Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: October 13 - 16, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
October 13 - 16, 2020

TODAY: In 1892, David Edelstadt, anarchist poet and editor of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime, dies at age 26 from tuberculosis.
TODAY: In 1892, David Edelstadt, anarchist poet and editor of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime, dies at age 26 from tuberculosis.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Claire Messud considers what constitutes an essay, that most elusive of forms • Americans abroad, a reading list • How does Dolly Parton write a song? • Rumaan Alam talks to Lynn Steger Strong in conversation • Mariana Enriquez and an affair to rememberJulius Margolin on his life in the gulag • Young John Berryman is just like us! • How a young John Brown became the legendary militant abolitionist • Anaïs Duplan offers a brief history of the classification of Black music • Read from this year’s Cundill History Prize longlist • Forget the polls, here is every Mr. Darcy ranked • From Napoleon to Trump, Liesl Schillinger on the tyrant as troll • What happens when literary events move online? • On missing just about everything to do with the biggest bookish gathering in the world • Roger Berkowitz on Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and how might ever exist again in a shared reality • Magda Montiel Davis on the anticommunist Cuban exiles who struck terror in Miami • A letter from Dorothy Gallagher to her late husband Ben Sonnenberg • James K.A. Smith on the delight of Daniel Mendelsohn • Johanna Hedva takes an unconventional approach to putting words on paper • Stephanie Kent on what she found out interviewing booksellers from all 50 states • Barry Yourgrau on publishing a pandemic collection in Japan • Maureen N. McLane on the work of Louise Glück
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We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe
An American Covenant by Lucile Scott
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Claire Messud recommends five books about the writing life, from In Search of Lost Time to A Room of One's Own • The Ungrateful Refugee author Dina Nayeri on James Salter's sex scenes and hating Moby-Dick • New titles from Xiaolu Guo, Rebecca Roanhorse, David Leavitt, and Craig Brown all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
NEW CRIME & THRILLERS OUT NOW
Walk the Wire by David Balducci
The Unspoken by Ian K. Smith
Elsewhere by Dean Koontz
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Christopher Chambers gives us a brief history of nontraditional voices in crime fiction, from Poe to Himes • Stephanie Kane analyzes Edward Hopper’s iconic blonde as a noir archetype • Olivia Rutigliano on The Westing Game as ghost story • Christopher Chambers gives us a brief history of nontraditional voices in crime fiction, from Poe to Himes • Michael Puchner on Rotwelsch, the Central European language of beggars, travelers and thieves • How the 1969 murders of a labor leader and his family changed coal country forever, from Mark A. Bradley • Six true crime books you should read this October • Chloe Maveal on the quiet history of lesbian pulp fiction • Seven great heist novels, recommended by art dealer Carol Orange • Lisa Jewell celebrates the fact that in crime fiction, anyone can be a murderer
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Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2020

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Lit Hub Daily October 13, 2020 TODAY: In 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premieres in New York. TODAY: In 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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