- Maris Kreizman has thoughts about publishing and quantity over quality. (LitHub)
- Tony Tulathimutte asks why there aren’t more stories about romantic rejection. (The Paris Review)
- Molly Templeton seeks books for everyone. (Reactor)
- Joanne Silberner wonders what books like Until August can tell us about authors with cognitive declines. (Undark)
- Did you know that a teenage Emily Dickinson collected plants? (OpenCulture)
- Philip Eil explores the fraught process of promoting books about trauma and true crime. (LitHub)
- Maggie Angst reports on the need for more/better security for public library staff. (San Francisco Chronicle via MSN)
- Emily Howes compares writing fiction to psychotherapy. (LitHub)
- Karin Wulf reflects on how archival materials “shout” or are “silent,” and what this means for scholarship. (Perspectives on History)
- Aiden Moher looks into the small scandal around publisher Angry Robot’s floating the idea of using AI to review submissions. (Astrolabe)
- Nicholas Shakespeare recounts the time Ian Fleming went to the Soviet Union. (LitHub)
- The American Library Association lists the ten most banned and challenged books of 2023.
- …and your weekly helping of censorship news, courtesy of Book Riot.
