TODAY: In 1852, the 1st edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus published. 

• Andrew Holter on executorship, archives, and resurrecting Murray Kempton, a forgotten American journalist. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Matt Stevens reimagines his favorite movies as vintage book covers. | Lit Hub Art
• Elisabeth Dini on the decades-long legal battles to recover World War II’s stolen and looted artworks. | Lit Hub History
• Titles by Sophie Gilbert, Craig Thompson, and more are among the 24 new books out today! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Nin Andrews on the pains and rewards of writing a memoir about her father: “By the time I was born, my parents were no longer interested in parenting.” | Lit Hub Memoir
• Shelby Van Pelt remembers her first writing class, shares her love of music, and explains why she wants her grandmother’s friends to read her books. | Lit Hub Craft
• “All these stories are inspired by everyday life and many contemporary emotions. I feel they’re slightly dystopian, but not too much.” Guadalupe Nettel discusses capturing the surreal in the day to day. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “Joan stopped at a gas station in Waco to change into her rodeo clothes—a skintight black minidress, turquoise earrings with dangling black feathers, and black cowboy boots.” Read from Ashley Whitaker’s novel, Bitter Texas Honey. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Jill Lepore recommends 100 classic books for 100 days of the Trump administration. | The New Yorker
• Soham Gadre revisits Joan Micklin Silver’s film Between the Lines, an homage to print media. | Jacobin
• Geoffery Mak examines “Man of the West,” Ryonosuke Akutagawa’s final works. | The Paris Review
• Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng considers self-translation between Vietnamese and English. | Asymptote
• Daniel Lavery wants to know what’s going on with book festivals and the power of storytelling. | The Chatner
• Maddalena Poli on why pre-modern Chinese literature is in. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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