TODAY: In 1824, the writer John Murray, alongside 5 of Lord Byron‘s pals and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron’s memoirs, fearing the scandalous particulars will harm Byron’s popularity. 

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• Leah Litman explains the authorized theories weaponized by conservative justices (or, does the Supreme Courtroom simply run on vibes now?) | Lit Hub Politics
• “The killing of the NEA feels just like the final little little bit of the top of American tradition, and it’s the final little little bit of voices of true resistance. All that’s left is content material created for an algorithm {that a} company wrote.” Kaitlyn Greenidge on the tragedy of Trump’s gutting of the NEA. | Harper’s Bazaar
• Jeremiah David reads—and lives—Tenting on Low or No {Dollars} (aka The Information). | The Paris Evaluation
• “How does Trump perpetuate the defective logic of IQ exams and monitoring? By suggesting that individuals with disabilities don’t belong within the workforce.” Pepper Stetler traces the eugenicist roots of IQ testing. | Los Angeles Evaluation of Books
• Mira Ptacin on educating writing in jail and the devastating penalties of Trump’s anti-trans insurance policies: “They declared Maine out of compliance with ‘company priorities’. The punishment: minimize funding, and never simply any funding, however applications that labored.” | The Guardian
• What even is shut studying? Dan Sinykin considers. | The Nation 
• Megan Fritts examines the success (and futility) of creating pointers for the usage of AI in academia. | The Level
• “Disgrace on the White Home. Disgrace on those that needs to be stopping this slide into autocracy and aren’t.” George Saunders responds to Trump’s firing of librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. | The New York Instances
• … and Trump’s makes an attempt at taking on the Library of Congress are much more harmful than we thought. | Rolling Stone
• John Garrison revisits Percival Everett’s Wounded. | Public Books
• Tessa Hulls on her Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts. | Seattle Instances
• Timothy Aubry returns to the books he liked as “an aspiring mental”—often known as “the white male middlebrow canon.” | The Level
• David Richardson, the brand new appearing administrator of FEMA, can also be dangerous at writing novels. | The New Republic
• Kaitlyn Greenidge revisits Erika Kennedy’s prescient hip-hop satire, Bling. | Harper’s Bazaar
• Rosie Stockton and Rachel Kushner converse about surprising journeys, apocalyptic poetry, and the character of affection. | Interview
• “Among the trainings got by explicitly pro-AI organizations and authors, and organizations backed by tech corporations.” Faculties have been by no means geared up, it seems, to cope with AI. | 404 Media

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