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.

“Lorde’s view of poetry and the imagination clarified my own inclination to disappear, at times, into my own head.” Tracy K. Smith reads Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals. | Lit Hub Biography
“The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism.” Rebecca Solnit on black swans, slim chances, and the 2020 presidential election. | Lit Hub Politics
“In the farthest, most northern places, we can still make a stand against climate change.” Rick Bass on saving America’s forest arks. | Lit Hub Climate Change
In praise of readings: Kirk S. Walsh looks back at 33 years of watching writers stand up in public to share their work, from William Trevor to Carmen Maria Machado. | Lit Hub Craft and Criticism
From Dolly Parton to Don DeLillo, white supremacists to marauding bears, here are the five reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
For the 100th anniversary of Agatha Christie's first novel, J. Kingston Pierce looks at the many, many editions of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. | CrimeReads
“Leaders perish but the people have a relative immortality. Therefore the first order of business for us as a people is to find our way back to equilibrium.” Marilynne Robinson on the state of the union. | The New York Times
What is travel writing without traveling? Jason Wilson on what the pandemic has meant for his career. | The Washington Post
At the digital Frankfurt Book Fair, David Grossman called on writers to bear witness to the results of the pandemic. “Most writers and poets I know—including myself—are embarrassingly clumsy when it comes to engaging with reality,” he said. “But we do know how to observe it.” | The Guardian
What is the value of a written constitution? It may not be as obvious as you think. | The Atlantic
Namwali Serpell has thought a lot about the strangeness and beauty of human faces. | The Boston Globe
What is the “afterlife” of an author who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature? Mario Vargas Llosa has some thoughts. | Pledge Times
“If there was a handbook for writing an erotic scene, I’m sure it would say “Don’t do that.” But that’s what I love about the scene.” Emily M. Danforth on the Very Good Sex in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt. | Vulture
Unfortunately, now seems like the perfect time for this series of critical essays on Ling Ma’s Severance. | Post45
“We’re crucial to the American story. There would be no America without Indigenous peoples.” Joy Harjo on creating an anthology of Indigenous poetry. | Chicago Review of Books
“I pretended to act the way I thought a cute woman should act . . . but it was a horrible experience.” Read a profile of Sakaya Murata. | The Guardian
New to Octavia E. Butler's work? Here's where to continue reading. | Los Angeles Times
“She has taught me: Don’t get comfortable.” Dana Levin on her friendship with Louise Glück. | The Paris Review
“Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment . . . but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.” N.K. Jemisin introduces the 100 best fantasy books of all time. | TIME
Why Peter Mendelsund—“a musician turned designer turned novelist turned painter”—rips the covers off his favorite books. | Inside Hook
You know what you should do this weekend? Buy some books from your local bookstore. Otherwise it might not be there in the spring. | The New York Times

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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 remember • Julius 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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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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