- Is Shakespeare a literary writer? Or a genre writer? Lincoln Michel argues that these questions are moot. (Counter Craft)
- Sarah Jilani reminisces about what she learned from writing and reading fan fiction. (Electric Lit)
- Christian Thorsberg invites us to “Paws on Parchment,” an exhibit of cats in (and on) medieval manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. (Smithsonian)
- Charlie Jane Anders meditates on the proliferation of books about memory and shared histories and realities. (Reactor)
- Lance Traweek reports on a cool new amenity offered by the New Orleans East Hospital’s emergency department: a book vending machine. (New Orleans City Business)
- Darren Orf catches us up to speed on the rare discovery of a new language in what used to be the capital of the Hittite empire. (Popular Mechanics)
- Brittany Allen sums up the ludicrous decision by Texas A&M to ban Plato. (LitHub)
- Briallen Hopper writes in praise of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. (The New Republic)
- Kelly Jensen has her eye on more than a half dozen US book banning cases in this week’s censorship news. (Book Riot)
