TODAY: In 1934, following its acquittal the previous month in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York. It has 12,000 advance sales
- Introducing “Am I the Literary Asshole?,” a new column in which Kristen Arnett judges your (bad) bookish behavior. | Lit Hub
- The revolutionary stranger: How Frantz Fanon put theory into practice. | Lit Hub Politics
- Danell Jones on what Virginia Woolf’s infamous “Dreadnought Hoax” tells us about ourselves. | Lit Hub
- Your annual reminder on how to properly celebrate Burns Night. | Lit Hub
- A long-lost memoir from a Holocaust survivor: read József Debreczeni’s account of a terrifying train ride from Hungary to Auschwitz. | Lit Hub History
- Revisiting Blacula: How America’s first Black cinematic vampire subverted stereotypes. | Lit Hub Film
- “I watch my brother through the small window as he coughs, his body retching with our mother’s disease.” Read from Christina Cooke’s new novel, Broughtupsy | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Think of it as a cousin of open-mindedness or a willingness to listen and carefully consider someone else’s truths.” Conversations on the power of intellectual humility. | JSTOR Daily
- Ben Lerner considers Ed Atkins’s Pianowork 2, “a sixteen-minute computer animation that involves an uncannily realistic digital avatar of Atkins playing Jürg Frey’s minimalist piano composition ‘Klavierstück 2.’” | NYRB
- “I needed the spectral company that these gifts summoned.” Leslie Jamison on the gifts that helped her survive her divorce. | The New York Times Magazine
- Clayton Childress and Dan Sinykin talk publishing in the age of conglomerates. | Public Books
- “Trans writers are living and writing in an era of hypervigilance, of having to fiercely protect ourselves from the world and the state. But in flash nonfiction, we can be sly.” Krys Malcolm Belc on trans flash and taking up space. | Brevity
