🔖📚 Read Friendship Is My Writing Process by Ana Hein (Electric Literature).

I love this. I’ve been thinking about writing a lot lately, and this really resonates with me.

🔖📚 Read Public libraries in TX, LA, and MS are no longer protected by the First Amendment.

This is disheartening as can be and I don’t have the eloquence to explain all the ways it’s terrible.

🔖 Read W.E.B. Du Bois’s Remarkable Data Visualizations in Jillian Hess’s newsletter, Noted.

It’s thrilling to see how DuBois established practices for both data collection and data visualization that continue to be critical in the social sciences today.

🔖 Read Monster or victim?: The fascination of Hedda Gabler, the ‘female Hamlet’ who divides opinion by Miriam Balanescu (BBC).

Why not both?

🔖 Read What’s next after the historic No Kings protest? by Daniel Hunter (Waging Non-violence).

Reading about defections gives me hope.

🔖 Read No, you don’t need to optimize your morning routine.

This post from Fenn Priest is a gift. I’m so glad Katy Peplin linked it in her newsletter.

🔖 Read The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story.

This is a super interesting read about comparative mythology. I had to borrow The New Yorker from my library in the Libby app to read it.

🔖📚 Read The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist.

Book heist! Fascinating stuff!

🔖📚 Read A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries.

In New Braunfels ISD, middle and high school libraries will be closed for an indefinite amounts of time while books are reviewed. Read the article for suggestions on how to defend the freedom to read in Texas.

🔖📚 Read To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe by Ed Simon (Literary Hub).

I love that Simon is able to draw lines from Poe’s work to his burial, from his burial to his exhumation, to multiple author’s taphephobia to Barthes and the death of the author.