Literary Hub - Lit Hub Weekly: December 14 - 18, 2020

Lit Hub Weekly
December 14 - 18, 2020

TODAY: In 1903, the first of G. K. Chesterton’s short stories, “The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown,” appears in Harper’s Weekly.
TODAY: In 1903, the first of G. K. Chesterton’s short stories, “The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown,” appears in Harper’s Weekly.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Why Hemingway lives on in the imaginations of thousands of comic book artists • Anuradha Roy on the importance of companionship, animal and human both • Richard Jean So on the inertia of whiteness in post • On the challenge of creating a new generation of Octavia Butler covers • A thank you to outgoing Lit Hub executive editor John Freeman • On riding the metro in Rome, translating poems • On young Mozart’s life with Leopold, and the origins of his First Symphony • Adam Scovell in praise of literature’s master of scary stories, M.R. James • Ken Layne on the desertscapes of a young William Burroughs • The Bookstore at the End of the World recommend their favorite books of the year • Eduardo Halfon, on the most unique reading he’s ever given • Gabrielle Bellot on Virginia Woolf’s interpretations of malady, and the complexities of writing through a pandemic • Cynthia Tucker on the long road ahead for an America at war with itself • Rob Spillman on what happens when your Twitter account is stolen and you can’t get it back • Christa Parravani on the high barriers to abortion access in contemporary America • Willie, Dolly, Enrique, and the country-pop crossover that changed everything • How Robert Musil slowly discovered the man without qualities in his early writing for the stage • Kelly Coyne on who gets to be loud in America • AI systems are as much a tool of whiteness as any other system of power • Five great holiday audiobooks for the young readers in your life • “Stonehenge might once have been largely a wooden structure.” Wait, what? • Barry Lopez on the life of Richard K. Nelson • Some of the writers, editors, and great literary minds we lost this year • Starting our countdown of The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: here's 50 to 31, 30 to 11, and you can read 10 - 1 on Monday!
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THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
Cancelled ceremonies but plenty of prizes: here are the award-winning novels of 2020 • The best reviewed mystery and crimegraphic literature, and literature in translation of the year • The Haunting of Hill HouseJane EyreThe Master and Margarita, and more rapid-fire book recs from Carmen Maria Machado • Lamorna Ash recommends five great books about the sea, from To the Lighthouse to Moby-Dick • From the archives: a classic review of A Christmas Carol, originally published on this day in 1843
The Forger's Daughter by Bradford Morrow
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International intrigue abounds in the year's best spy fiction • Walter Mosley on Devil in a Blue Dress, 30 years later • Gray Basnight asks, how many of the greatest crime books of all time have you read? • Lisa Levy with 2020’s best psychological thrillers • The best true crime books of 2020 • The best debut crime and mystery novels of 2020 • The best gothic fiction of 2020 • Dwyer Murphy on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the greatest office Christmas party ever filmed • Graphic Content: Ed Brubaker talks private eyes and pulp fiction with Alex Segura • Olivia Rutigliano on Home Alone and its questionable lessons for adulthood
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