TODAY: In 1886, H.D. is born.
- Stef Ferrari recommends incredibly earnest novels by Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- If your partner hates reading, should you dump them? Kristen Arnett dishes out some literary hot takes. | Lit Hub Advice
- Jill Lepore explores why the US constitution was designed to be amended, from her Cundill Prize-shortlisted book, We the People. | Lit Hub History
- “He writes in a sort of thespian-bro argot, spiking locker-room jokes with rococo word choices like a frat-house Faulkner.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- How observation deepened the relationship between Anna Heyward and her dog. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Why Marian Anderson loved Schubert: “Was hearing Roland Hayes and, in time, other inspiring artists sing Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann songs like being beckoned by a musical brook to trust her instincts and follow its unlikely path?” | Lit Hub Music
- “They say we’re a town full of losers. They say we’re eccentric, eclectic—marginal. Maybe I’m exaggerating.” Read from Jed Perl’s new novel, We Never Called It Frisco. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically.” J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi reflect on growing up in the shadow of colonial genocide, in South Africa and Argentina, respectively. | Equator
- Lucy Sante’s encounters with famous writers, from the “highly esteemed but not famous in the usual way” to the reclusive, in large headphones. | The Yale Review
- “How distressing — even traumatic — should war reportage be?” Nick Holdstock on Ukraine and reporting on war. | The Dial
- Joe Sacco discusses Gaza, comics journalism, and hanging out with ordinary people. | Jacobin
- Warren Bernard, executive director of the Small Press Expo, talks to Jason Bergman about small press publishing, future contributions to the Library of Congress, and collecting basically everything. | The Comics Journal
- What if America was called the “United States of the Earth”? Greg Daugherty explores how a country got its name. | Smithsonian Magazine
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