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- Who chooses the poems featured on the New York City subway? Meet the people behind Poetry in Motion. | Lit Hub Design
- Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur women artists in fiction. | Lit Hub Art
- Fake news, far-right propaganda, exaggerated crowd sizes, a squabbling left. Sound familiar? Welcome to 1930s Berlin. | Lit Hub History
- Tyrannosaurus rex (because you obviously want to know). | Lit Hub Science
- Enda O’Doherty on the assassination of iconic socialist Jean Jaurès, who tried to keep France out of World War I. | Lit Hub History
- What do Heliand and Beowulf have to do with the development of musical notation? “Today the lines look like prose, forming a continuous text with no hint of structure in the layout and no telltale end rhymes to interrupt the flow. But when you read them out loud a pattern begins to emerge.” | Lit Hub Music
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Chad Harbach, Jane Schoenbrun, Jonathan Van Meter and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein adapt poetry to the (illustrated) kitchen. | Lit Hub Humor
- “It took me a long time to grasp the shadowy nature of the literary world.” Read from Petra Hůlová’s The Long Version, translated by Alex Zucker. | Lit Hub Fiction
- So, how are books going? Colin Groundwater asked a bunch of book people. | GQ
- “The element of chance is what prevents us from filling in the gaps with the things we already expect to see.” Amelia Soth on Carlo Ginzburg’s archive roulette. | n+1
- Kevin Ng considers the music of Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night and Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita. | The Baffler
- Substack didn’t save the state of writing on the internet. It’s just adding to the attention economy. | The New Yorker
- How would you feel if you lost your Wikipedia page? Step inside the process of editing the world’s biggest encyclopedia. | Wired
- Ash Carter examines the earliest years of Tom Wolfe’s career. | Air Mail
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