TODAY: In 1796, Robert Burns dies.

• “Infused within that ethos was an understanding that humanity cannot be understood separately from its home, cannot act without acting upon that home.” Dheepa R. Maturi meditates on healing climate grief through ritual and reverence. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• The past and future of Malfada, Argentina’s iconic “Peanuts plus socialism” comic strip. | Lit Hub Art
• From Dickens to Dean Koontz, Ed Simon explores prolific authors, their habits, and the persistent need to produce. | Lit Hub Craft
• Ruthie Ackerman navigates writing about the aftermath of suicide in memoir: “We are everything that ever happened to us.” | Lit Hub Memoir
• Michael Grunwald on the cascading impact of ethanol production and how big agriculture misled the public about the benefits of biofuels. | Lit Hub Climate Change
• “The thing I’m furious about is also the thing I’m thankful for, and sometimes that makes me feel like a fucked-up person.” Read from Eloghosa Osunde’s new novel, Necessary Fiction. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Lincoln Michel dives into the latest anemic “state of the novel” discourse. | Counter Craft
• Rachel Kushner shares some of the books on the syllabus of her Stanford creative writing class. | The New Yorker  
• “Ironically accurate, the line stayed with me: The machine had articulated a crucial truth that we may not yet fully grasp.” On the (unfortunately) seductive forces of AI. | The New York Times
• How science fiction novels can help linguists unravel otherworldly languages. | Aeon
• Seo Jung Hak and Megan Sungyoon explore sanmunsi, the Korean prose poem. | Asymptote
• Jamieson Webster meditates on dreams, ashes,  and the structure of sacrifice. | The Paris Review

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