TODAY: In 1915, Arthur Miller is born.
Cundill Prize Finalist Kathleen DuVal recommends essential books for understanding Native American history by David Treuer, Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Are you the asshole if you’re annoyed by a writer friend who doesn’t actually write? Kristen Arnett answers this and other awkward literary questions. | Lit Hub Craft
Rae Garringer talks to Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee about queer Appalachian life. | Lit Hub Biography
Helen Castor on what the story of Richard II and Henry IV can, centuries later, still teach us about power. | Lit Hub History
“Melania is one of the flattest, most abstract, and least revealing accounts of a life that I’ve probably ever read.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
“My writing process didn’t match that of an academic researcher or a journalist, and it was hard to write a grant proposal without feeling like I was making things up.” Marian Crotty on how her queer fiction was shaped by a research trip to South Dakota. | Lit Hub Travel
Bruna Dantas Lobato recommends books about making a home in a new country, including work by Ayşegül Savaş, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Ananda Lima, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
On the unique challenges of writing biographies of women: “…it takes an intentional way of looking in order to see the facts that add up to a different, buried truth.” | Lit Hub Craft
“Between the ages of eight and nine, I set out to find the pit of the dead.” Read from Domenico Starnone’s novel The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan, translated by Oonagh Stransky. | Lit Hub Fiction
“Bookstores are places that can interrupt the flow of publishing’s culture industry by showcasing books that customers might not otherwise see.” Dan Sinykin considers Evan Friss’ new history of American bookstores. | The Baffler
Justina Elias, a former employee at Munro’s Books, grapples with the fairytale, and the reality, of Alice Munro’s legacy. | The Walrus
Shelton Stromquist and James R. Barrett consider David Montgomery’s writing on labor as essential reading. | Jacobin
Rachael Z. DeLue on Charles Darwin’s “Tree of Life,” the only illustration in On the Origin of Species. | Broadsheet
“This place that I returned to throughout my adult life as often as I was driven away.” Wiam El-Tamami recalls lives lived in Egypt, Palestine, and Berlin. | AGNI
A conversation between Sally Rooney and Merve Emre: “Loving the novel is a bit like a rebellious love, like a teenager’s reaction to their parents’ love.” | The Paris Review
