TODAY: In 1788, Lord Byron is born.
- From board books to middle grade: ten great new children’s books out in January. | Lit Hub
- The cult of the hustle: why we all want to become our own boss. | Lit Hub
- “The decisions of people with zero experience in the deaf world shape the future of the deaf.” Moshe Kasher explores deaf history, language, and education as the hearing child of a deaf adult. | Lit Hub
- How witches shifted from daily healers to heretics and dangerous women under Christian rule. | Lit Hub
- Inspiration plus experimentation: Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards on the creative process behind music composition. | Lit Hub
- “The day after Jay committed suicide, Coral had a brunch date with her friends and did not cancel.” Read an excerpt from Venita Blackburn’s Dead in Long Beach, California. | Lit Hub
- “Children’s books are not for teaching or moralizing or philosophizing. (That’s what articles about children’s books are for!)” B.J. Novak considers Caps for Sale. | The Paris Review
- Masha Gessen on Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet and essayist, who died last week at 76. | The New Yorker
- “For generations, through wars, crisis, and political upheaval, documentary poets have helped make sense of some of our most difficult moments.” In partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Docupoetry explores what documentary poets are writing about today. | To the Best of Our Knowledge
- Kiley Reid talks to Rebecca Liu about American racism, education, and “seeing a socioeconomic situation[s] played out in a personal way.”| The Guardian
- Lincoln Michel on the difficulty of reviewing books. | Counter Craft
