Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: June 15 - 19, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
June 15 - 19, 2020

TODAY: In 1903, Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild begins serialization in the Saturday Evening Post.
TODAY: In 1903, Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild begins serialization in the Saturday Evening Post.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Read an excerpt from Ralph Ellison's posthumously published novel, Juneteenth • “This’ll hurt me more.” A poem by Camille T. Dungy • Tara Isabella Burton presents a reading list on the search for deeper meaning in times of despair • Garrett Peck on a(nother) decade from hell: the first of the 21st century • Is Ball Four the greatest baseball memoir ever written? On the role of scientific data in climate literature • Letter from Houston: Daniel Peña on the Black and Brown voices bringing light to America • How Lit Hub editor and debut novelist Emily Temple learned to stop worrying and love the list • Chris Green on creating a collective poem in response to Chicago gun violence—with 100 poets’ voices • Sanaë Lemoine finds lessons in solitude from French cinema • Willow Curry on the relationship between art and action • Let us now praise Juliet Stevenson, brilliant audiobook narrator • Documenting ten days in New York during the Black Lives Matter protests: a photo essay by Rachel Cobb • Stephen Rebello, in praise of Valley of the Dolls, irresistible trainwreck • Readings in Black history and joy, from Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Robin Coste Lewis, Fred Moten, and more  Aaron Robertson: thinking of Black families, together and apart, on Juneteenth • Harmony Holiday on America’s history of policing Black music • Laura Briggs on America’s long history of imprisoning children • In which Irina Dumitrescu manages to vanquish pandemic distraction long enough to write about it 
The Lightness by Emily Temple
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Geek LoveThe Secret HistoryGiovanni's Room, and more rapid-fire book recs from The Lightness author Emily Temple • Sheila Kohler recommends five short novels with water at the heart of the drama, from The Talented Mr. Ripley to Lord of the Flies • Each of these five acclaimed audiobook narrators has received AudioFile's Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award • Animorphs, JK Rowling, Deacon King Kong, and more bantered about in The Week in Books LIVE • New titles from Joseph O'Connor, Emily Temple, Max Brooks, and Paul Preston all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Marlowe Benn on the feminist mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun • June’s best debut crime and mystery fiction • Lee Randall on the history of Perry Mason and his restless creator • Shane Mawe on the mostly forgotten Irish mystery writer at the center of Golden Age detective fiction • Olivia Rutigliano celebrates Flavia de Luce and the English village mystery • Molly Odintz rounds up 10 physicians who also write crime fiction • Gerard Koeppel with the high-seas murder that baffled the world • India’s most celebrated film director was also a bestselling crime novelist • Chris McGinley on Virginia Kellogg, the forgotten screenwriter behind a string of classic noirs • Sarah Weinman asks, can you really celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s work from his life?
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