award-winning African American poets spanning the last 40 years. | Cultural Front
  • Parties over prayer: How Charles Dickens secularized Christmas. | Electric Literature
  • “We’re taking the data we have, and we’re creating physical places with it,” is the most Amazon way possible to describe building a bookstore. | The New Yorker
  • PEN has called on John Kerry to offer visas to Bangladeshi writers “at imminent risk of attack.” | PEN America
  • A spooky Christmas (this is absolutely a genre) short story by Alice Sola Kim. | Lenny Letter
  • How Eula Biss, Claudia Rankine, Maggie Nelson, and other writers give shape to their essays. | Ploughshares

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