TODAY: In 1862, Henry David Thoreau dies. 

• “If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening.” Jon Fosse on how writing plays transformed his craft. | Lit Hub Craft
• Rebecca Kormos on the changing face of nature and climate narratives: “In truth, I hunger for books about nature and science by women.” | Lit Hub Nature
• Nina Sharma on Shiva’s dreadlocks and navigating anti-Blackness within her Indian-American family. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “My father wrote half of me into being, I suppose. My mother wrote the other half.” Jane Wong on memoir, permission, and writing about family. | Lit Hub Craft
• What does it mean to be both a mother and a daughter? Heidi Reimer on inhabiting both roles in fiction and in life. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Ariel Dorfman recommends Latin American literature to Latin America’s most autocratic leaders. Whether they’ll learn something from reading remains to be seen. | Lit Hub Politics
• “I said to myself I think you’re scared of the algorithms, Auxilio, Auxilio wrote…” Read from Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s new novel, American Abductions. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “Every love poem is a Palestine poem, and every Palestine poem is a love poem.” Mandy Shunnarah on Mahmoud Darwish and writing Palestinian poetry. | The Offing
• Rachel Cusk and Ira Sachs discuss ”novelistic” filmmaking. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• The Society of Authors has voted against issuing a statement denouncing genocide in Gaza. | The Guardian
• Unsurprisingly, there’s more drama with Kristi Noem’s book. | The New Republic
• In praise of the student journalists covering university protests: “These outlets claim to be some of the most trustworthy names in news. They have millions of dollars to spend on reporting. But this week, they were all put to shame by journalists who haven’t even left college.” | The Nation
• “Some of London’s other provocative metaphors refine this case for the liberating potential of education.” On Jack London’s Martin Eden and the case for the liberal arts. | Aeon