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

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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.

Fairy tales and facts: Siri Hustvedt on how we read in a pandemic. | Lit Hub Literary Criticism
“In art, as in life, there is nothing accidental.” Translator Richard Pevear on the stories of Chekhov. | Lit Hub On Translation
“Plants helped to rid her of desire altogether; helped her to become less starved and more contemplative.” Damon Young on Colette’s life in the garden. | Lit Hub History
Parul Sehgal on Chekhov's early stories, Annalisa Quinn on Mark O'Connell's apocalypse journey, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
Sara Sligar celebrates the new generation of California crime writers exploring the intersection of race, class, gender, and community. | CrimeReads
“We were not as healthy as we thought we were.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on Covid-19 and the myth of American greatness. | The New York Times
Why are some readers turning to Mrs. Dalloway as a quarantine read? | The New Yorker
“I can solve nothing, I can save no one, but dammit, I can mail Patrick a copy of The Night Watchman.” Ann Patchett on running Parnassus Books in lockdown. | The Guardian
Eight female novelists on what books are reassuring them right now. | Vogue
“A person in my state of health should not have such miseries to bear": Quarantine correspondence from John Keats. | Lapham's Quarterly
What fiction gets right—and wrong—about pandemics. | Mel Magazine
Samantha Irby's favorite books include titles by Gillian Flynn and Hanif Abdurraqib. | Vulture
Italian writers are rushing to publish books about coronavirus. | The New York Times
“Only The Secret Garden has held my attention. Only The Secret Garden takes place in a universe I recognize.” One writer on the book that’s getting her through the quarantine. | The Paris Review
After Republican Senator Thom Tillis raised questions about the legality of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library, its founder Brewster Kahle defended the organization. | Publishers Weekly
If you haven’t given up on homeschooling, here are the best and worst workbooks for kids. | The Washington Post
“Has the virus started the Night of the Living Karens?” Jennifer Weiner on the seductive appeal of pandemic shaming. | The New York Times
“How fragile and rare our ordered structures are, our fictions, and how precious.” Charles Yu on the illusions the pandemic has shattered. | The Atlantic
“Think of all the things you hope will still be there in that castle of the future when we get across. Then do what you can, now, to ensure the future existence of those things.” Margaret Atwood on what to do now. | TIME
Crowdfunding, layoffs, Zoom events: if there was ever an indie bookstore “renaissance,” the coronavirus has ensured that it is over. | New Republic

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Kay Ryan on the preposterous beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins • J.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 Berlin • Poet Fred Shaw is going to miss New Orleans restaurant life • The best rain in literature • Mark Doty considers the question of homoeroticism in Walt Whitman’s poetry • Drag 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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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

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