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TODAY: In 1 926 , C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time.

Lilian Pizzichini searches for the Elsa Schiaparelli dress from Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. | Lit Hub Art

“In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very old human narrative tradition rooted in our craving for catharsis.” What the Kardashians have in common with the WWE. | Lit Hub Criticism

Lerone Martin chronicles the day a teenage Martin Luther King Jr. confronted Jim Crow by rail. | Lit Hub History

Christiana Spens maps out the literary islands that inspired her novel , The Colony . | Lit Hub Craft

When Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz went to Buenos Aires : “He said that walking off the ship that afternoon holding his two cases, trying to understand what he had just done, was the most tragic moment of his life.” | Lit Hub Biography

This week in literary history, Mrs Dalloway is first published (and yes, she did say she’d buy the flowers herself).…