TODAY: In 1928, Dorothy Parker reviews A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner in The New Yorker, writing that it made her throw up.
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“White supremacy is constructed and maintained by Black service work and by the extraction of a social performance of deference.” On Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, and the impact of Black labor unions on poetry. | Lit Hub Craft
Joshua Blackburn explores the long-standing mysteries behind words of unknown origin (like barf, say, or funk...). | Lit Hub History
“Eating in season is a deep and inspiring worldview that connects you to nature, to the bounty of the land around you, to the rhythm of your own life.” Alice Waters on why school lunches should be made with local ingredients (also, a chicken soup recipe!). | Lit Hub Food
From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they’re running from are their own…
Daedalus is searching for his son, Icarus, in the Underworld. Along the way, he’s confronted by the ghosts of King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. The memories they bring and the truth within them, might be too monstrous for him to bear.
Amber Tamblyn remembers Andrea Gibson, “that rare breed of writer whose deep compassion for the human condition was limitless, potent, and unequivocal.” | Poetry
