TODAY: In 1873, Paul Verlaine shoots and wounds Arthur Rimbaud.
Zach St. George explores the wild scams of
Australia’s snake venom con men. | Lit Hub
History
How activists Kevin Tubbs and Jacob Ferguson brought
environmental liberation of the fae variety to America. | Lit Hub
Climate Change
“During his years in exile, Osip Mandelstam was denied the right to work for any publication or publishing house; translation jobs were cancelled, his writing went unpublished.” The parallels between
the terror of Stalin and the terror of Trump. | Lit Hub
History
David Baerwald considers the
writing lessons he learned from Hans Zimmer. | Lit Hub
Craft
“At each turn, Kathy’s voice—with the depth and texture of her experience—was already missing.” Jo Scott-Coe on
Kathy Leissner, the overlooked first victim of the University of Texas tower shooting. | Lit Hub
Biography
“I could get some work done / here, I shrugged; / I had done it before.”
Read “Boardinghouse With No Visible Address,” a poem by Franz Wright from the collection Axe in Blossom: Last Poems & Fragments. | Lit Hub
Poetry
Rachel Aviv’s You Won’t Get Free of It, Daniel Mason’s Country People, and David Thompson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light all feature among
the best reviewed books of the week. |
Book Marks
“The next morning, Steven suffered through his undergrad fiction workshop with a hangover; three drinks had, sometime in the last few years, become a daylong punishment.” Read from
Teddy Wayne’s new novel, The Au Pair. | Lit Hub
Fiction
“The trustees are unconstrained in making expedient but foolish choices because those who offer critiques and counter-proposals simply don’t matter.” Gregg Gonsalves on
the higher education revolution we need. | The Nation
Casey Cep considers
the genius of Jon Klassen. | The New Yorker
Rachel Aviv talks to Lucy McKeon about
the relationships between parents and children and her new book, You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters. | Broadcast
The era of AI isn’t the first time automation has tried to invade classrooms, and
it hasn’t gone well in the past. | The MIT Press Reader
Abigail Susik explores
the pessimism of André Breton. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Hua Hsu traces
the past and future of Silicon Valley’s Highway 85: “There were celebrations all along the route that day. I remember walking down the on-ramp and seeing the road extend for miles.” | Places
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