- I love this illustrated essay by Erin Davis about how male and female bodies are described in fiction. (The Pudding)
- Olivia Rutigliano responds to the #ReclaimHerName initiative. (LitHub)
- Hey folks, please don’t keep your quarantine beer stash at the library. (Boing Boing)
- Katherine Rooney shares her favorite narrators…that happen to not be human. (LitHub)
- So it turns out that the best way to help kids improve their literacy skills…is to give them lots of interesting things to read—as reported by Natalie Wexler. (The Atlantic)
- I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to come up with a definitive number of words English has because we just keep making up new ones. (Merriam-Webster Blog)
- Are these stories, proposed by Emily Temple, the most iconic short stories in English? (LitHub)
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Loved the LitHub piece, though it is probably taking the whole thing a bit to seriously
Possibly. I don’t know enough about the authors on the list to have an intelligent opinion about this. On the one hand, we’ve “reclaimed” the Brontë sisters’ names and the names of many Victorian women writers. But with George Eliot and George Sand, I thought these women owned their “masculine” literary identities?