THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1897, Jessie Catherine Couvreur dies.

Want to understand the Anthropocene? Look at what humanity has done with chickens. | Lit Hub Science

Mohammed Massoud Morsi explores how writing fiction about Palestinian lives allows “stories that would otherwise have disappeared into the chest of time” to live on. | Lit Hub Craft

Why your writing soundtrack matters : “The factor that seems to unite everyone is a sense of repetition—no matter the style, writers will play the same songs over and over again to reach a kind of creative trance.” | Lit Hub Craft

Lawrence Wright’s Redemption , Walter Mosley’s Hanging & Burning , Lisa Hanawalt’s I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex , and Blake J. Harris’s Emperor of Nothing: The Making of Larry David all feature among the best reviewed books of the week .…