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TODAY: In 2006, journalist , author, and activist Jane Jacobs dies.

Caroline Bicks unearths the word “clitter” and other wild discoveries while reading the first draft of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary . | Lit Hub Criticism

“Possibly the greatest lesson I got from the zine is that writing is about community.” How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist. | Lit Hub Craft

Why do we hate the word moist ? Science may actually have an answer. | Lit Hub History

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff investigate how (and when) Elon Musk took his hard turn to the right . | Lit Hub Politics

“If we can’t have the nineties back, we can build a life of things that might feel transportative.” Hanif Abdurraqib considers our nostalgic longing for inconvenience . | The New Yorker

Tim Requarth dives into the AI writing panic —and wonders if it obscures a larger issue. | Slate

What happens when newsrooms get into the prediction market game .…