Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: May 4 - 8, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
May 4 - 8, 2020

TODAY: In 1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is published.
TODAY: In 1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is published.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
20 artists’ visions of Alice's adventures in Wonderland • Kristen Millares Young on the long fight to decolonize book research • Samanta Schweblin on writer’s block, The Twilight Zone, and the “rebel commonplace” of writing any time or place • Sheila Heti, Noreen Khawaja, and Clare Carlisle discuss Kierkegaard, authenticity, and how to be a human • Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on the idea of home in a time of pandemic • PSA: there exists a made-for-TV movie version of To the Lighthouse starring baby Kenneth BranaghManuel Muñoz introduces the late H.G. Carrillo’s novel Loosing My Espanish • A reading list of sociopaths in literature, from Tom Ripley to Fagin • Chester Johnson on his grandfather’s participation in the Elaine Race Massacre of 1919 • Mary Hawthorne on the object lessons of Annie Ernaux's The Years • What pop stars can teach writers about failure • Paulette Jiles recommends a little post-apocalyptic sci-fi escapism • Erika Wurth on the literature of Native sovereignty • David Searcy looks to the stars under lockdownBringing together kaleidoscopic plots: A reading list from Anna Solomon • A poem by John Freeman • Aimee Knight on raising a family of Sea-Monkeys during a global pandemic • Rebecca Solnit remembers Michael McClure, poet, teacher, friend • In honor of MOTHER’S DAY this Sunday, consider the magic and mundanity of motherhood: Melanie Abrams on the heartbreaking mysteries of encountering your child’s experience of the world · Mira Ptacin explains how Harry Houdini became the champion of Mother’s Day · Gabriela Weiner on first hearing the manic rhythm of her baby’s heart
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Devoted by Dean Koontz
While the Music Played by Nathaniel Lande
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Edgar Allan Poe's stories, The Secret HistoryA Visit From the Good Squad, and more rapid-fire book recs from Angie Kim • Kept Animals author Kate Milliken recommends five novels born from the mother-child bond, from Cristina Henríquez's The Book of Unknown Americans to Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays • Geek LoveThe Velveteen RabbitThe House on Mango Street, and more rapid-fire book recs from Kali Fajardo-Anstine • The Week in Books: Pulitzers, Lovecraft, and Guns N' Roses vs. Bill Clinton • New titles by Emma Straub, Samanta Schweblin, Percival Everett, and Jennifer Weiner all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Kid Quixotes by Stephen Haff
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Even more personalized quarantine recommendations (crime fiction edition) • My first thriller: Michael Connelly talks The Black Echointerviewed by Rick Pullen • Scott Kenemore on cosmic horror and life’s greatest mysteries • Kimberly McCreight searches for the elusive “good marriage” in crime fiction • Guy Fraser-Sampson celebrates the queens of Golden Age detective fiction • Lis Regan recommends 10 riveting reads filled with shocking secrets • Jordan Harper lays out the cornerstones of rural noir • Wendy Lesser goes on a pilgrimage to Kurt Wallander’s Ystad • Ramsay Campbell knows that having kids can change your life—and your horror fiction • Ray Leigh reads Camus’ The Plague in the midst of a London lockdown
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