“For farmers, it costs real dollars—and not just rivers of sweat and tears—to care for what they love: the land, their animals, their families.” Jennifer Acker onwriting rural life. | Lit HubCraft
Rolling Stone's first decade was truly rock and roll: chaotic, wild, and unpredictable. Brand New Beat charts the origins and evolution of the magazine during its formative early years in San Francisco.
Where doespublishing’s AI problemleave authors and readers? “We’re reaching this era of distrust, with no easy way to prove the veracity of your own writing.” | The New York Times
“Ondaatje’s whole career has tended toward this condition of late collection, of a memory that lacks a story, and sustains itself only on sensoria and images.”Ben Libman on Michael Ondaatje’s poetry. | Poetry
A landmark collection from Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date. Features 34 drawings by the artist Fi Jae Li.
“These characters don’t exactly ‘die’ when memed, but their innocence does, because that’s the whole point of the meme.”What the internet did to Snoopy.| Dirt
“Therapy changed me as a writer. I began noticing patterns in Lewis’s thinking, probably because once a week I was noticing different patterns in my own.”Craig Fehrman on looking for the human side of history. | Defector
“By embracing experimental language and exploring taboo subjects, she had posed a challenge to literary conventions in Turkey, one that still feels urgent and contemporary.” Kaya Genç on learning to writelike Leylâ Erbil. | The Point