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- “I wanted to be entirely where I was, to notice actively rather than reflectively, to use my body to write and not just write about my body.” Traci Brimhall on how her poetry has transformed as chronic illness shifts the pacing of her life. | Lit Hub Craft
- Edwin Frank considers what the novels of William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison reveal about America and its literary reckoning. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How Sylvia Plath found her literary voice by keeping a diary: “At an early age, Plath realized you could incorporate yourself in a medium.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Haruki Murakami, Parks and Recreation’s Jim O’Heir, Jane DeLynn, and more! These 23 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What does Sunday in the Park with George have to do with neo-Impressionism? On Stephen Sondheim and the intersection of visual art and musical theater. | Lit Hub Art
- “In autumn, in anticipation of the oncoming cold season, the beasts’ bodies were covered with a shiny, golden coat of fur.” Read from Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, translated by Philip Gabriel. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Joan was thus twice disappointed: in love and literature. New York must’ve felt like a failure to her—to have come so close and then not to have made it.” Lili Anolik documents Joan Didion’s first love—Noel Parmentel Jr. | Vanity Fair
- Sophie Calle considers the habits of friends and strangers. | The Paris Review
- How Doris Ulmann went from photographing poets to photographing life in Appalachia. | JSTOR Daily
- “In its highest aspirations, the studiolo, as developed by humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne, is a sanctuary for self-cultivation.” Andrew Hui on the emergence of the private study. | Public Domain Review
- Patrick Fealey chronicles life as an unhoused writer in America. | Esquire
- On attempts to communicate with animals (and why corporate tech will not save us): “All that now separates us from enlightenment is a few more rounds of funding.” | The Baffler
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