TODAY: In 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
- Take immoderate penning proposal from E.B. White (in grant of his birthday). | Lit Hub Advice
- Wanjeri Gakuru recommends indispensable Kenyan books by Joan Thatiah, Michelle Angwenyi, Billy Kahora, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ekow Eshun connected Black Panther and Black futures that transcend the expectations of modernity. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante connected why genre isn’t a trap, but a instrumentality that tin help propulsion writers extracurricular their comfortableness zones. | Lit Hub Craft
- Michael T. Luongo remembers Edmund White as a “grand doyen of LGBTQ+ literature” and an unthinkable mentor. | Lit Hub Biography
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Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, oregon Faith, Sam Kean’s Dinner With King Tut, and Helen Schulman’s Fools for Love all diagnostic among the champion reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Interrogating the ways antithetic myths inhabit their ain unsocial spaces establishes pathways into existences of literate immortality, offering prisms into the creation of storytelling.” Irenosen Okojie connected the creation of gathering mythologies. | Lit Hub Craft
- “There is nary upwind and the rainfall has gone. My caller aluminium bin is inactive successful the mediate of the garden, wherever I had near it, afloat of contents acceptable to burn.” Read from Tariq Mehmood’s novel, Sing to the Western Wind. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “A beardown exemplary for the accidental Danielewski saw successful this burgeoning TV improvement mightiness beryllium the communicative of however Family Guy took off.” Alexander Sorondo connected Mark Z. Danielewski’s unfinished novel. | The Metropolitan Review
- Why the exertion down the slop clogging your feeds is besides the exertion of war. | The Baffler
- Lucy Knight examines a past of fabricated memoirs (and however they negociate to gaffe done the cracks). | The Guardian
- “The occupation with dignity is that it is different mode of holding connected to societal rules without truly noticing wherever those rules travel from.” Claire Jarvis revisits Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April. | The New Yorker
- Simon Wu considers the creator possibilities of the New Jersey Turnpike. | The New York Times Magazine
- On Roland Barthes’ effort “The World of Wrestling” and the kayfabe of American politics. | Los Angeles Review of Books
