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TODAY: In 1950, the film noir Gun Crazy is released in the United States. Co-writer Dalton Trumbo is billed under Millard Kaufman’s name because of the former’s appearance on the Hollywood blacklist.
- It can be very hard to find a book that both you and your child enjoy… Which is why we created the Toddler Tolerability Index. | Lit Hub
- Author as illusionist: William Maxwell on literary magic and refusing to give up as a writer. | Lit Hub Craft
- In praise of all the literary mean girls: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong recommends Mona Awad, Kirthana Ramisetti, Anna Bogutskaya, and more. | Lit Hub
- How doctors treated diabetes before insulin therapy: Gary Taubes on the history of diet-based remedies for chronic illness. | Lit Hub Health
- “Self-Portrait as Sister.” A poem by Ae Hee Lee. | Lit Hub Poetry
- The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is reading now and next. | Lit Hub
- “Can’t dance. Has no rhythm at all. Used to find it adorable until I saw people laughing at her and hate to say I was embarrassed.” Read from Dolly Alderton’s new novel, Good Material. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!, Adam Shatz’s The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, and Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ The Bullet Swallower all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “By constructing her own mythology, and especially by refusing to let her lover (and readers) in, she makes her own life a work of art.” Victoria Baena considers the afterlives of Proust’s Albertine. | The Yale Review
- Five Palestinian writers living in the US reflect on the state of Palestinian life now. | The Nation
- “For the first time, the public will have the chance to think deeply about the birds we love and come up with new things to call them.” On the changing world of bird names! | Slate
- Inside the Copyright Office, “a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress,” which is conducting a first-of-its-kind review of copyright law in the age of artificial intelligence. | The New York Times
- Barnes & Noble is planning to open a store in the Hamptons, and the Hamptons are not happy about it. | Curbed
