Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2020

Lit Hub Daily
August 18, 2020

TODAY: In 1936, 38-year-old Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror.

TODAY: In 1936, 38-year-old Federico García Lorca is arrested by Francoist militia during the White Terror.

Can dogs help us be better writers? Anna Bruno reflects on the “profound lessons in humanity” that dogs offer us. | Lit Hub
Mrs. Bridge is a perfect novel—but how does it work? Emily Temple unpacks an American classic. | Lit Hub Criticism
A letter from North Carolina: Randall Kenan on learning from ghosts of the Civil War. | Lit Hub Politics
Lisa Hanawalt’s early, surreal comic art includes freeway accidents, various hats, and of course, horses. | Lit Hub Art
“No one becomes a billionaire honestly.” Sarah Chayes on the criminal masterminds of the Gilded Age (who created the very American system we live under today). | Lit Hub History
Sick, scandalous, spectacular: read the first reviews of Lolita. | Book Marks
Johnny Shaw explores the “other” California crime fiction, with a look at great novels that aren't set in Los Angeles or San Francisco. | CrimeReads
On William McGonagall, “the worst famous poet in the English language.” | Lapham’s Quarterly
“I was at Mount Sinai, one of the leading hospitals in the country, and I had just delivered a baby without a doctor or nurse present.” Naomi Jackson on giving birth in America as a Black woman. | Harper's
When two brothers saw their father hospitalized with COVID-19, they began an initiative to bring books to him and other isolated patients. | Associated Press
In case you're not already convinced that the USPS is essential to our society, take it from the author of the 1985 post-apocalyptic novel The Postman. | EW
How politically radical women in 19th-century France were made into misogynistic caricatures: Jill Richards on the petroleuses of the Paris Commune. | Lit Hub History
Mercedes Barcha, the widow of Gabriel García Márquez, has died at 87. Márquez credited Barcha for providing crucial support throughout his writing career. | ABC
Seventy-five years after George Orwell’s Animal Farm was published, Téa Obreht writes, we may want to heed the story’s lessons now more than ever. | TIME
“In my experience, grief throws you forward and trauma hurls you back.” Sammi LaBue on family stories and hidden histories. | Lit Hub Memoir

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