Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: November 16 - 20, 2020

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November 16 - 20, 2020

TODAY: In 1955, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son is published by Beacon Press.

“Art is made in the space between the artist and their early, chosen readers, a space that is filled with love.” Sheila Heti on the importance of finding your trusted readers. | Lit Hub Craft
Rebecca Solnit: How are we supposed to meet half-way with people for whom belief trumps fact? | Lit Hub Politics
“These coming weeks and months will be, for many, the saddest time of the year.” If the real doesn’t have you down, Simon Han has some unhappy holiday literature to get you across the finish line. | Lit Hub Reading List
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s memoir, Michael Wolff on Evan Osnos’ Joe Biden biography, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
Claire Douglas recommends five psychological thrillers set in isolated places. | CrimeReads
“This is the thorniest nonfiction publishing challenge that I’ve ever seen.” How publishers are confronting the possibility of a Trump memoir. | The New York Times
“There’s a righteous joy in their sex writing—even in dark or traumatic scenes—and a sense of conviction that seems the hard-won fruit of personal and political struggle.” On sex in contemporary fiction, from Garth Greenwell to Lidia Yuknavitch to Miranda Popkey to Raven Leilani. | The Point
Historians have found around 200 first edition copies of Isaac Newton’s masterpiece, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, a book once believed to be much rarer. | Live Science
“Is it still cool to memorize a lot of stuff? Is there even a reason to memorize anything?” On Wikipedia, Jeopardy!, and the fate of the fact. | The New Yorker
Thanks, Obama: the former president’s memoir is poised to save Christmas for lots of booksellers impacted by the pandemic. | The New York Times
“Working on JR consumed my life . . . When it was all over, I cried.” Meet Nick Sullivan, the audiobook narrator who tackled William Gaddis’ enormous, dialogue-filled, “unreadable” masterpiece, and lived to tell about it. | The Guardian
Take a tour of Octavia Butler's life in books and the local libraries that supported her. | Los Angeles Times
“Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.” Daniel Mendelson on what Trump can learn from the biggest losers in literature and history. | Town & Country
After 50 years,“the great white whale of science fiction”—an anthology of works by major names edited by Harlan Ellison—is finally going to be published. | The Guardian
“I needed to write a book that was a snapshot in time, but that was also a fair appraisal of what my life had been like and what it feels like for a child of immigrants.” Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on the difficulties of writing about migration. | CNN
“There’s no such thing as lost steps!” Matthew Beaumont on André Breton and the politics and poetics of walking in the city. | The Paris Review
“I think we actually sabotage our own happiness with this unrestrained anger.” Read a profile of Loretta J. Ross, whose Smith College course on White Supremacy in the Age of Trump teaches students to call people in instead of calling them out. | The New York Times
Read beyond Hillbilly Elegy with these stories of the American working class. | Los Angeles Times
Can’t stop watching The Crown? These books are a great starting place for more on the Windsors. | Washington Post

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Here’s every National Book Award for Fiction and Nonfiction winner of the 21st century • The Sellout, Station Eleven, Crime and Punishment and more rapid-fire book recs from National Book Award-winner Charles Yu • Megan Hunter recommends five books about women transformed, from Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber to Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing • From the archives: the first reviews of every Margaret Atwood novel, from The Edible Woman to The Testaments • Barack Obama’s memoir, Robert Harris’ latest WWII novel, and an oral history of Dazed and Confused all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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C.J. Box on Big Sky, big twists, and bringing his beloved Montana characters to the screen • The CrimeReads staff recommends November’s best international crime fiction • Abby Endler of Crime by the Book talks love and murder with Jo Nesbø • Why odd couples and opposites make for great mystery fiction, from S.M. Goodwin • Crime and the City heads to Mexico City, a sprawling city with a rich tradition in mystery and crime fiction • 40 years after Jonestown, Courtney Summers reflects on the difficulty of writing about cults and the people who join them • Otto Penzler traces the evolution of espionage fiction • Erin Lindsay would like to remind you that Teddy Roosevelt hung with the wildest lawmen of the Old West • Les Standiford explores the history of crime writing in Miami • Matthew Deandra mourns his mother, Orania Papazoglou, who wrote as Jane Haddam

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