🔖📚 Read A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline by Ellen O’Connell Whittet (Literary Hub).

…the line at a well-stocked bookstore in a prosperous coastal city is not the same thing as a reading culture, and we should be careful not to mistake one for the other.

🔖📚 Read In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” by Samantha Silva (Literary Hub)

In the Dashwood family and in my family, it sometimes feels like the older sister feels like she has to be Sense so she can hold space for the younger sister to be Sensibility.

🔖📚📝 Read A Deaf Manifesto on Motherhood (Electric Literature).

A great interview with Sara Nović about her book Mother Tongue, parenting, and writing.

🔖 Read My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi by Carli Cutchin (Electric Literature).

I love this essay.

🔖 Read You Can’t Uncast a Spell by Holli Flanagan (Electric Literature).

I haven’t seen Wicked: For Good. This is an interesting and poignant analysis of the changes it makes from the ending of the stage show.

🔖 Read Attempting to Garden My Way Out of Sadness by Geetha Iyer (Electric Literature).

This is a gorgeous essay.

🔖🧶Read How Crocheting Is Bringing Me Back To Myself by Emily McGowan (The Good Trade).

This is a beautiful article about crafting not just beloved items, but our very lives.

🔖 Read The Trump administration is illegally gutting NASA’s largest research library. by Brittany Allen (Literary Hub).

Read the article. Stand up for science every day, but especially March 7.

🔖📚 Read Arkansas Puts Complete Ban on Incoming Books, Magazines, Other Materials for Incarcerated Individuals.

I just signed decARcerate’s statement calling for the reversal of this ban and you can, too, even if you don’t live in Arkansas.

🔖📚📝 Read Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs by Ed Simon (Literary Hub)