Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: August 10 - 14, 2020

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August 10 - 14, 2020

TODAY: In 2007, former historian at the church where Edgar Allan Poe is buried, Sam Porpora, makes an unconfirmed claim to be the original Poe Toaster. The Poe Toaster was a mysterious figure who made a toast of cognac and left three red roses on Poe’s grave every January 19th, up until 2009.

The most iconic short stories in the English language, as determined by that “weird and wiggly” hive-mind, the American cultural consciousness. | Lit Hub
“A lot of people seem to barely tolerate the person they love. Is that normal?” Molly Wizenberg on what it means to form a couple. | Lit Hub Memoir
Jill Filipovic on how Boomers—“the generation with the least stable marriages in American history”—changed family life forever. | Lit Hub History
Josephine Livingstone on Raven Leilani, Alexandra Kleeman on Elisa Gabbert, Marcel Theroux on John Boyne, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
“The civilized world is only a heartbeat away from primal and uncanny threats.” Jo Furniss on the folk horror revival. | CrimeReads
Want to be happier? Try rereading your favorite books from childhood. | Lifehacker
“My God, I thought, we’re not in this together. The social contract is breaking.” Laila Lalami on what the pandemic has shown us about America—and Americans. | LARB
How Indigenous language preservation activists have reimagined (and expanded) their revitalization campaigns under quarantine. | Slate
A new, rigorous literacy curriculum has inspired struggling students to read in one Tennessee district. | The Atlantic
After Hudda Ibrahim's niece asked why children's books don't feature kids like her, she wrote one, backed by a successful Kickstarter campaign. | Associated Press
This isn’t a matter of exclusion or separatism—a book can be opened by anybody, and open any mind—but of fidelity to the truth of experience.” A.O. Scott on the work of Edward P. Jones. | The New York Times
“If anything which challenges unfair structures and moves us closer to universal justice can be considered protest, then reading is one of its oldest forms.” On reading as protest. | Epiphany
“I just decided that if she was going to get mentioned then I was going to be the one to tell her story, and to put the important role she played in my making in its proper context.” Natasha Trethewey on writing about her mother. | The New Yorker
The neighbors of an upcoming bookstore in Virginia claim that the owner is taking books to sell from Little Free Libraries. | Washingtonian
Lucy Scholes on Kay Dick’s lost dystopian masterpiece, They, “a surreptitious late-career aberration, whose genesis is unclear.” | The Paris Review
From union erasure to the myth of love (of books) conquering all: Why organizing book industry workers is so hard. | Jacobin
“These characters are smart enough to know they’re objects, fully cognizant of their ineffectuality.” Lynn Steger Strong on the passive female characters of contemporary fiction. | Los Angeles Times
How Uighur poets are “bearing eloquent witness to the catastrophe in their homeland.” | NYRB
“Racism makes it difficult to love yourself, and encourages people to make themselves into the image racism prefers.” Matthew Salesses on writing a novel that explores racism's impact on identity. | Ploughshares

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