TODAY: In 1917, satirist H. L. Mencken publishes “The Sahara of the Bozart” in the New York Evening Mail, which called the South the most intellectually barren region of the US.
- A brief history of religious toleration: on John Locke and the finer points of freedom to worship in the USA. | Literary Hub
- A spontaneous language lurch, away from banality: Future-thinking authors Jennifer Egan and George Saunders discuss writing against nausea, narrative need, and world-creating language. | The New York Times Magazine
- Screaming vs. sighing at domestic unraveling: Comparing Days of Abandonment and Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. | BOMB Magazine
- Becoming “more present, weaker, and more vulnerable:” Alexandra Kleeman undergoes five days of bed rest, a pseudoscience still inflicted on pregnant women. | Harper’s Magazine
- Unlikely literary friends: an angsty teenage girl and Captain Ahab. | The Toast
- “These are students who could no longer endure what had become unbearable.” Roxane Gay defends the student activists at Mizzou and Yale. | The New Republic
- Another day, another newly discovered story by a beloved author!! This time, it is Charlotte Brönte. | The Guardian
- “I commune with the text by way of railing against the text.” A poem by Wendy Xu. | Academy of American Poets
- “I’m in the middle, I’m on camera, so why not use the opportunity to promote a great book?” An interview with the woman now beloved by the Internet for reading Citizen at a Donald Trump rally. | Jezebel
Also on Literary Hub: Oscar Villalon’s booth’s eye view of Portland’s Wordstock · A Literary Long Weekend in East (San Francisco) Bay · Jay Deshpande talks guns and poetry with Montana Ray · From György Spiró’s Captivity set in the first century A.D.
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