TODAY: In 1893, Guy de Maupassant dies.
Michael Dirda makes the case for Moby-Dick as the ultimate American novel. | Lit Hub Criticism
Why the “legendary” dinner party from Plato’s Symposium is actually about love. | Lit Hub Craft
How medieval scribes engaged in writing as a spiritual practice (and preserved culture and history in the process). | Lit Hub History
On the unexpected gift of sharing a geriatric debut: “When my manuscript wasn’t chosen as the winner, I had a sinking feeling that getting a collection published might take longer than I hoped. And my goodness, did it ever.” | Lit Hub Memoir
This week in literary history, American Red Cross volunteer Ernest Hemingway is struck by an Austrian mortar shell while delivering chocolate to soldiers on the Italian front. | Lit Hub History
Joshua Thermidor reflects on how Etel Adnan’s influenced a generation of poets. | Lit Hub Criticism
“One has to be willing to humiliate oneself in order to yodel, there is no spiritual bypass.” Valerie Hsiung explores the poetics of the yodel. | Lit Hub Craft
“You’ve got long arms for your height. Everyone tells you so. Good for hugging and pulling down rebounds in pickup basketball.” Read “Catcher” from Mac Crane’s debut story collection, Perverts. | Lit Hub Fiction
David E. Nye considers the optical illusion of American progress. | The MIT Press Reader
Jeff Goodwin explores the often erased Marxism of W. E. B. Du Bois. | Jacobin
When Rosemary Tonks disowned her own writing (after converting to Christianity). | New York Review of Books
Hank Kennedy reads two recent graphic biographies of Jane Austen. | The Comics Journal
Have you heard? AI is bad for business. | 404 Media
Keli Dailey rereads Mark Twain as the world burns. | Adi Magazine
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