TODAY: In 1690, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- Rachel Eliza Griffiths remembers how it felt as a young black woman writer to be seen: “When you are seen you can no longer disappear.” | Literary Hub
- In the piece we have all been waiting for, Nell Zink describes birding with “Clickbait;” clues to his identity include his mini car, his trouncing of feminism, and his ability to always get a headline but constant awareness of the pain of rejection. | The Cut
- In other news regarding inflated male egos and questionable sex writing, Morrissey’s novel has received interesting reviews. | The Guardian
- “The encyclopedia, for a leisurely, curious man, is the most pleasing of literary genres.” Borges on the literary identities of countries, shyness, and the conditions that produced poetry. | NYRB
- A catalog of hypocrisy: indexing The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. | n+1
- “I’m not sure fiction is ever fully fictional or that we can ever not write about ourselves.” David Payne talks Luke vs. Darth Vader, metaphors, and ventriloquism. | Electric Literature
- “I always aimed at being a legend.” On the recent (and overdue) veneration of Eileen Myles. | Vulture
- Transcending the world of commerce: on the insurgent artistry of pamphlets. | City Lights
- “Books for Robert were more than just collectible objects or containers of ideas that could find their way into his visual work.” Studying narrative echoes and pure imagery with Robert Seydel. | The Believer
Also on Literary Hub: Maria Lopez on growing up in the mud valley of the Andes · A reading list for the Pope · On the 25th anniversary of Friday Night Lights · Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas created modern environmentalism visits Thomas Jefferson in The Invention of Nature
