Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: September 8 - 11, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
September 8 - 11, 2020

TODAY: In 1892, Alfred Abraham Knopf, founder of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, is born.
TODAY: In 1892, Alfred Abraham Knopf, founder of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, is born.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Five years after the publication All American Boys its authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, kind of wish it would go out of print • Aimee Nezhukumatathil in praise of the “Mexican Walking Fish,” the cutest creature on planet earth • Daniel Mendelsohn talks to John Freeman about Homer and the art of digression • On Albert Allson Whitman, radical Black poet of the Reconstruction • Matthew Salesses on living through grief, both collective and personal • Sue Miller on first literary lovesPoetry by Henri Cole • Kerri Arsenault and Elizabeth Rush on writing from the edgelands • The unexpected politics of book cover design • Are New Yorkers really as rude as everyone thinks they are? • Sulaiman Addonia on surrendering the language of home • Our idea of Wagner tells us more about ourselves than about him • Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle on what the US could learn from the Eastern Band Cherokee Indians response to crisis • What happens in a pandemic when your friendship superpower is cooking? • Sherrill Grace on writing a biography of Timothy Findley • Adam O. Davis finding phantoms and broken lines in his new poetry collection • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on the rich oral traditions the Ganda people • How deeply involved is Devin Nunes in the conspiracy to discredit Joe Biden? • Diane Cook imagines life post climate change • Ed Vulliamy at a B.B. King “show” in Indianola, Mississippi • Virginia Woolf once wondered if the lecture was nearing the end of its days; Mary Cappello takes up the very same question
BOOKS OUT FROM AMAZON PUBLISHING
Don't Ever Forget by Matthew Farrell
Interference by Brad Parks
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Eula Biss recommends five books that defy classification, from Hilton Als' The Women to Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely • Where the Sidewalk EndsOne Hundred Years of SolitudeBeloved, and more rapid-fire book recs from Sarah M. Broom • From the archives: a classic review of Roald Dahl's The Witches • New titles by Susanna Clarke, Sigrid Nunez, Frederik Backman, and Claudia Rankine all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Lady Antonia Fraser examines a classic mystery of the middle class • Miles Corwin on the long, strange history of the Black Dahlia murder, Los Angeles’ coldest case • David Heska Wanbli Weiden on the long history and continuing importance of crime fiction by Native authors • How neo-colonial violence and exploitation gave birth to America’s most notorious gang, from Stephen Dudley • Nick Kolakawski on the notorious, nuanced “villains” of classic film noir • Bradford Morrow goes in search of unknown books by renowned authors • Neil Nyren introduces us to the big-hearted world of Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series • Olivia Rutigliano has just found out that Eleanor Roosevelt’s son wrote 20 mysteries in which his mother solves mysteries • Nancy Jooyoun Kim, in conversation with Mimi Wong, on the mysteries of immigrant family life • Nell Patterson on five crime novels featuring deaf characters
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