Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: July 20 - 24, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
July 20 - 24, 2020

TODAY: In 1834, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies.
TODAY: In 1834, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies.
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What 100 writers have been reading in quarantine • Duende Books’ Angela Maria Spring on the institutional racism of the bookselling industry • Rachel Cohen on Jane Austen’s politics of walking • Lydia Davis on the decision to not fly • Guy Guratne on John Berger and writing as an act of distancing • How to write a timely novel in a world that won’t stop changing • Arra Lynn Ross on old Norse translations and decoding myths • Joshua Bennett on the places where Black life is lived • How will future Mars explorers deal with the most challenging thing about life on the Red Planet? (Boredom) • Jarvis Masters writes from death row in San Quentin as Covid-19 spreads unchecked • Why did Republicans abandon American idealism? • On techno as a cure for writer's block • Siri Hustvedt, in contemplation of a photograph by Rachel Cobb, on what the world values when it's falling apart • Frank Tallis takes the anthropological view of storytelling • Oliver Stone reflects on bringing the spirit of Homer’s epics to the screen in Platoon • How John Steinbeck’s final novel grappled with immigration and morality • A love letter to developmental editors • Catherine Lacey talks to Kristin Iversen about religion, alienation, and more • Lucie Britsch on learning her most important writing lesson from... Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure • Aya Gruber examines the complicated history of feminism’s impact on incarceration • Historian Alan Taylor wonders whether Thomas Jefferson was a hero or villain... (Both, and neither) 
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Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Garth Greenwell's Cleanness, and more rapid-fire book recs from Chia-Chia Lin • Debra Jo Immergut recommends five books that bend and fold time, from Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills to Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing • "In our own grief-ridden time, we may never need O’Farrell’s art more": Lori Feathers on the novels of Maggie O'Farrell • From the archives: Eudora Welty's rave review of Charlotte's Web • New titles from Maggie O'Farrell, Catherine Lacey, Emma Donoghue, and Adrian Tomine all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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It’s time to rediscover the most iconic crime and mystery series of the 1970s • Keith Roysdon traces the evolution of Dennis Lehane • July’s best debut crime and mystery novels • David Pepper has a reading list to understand our badly broken political system • S.A. Cosby knows that pain is what binds together all of crime fiction • Olivia Rutigliano analyzes the hidden depths of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? • Paul D. Marks looks at the American Home Front during WWII through the prism of historical crime fiction • Eric Van Lustbader has some tips for writing realistically about current events • Alexandra Burt remembers a neighborhood crime in a Cold War hotspot • S.C. Perkins has a crime fiction reading list for respecting your elders
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