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TODAY: In 1923, Nella Larsen graduates from the NYPL’s Library School and becomes the first professionally trained Black librarian.

How Jane Austen subverted the kind of romance she mastered by writing Emma. | Lit Hub Criticism

Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways women writers arrange the balance between creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft

Why do our public institutions struggle with trash? “Waste management as we know it has largely developed in opposition to municipal practices.” | Lit Hub Politics