This Week in Literary History: Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Published — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 4, 1940, the day her debut novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published, 23-year-old Carson McCulle
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
The best everyday sandwich bread (that's secretly whole wheat!) — If you want a loaf that’s tall, tender, and packed with whole grains, there’s only one option: the Everyday Bread.
Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think — all the beans that's fit to spill
How to make your own wedding cake — If you do decide to go on this DIY-route, it’s imperative you know what to expect and have a game plan. Here’s a good place to start.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Colin Asher’s The Midnight Special, Hamilton Cain on Teddy Wayne’s The Au Pair, Michael Donkor on Keith Ridgway’s Dooneen, Stephen…
My Newly Successful Friend Won’t Stop Namedropping: Is She the Literary Asshole? — Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. Welcome back to the Internet’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I The Literary Asshole? It’s the place where we ponder all of life’s hardest-hitting…
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Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a Unicorn in the Practice of Translation — Soledad Acosta de Samper spoke English, traveled the world, wrote every day, and saved the newspaper clippings in which her novels appeared to turn them into albums. She married for love, had…
British Book Awards: Virginia Giuffre’s memoir wins top book prize — Nobody's Girl, published last year, detailed Giuffre's encounters with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Introducing the biggest new thing in sourdough baking — The Sourdough Sidekick is an automatic sourdough feeder that helps fit bread-baking into your schedule.
Best book deal: Save 78% on the Kindle version of A Parade of Horribles: Dungeon Crawler Carl — Princess Donut fan club here, reporting for duty.
Baker documented every time her croissants failed over a year, cross-referenced it with humidity and oven temp — the spreadsheet is somehow more useful than any cookbook I own.
BookRix - Eine Community für deine Stories — Bleibe in Kontakt mit Autor:innen, Leser:innen, Geschichten und allem, was dazugehört! Tritt BookRix bei, um zu entdecken, zu teilen und dich mit einer leidenschaftlichen Community von Geschichten Liebhaber:innen zu verbinden.
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
California county scam ad lawsuit adds to mounting Meta legal woes — Santa Clara accuses Meta of failing to regulate scam adds, months after landmark ruling against social media giants.
Christelle Dabos on Empathy, Doing Good, and How We Fill Ourselves Up — It’s Sunday morning, September 18, 2016. I spent the previous day signing books in Lille, in northern France. My head is still foggy. I am making myself a cup of hot chocolate when, at the exact mo…
Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel — Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—before the pandemic, before 2016, before the internet, before…
The secret to mixing macarons — You need to nail their light-as-air texture, crisp outer shell, and signature foot at the base. And doing so often comes down to how you mix the macaron batter, a technique known as macaronage.
How YouTube Filmmakers Are Reshaping Hollywood’s Talent Pipeline — YouTube creators are turning online audiences into big-screen opportunities, with filmmakers like Alex Kister moving from DIY horror videos to studio deals. As platforms, distributors and FAST services open new…
GitHub - anomalyco/models.dev: An open-source database of AI models. — An open-source database of AI models. Contribute to anomalyco/models.dev development by creating an account on GitHub.
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
Anne-Marie Slaughter — 'Unfinished Business.' Why women still can't have it all, and what we'd need to change. https://www.annemarieslaughter.com/
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on August 19, 2026 — You don't need a telescope to spot lunar features on the Moon.