The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1901, Mark Twain receives an honorary doctor of literature degree from Yale University.
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“The more Stoicism I read, the more I realized that FOMO has always been around.” How to deal with a no-so-modern problem. | Lit Hub Philosophy
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Allyson McCabe muses on Sinead O’Connor, misogyny, and the powerful ramifications of framing a story. | Lit Hub Biography
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Behind the scenes of a globemaker’s studio. | Lit Hub Art
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Why Anne Boleyn, second of King Henry VII’s six wives, captured our collective imagination. | Lit Hub History
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Curtis Chin on finding his voice while narrating his memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
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“I’m still looking at the ceiling. No flies anymore. I make some tea but forget to sip it. Now dust from the two explosions is settling on the couches, rug, and table.” Mosab Abu Toha writes from Gaza. | The New Yorker
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Laura Miller considers The Pigeon Tunnel, Errol Morris’s new documentary about John le Carré. | Slate
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Emily Wilson on the life and work of Edith Hamilton, “a retired Latin schoolteacher with limited formal education and almost no scholarly credentials [who became] one of the most influential “classicists” of the 20th century.” | The Nation
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Eve Bunting, author of more than 250 children’s books including Smoky Night and Spying on Miss Muller, has died at 94. | The New York Times
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“Deja vu. Doubling. Doppelgangers.” Lincoln Michel offers advice for evoking the eerie in fiction. | Counter Craft
Also on Lit Hub: Rosalynn Tyo on the new adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry • How some words do (or don’t) make it into print • Read from Tim O’Brien’s latest novel, America Fantastica
