Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: April 13 - 17, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
April 13 - 17, 2020

TODAY: In 1817, British writer George Henry Lewes, known for nurturing and encouraging the writing talent of lover Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), is born.
TODAY: In 1817, British writer George Henry Lewes, known for nurturing and encouraging the writing talent of lover Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), is born.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Kay Ryan on the preposterous beauty of Gerard Manley HopkinsJ.M.G. Le Clézio on the common good (and other people’s books • A letter from Beirut, by Lina Mounzer • Bonnie Tsui on why we swim • Alexandra Chang on learning from Lucia BerlinPoet Fred Shaw is going to miss New Orleans restaurant lifeThe best rain in literature • Mark Doty considers the question of homoeroticism in Walt Whitman’s poetryDrag queen Crystal Rasmussen on the secret language of make-up • On Yogi Berra's journey from rookie to ten-time championship winner • Phyllis Grant on what ballet does to your relationship with food • David Moloney offers a reading list of bad jobs in literature • Kerri Arsenault on life in a pandemic spring • Pwaangulongii Dauod’s portrait of the drowsy, sunlit world of Kaduna City • Amanda Leduc on creating accessibility in virtual literary spaces
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Writing about dementia means confronting readers’ fears • Dimitry Elias Léger’s coronavirus diary reveals the importance of the WHO • Jenny Odell and Wendy Liu discuss the radical power of liberating ourselves from usefulness • The most borrowed books in NYC during quarantine • Ru Freeman considers the relevance of the workshop • Ibtisam Barakat recommends books by five great Arab women writers • Ryan Ruby on the invisible militarization of daily life in America • Can you bring a tiny robot into an exclusive Austrian sanatorium? • On Mark Doty, Paul Lisicky, and the role of the self in memoir • The all-time great kids’ books by serious writers, from Hemingway to Woolf • Are basketball superstars more loyal to their teams, or sneaker companies? • Why has it always been so hard to treat the common cold? • Round five of our personalized quarantine book recommendations, for your ongoing isolation reading
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The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
The King's Beast by Eliot Patinson
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
José Saramago's Blindness, Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and more rapid-fire book recs from Max Porter • Godshot author Chelsea Bieker shares five books about coming of age in the West, from Janet Finch's White Oleander to Emma Cline's The Girls • A month of literary listening: AudioFile's best audiobooks of April • Because it's her birthday, a classic review of Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School • Paulette Jiles's Simon the Fiddler, Mark O'Connell's Notes from an Apocalypse, An Yu's Braised Pork, and Jed Pearl's Calder all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
NEW BOOKS FROM HARLEQUIN
Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
The Lost Orphan by Stacey Halls
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Darynda Jones celebrates ten great partnerships in crime series • Sheena Kamal looks at six social justice crime novels • Sarah Weinman introduces us to four women who edited crime fiction for decades and shaped a genre • Steven Wright on seven fictional con artists who swindled entire communities • Olivia Rutigliano rounds up all those classic detective series you’ve been meaning to read anyway • Grady Hendrix on 500 years of true crime • Mindy Mejia on financial crime in an infectious world • Molly Odintz on ten iconic series of the 1960s perfect for binge-reading • Megan Allen on crafting an animal rights thriller • This is the book that outsold Dracula in 1897 (it’s not very good)
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