TODAY: In 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson‘s novella An Old Song, his first published work of fiction, begins appearing anonymously in the magazine London.
- Fiona Warnick talks to Sheila Heti about AI, writing for children, and the negotiation of public and private selves. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How much can—or should—we know about our literary idols? Anna Funder on George Orwell and real life doublethink. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I’d always figured that my preference for the past and the future is one of the reasons I’m drawn to writing fiction.” What breaking seven ribs taught Jane Pek about writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- Elaine Equi on blankness: “As a naturally spacey person, I’m fascinated by how many different kinds of blankness there are.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Emma Copley Eisenberg talks to Paul Lisicky about Joni Mitchell and the relationship between songwriting and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Craft
- Riley Black chronicles migratory patterns and the changing of the seasons through a mastodon’s eyes. | Lit Hub Science
- Michel Pastoureau on the history and evolution of the color pink. | Lit Hub Art
- “Flat out and hot boiling, centre of the mat. Ring Ring. Somewhere here. But far near or far off?” Read from Eimear McBride’s novel, The City Changes Its Face. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Gene Scheer on adapting Moby-Dick as an opera. | The Paris Review
- “When someone dies, the rational person is expected to close the curtain on that relationship and move on.” On the ghostly business of (artificially) reviving the dead. | Aeon
- How playwrights are responding to AI: “When I mention to Gasda that it seems like his characters are ducking the consequences of building AI, he says that was intentional.” | Wired
- Lessons from Edward Gorey, in honor of his 100th birthday. | The New Yorker
- “Like most narratives of violence, rape stories tend to clot in the fissure between the aberrant and the banal.” Jamie Hood on Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and post-#MeToo narratives. | Bookforum
- Haley Mlotek and Jia Tolentino talk about gossip, longing, and love stories. | Interview
