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TODAY: In 1913, Marcel Proust‘s Swann’s Way, volume one of In Search of Lost Time, is published by Éditions Grasset in Paris.
- “My personality is more indebted to The Simpsons than any other book or movie or album or show or art thing.” Meet the 2024 National Book Award finalists while they answer some of our quick questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jen Benka considers art in the face of cataclysm and Bill T. Jones’s AIDS elegy Still/Here at 30. | Lit Hub Art
- Patrick Rosal sings the praises of Jessica Hagedorn’s revolutionary Dogeaters: “I mean to say, the book is haunted. Phantasms inhabit every chapter.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.” Linda Grant on what’s true and what’s invented about 0ur origins. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Follow the money, and there you find the waste.” John Marsh on Robert Moses and how The Great Gatsby changed the landscape of New York City. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How Wallis Simpson, future Duchess of Windsor, sought out divorce in 1920s Shanghai. | Lit Hub Biography
- “I hadn’t quite decided whether any of this admittedly dry information would be useful for writing fiction, but my hands were quicker to act than my brain, and soon I was filling page after page with smudged pencil script.” Read from Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s novel Taiwan Travelogue, translated by Lin King. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Sarah Thankam Matthews talks to Raghu Kanard about the fight against the far right in India. | Lux
- Michele Moses considers Lore Segal’s life, work, and stubborn optimism. | The Nation
- “AI is meant to fill treatment gaps, whether their causes are financial, geographic, or societal. But the very people who fall into these gaps are the ones who tend to need more complex care, which AI cannot provide.” Jess McAllen on AI therapists. | The Baffler
- “…you so readily confuse advocacy of unorthodox forms of thought with the promotion of violence, for it lays bare the totalitarian impulse at the core of your enterprise.” Orisanmi Burton pens an open letter to prisons that have banned his book, Tip of the Spear. | Public Books
- Florida’s Department of Education has released a list of 700 books that were banned from K-12 classrooms in the 2023-2024 school year, 400 more titles than in the previous year. | WUSF
- Blake Butler argues that reading is more important than ever, and offers some strategies for developing consistent reading and writing practices. | Dividual
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