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“The King of the Beats has always attracted a fair amount of attention from collectors—especially since his passing in 1969.” The history of Jack Kerouac’s posthumous manuscript sales. | Lit Hub Criticism
“When we reach across a divide—to listen, to share our common humanity, we remember the glue that binds us.” The community-building power of a single cup of tea. | Lit Hub Food
“During a January thaw, water trickled from a burst pipe down an interior wall, into a basement storage closet, and ruined all of Dora’s wedding dresses.” Read from Louise Erdrich’s new collection, Python’s Kiss. | Lit Hub Fiction
NEW BOOKS FROM GRAYWOLF PRESS
Check out new releases from Graywolf Press, including Questions 27 & 28 by Karen Tei Yamashita, Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza (translated by Christina MacSweeney), Hide by Carolina Ebeid, and more.
A fun new side effect of mass AI adoption: some people (including, disproportionately, non-native English speakers) are being falsely accused of using it to write. | New York Magazine
“Institutions, by design, seek to flatten us.” On autism, institutions, and the cost of thriving. | Dirt
During the Paris Commune, France’s National Printing House repurposed the same fonts once used by kings and emperors for the workers. | Jacobin
“Is life worth living? Yes—I have more Laxness to read.” On the rich oeuvre of Halldór Laxness. | Asymptote
Namwali Serpell talks to Nicholas Russell about Toni Morrision, the artist: “The reason that marginalized writers, in particular women and black people, get overwhelmed or occluded by their own stature is traceable to the origins of their writing, their literature.” | Defector
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