Lit Hub Daily: February 22, 2017
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TODAY: In 1901, Leo Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.
- When writing a biography becomes a race against death. | Literary Hub
- Among the bones of the Badlands, a paleontologist contemplates the end of days. | Literary Hub
- Librarians in the 21st Century: in this nation of laws, access to a law library is more important now than ever. | Literary Hub
- Gabrielle Bellot on the end of Milo and the transphobia that will linger. | Literary Hub
- 8 uniquely weird writing residencies you may or may not want to apply to. | Literary Hub
- A lost Walt Whitman novel—a “quasi-Dickensian tale of an orphan’s adventures”—has been rediscovered after 165 years. | The New York Times
- A reading list of books, articles, criticism, and poetry that “demand a critical assessment of American culture” and demonstrate how we arrived where we are now. | Jezebel
- On the importance of teaching historical fiction in a “political moment that summons the label ‘unprecedented’ at about the same rate as the number of historical analogies stirred up by the Trump election.” | The Atlantic
- Before there were charming dictionary Twitters, there was John Simpson: On Simpson’s memoir of 37 years spent at the OED during “a period of unprecedented change.” | Public Books
- Yiyun Li selects 14 books that are important to her, from Persuasion to Elbow Room. | Read it Forward
- Make America read again: How librarians are continuing the tradition of “using their professional skills to support civilian resistance.” | Broadly
- Tom Hanks, a man of many talents and, apparently, interests, has written a collection of 17 short stories centered around typewriters. | Entertainment Weekly
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