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• Lee Cole recollects being a working class author attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class views in our literary establishments. | Lit Hub Craft
• “E-book ban circumstances have ramped up in recent times, and judges are flying blind, persevering with to make guidance-free rulings.” Why Little v. Llano County threatens the already imperiled freedom to learn in America. | Lit Hub Politics
• “Her presence alone can rework a tune right into a drama.” Jan Gradvall sits down with ABBA’s iconic lead singer, Agnetha Fältskog. | Lit Hub Music
• Ira Wells on the emergence of a contemporary guide censorship motion in Pensacola, Florida: “Many board positions weren’t hotly contested, and virtually anybody might present up at a faculty board assembly and command their 5 minutes of airtime.” | Lit Hub Libraries
• “The enormity of local weather change generates a conceptual boundlessness that may outstrip any single author’s capability for inventiveness.” Keith Woodhouse considers the way forward for local weather fiction. | Public Books
• (Physician-writer) Danielle Ofri explores the lengthy custom of doctor-writers. | The New Yorker
• The apocalyptic relevance of C.F. Ramuz’s Into the Solar after a century. | 3:AM 
• Aaron Rosenberg revisits The Inheritors, an obscure sci-fi novel co-written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, which presaged Trump’s obsession with Greenland. | Jacobin
• “It’s a survival software, a spot of fantasy, a report on actuality, and a utopia, multi function.” David Grundy explores Ted Joans’ revolutionary, surrealist poetry. | Poetry
• Merve Emre seems to be at the historical past of recommendation columns: “Greater than every other style of public speech, recommendation brings strangers into scenes of intimate alternate.” | The New Yorker 
• “Offense has develop into so giant and so accepted part of our response to artwork that it could actually typically appear we’ve endowed it with unimpeachable authority.” Garth Greenwell on studying by way of dangerous emotions. | The Yale Assessment
• “For others, nevertheless, the old school, perfect type of studying—intense, prolonged, beginning-to-end encounters with rigorously crafted texts—has develop into virtually anachronistic.” Joshua Rothman on what studying has develop into within the age of AI. | The New Yorker
• And on prime of every thing else, the semicolon is in decline. | Smithsonian Journal
• “Few have cared so deeply for the poor or taken the hunt to each know and dwell out fact extra severely.” Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism. | JSTOR Each day
• “If we worth the medication the land gives us so generously, we should develop into medication for the land.” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the dear forest pharmacy of the Adirondacks. | Orion
• Authors are taking to TikTok to show they aren’t utilizing generative AI. | Wired

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