TODAY: In 1909, Katherine Mansfield, at this time pregnant by another man, marries singing teacher George Bowden in London, leaving him the same evening to resume her relationship with Ida Baker.
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“Over the years, though, I noticed that some of those people would start thinking about politics only after something happened to them, or to someone they loved.” Virginia Marshall discussesart, repression and exile with Svetlana Satchkova, author of The Undead. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“Bess Pfeiffer didn’t mean to start anything when she walked into Honey Finnegan’s house with seven copies of The Joy of Sex. She thought it would be fun.” Read from Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s new novel, Lake Effect. | Lit Hub Fiction
SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING INSTITUTE
Let Paris inspire you this summer and come join us at AUP’s Summer Creative Writing Institute. With workshops on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, students can work deeply on issues of craft, all while enjoying the City of Light.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology supports authors whose writing explores science and technology for a general audience. Sloan salutes the authors whose books were published in 2025.
“You watch what you wear, think twice about what you say, here as anywhere. This is how empires collapse.” Siddhartha Deb’s memoir of disenchantment, from Calcutta to Columbia. | Equator
Joy Williams on the “fragile, ghost-haunted, unironic, unthrifty, reliant, romantic, intermittently animistic, and decidedly non-avant-garde” temperament of Rilke. | New York Review of Books
“I cheat on one book with another book, and then I cheat on that book when another book catches my wandering eye. I am a bookanizer.” On the joys of being a chaotic reader. | Defector
Jamieson Webster on Hélène Cixous’s novel, Angst: “To be a recognizable and representable person is a forced choice, enacted in enormous angst, and which brings with it a heavy price.” | The Paris Review
