TODAY: In 1928, the fourth and final section of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury takes place.
Michael Edison Hayden traces the origins of white supremacy group VDARE and explores how extremism can invade small town American. | Lit Hub Politics
“Marriage is, to my mind, the ability to contain two conflicting narratives and hold them in tension.” On writing a novel of marriage and adultery. | Lit Hub Craft
Jiyoung Han considers the power of fiction to bring historical atrocities to life: “When history fails us, it’s up to us to tell our stories, to bear witness to the stories of others.” | Lit Hub Criticism
How an economic and technological conspiracy contributed to the rising costs of childcare. | Lit Hub History
In the mood to read a great poem today? We recommend Elizander Espenschied’s “If Only We Had Medicine Like That Today.” | Lit Hub Poetry
“F. Scott Fitzgerald…[had] taken the American Dream—with all its contradictions—and written the story of an outsider.” Amin Ahmad puts his own immigrant twist on an American literary classic. | Lit Hub Craft
“SOMEWHERE THERE IS SUNSHINE AND SOMEWHERE ELSE THERE ARE THUNDERSTORMS AND FLOODS SOMEWHERE THERE IS SILENCE.” Read a poem by Mark Nowak from the collection, …Again. | Lit Hub Poetry
“Statistically, the most common days of the week to be fired are Monday or Friday.” Read from Rachel Wood’s novel, Annie Knows Everything. | Lit Hub Fiction
Kamram Javadizadeh considers Robert Frost as a poet of midlife. | The Yale Review
Patrick Radden Keefe and the creators of Industry talk writing about “London’s murkiest corners.” | Cultured
Rebecca Liu on why the death of the romcom is a distinctly American invention. | The Dial
Lorraine Daston revisits Albert O. Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests and considers the difference between monograph and historical essay. | Public Books
“Distinguishing the world from simulations of the world, the virtual from the real—it’s a tough job for anyone, let alone for those of us who spend our lives writing texts in the service of ‘expression’ or ‘creativity.’” Maggie Millner on Ben Lerner’s Transcription. | n+1
Why movements need critical thinking (and how AI threatens to destroy it). | Jacobin
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