Morning Coffee – 16 January 2018

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

1. Great Moments in ‘Shithole’ Literature (The Atlantic)
2. Rare Scraps of Paper Unearthed in the Sludge of Famed Pirate Ship (Smithsonian)
3. New App, Litlong, Lets You Take a Literary Tour of Edinburgh: Features 50,000 Book Excerpts (Open Culture)
4. How Kodak’s Shirley Cards Set Photography’s Skin-Tone Standard (NPR)
5. The Handmaid’s Tale Author Margaret Atwood Accused of Crimes Against Feminism for Defending Due Process (Reason)