Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: January 19, 2021

Lit Hub Daily
January 19, 2021

TODAY: In 1921, Patricia Highsmith is born.

“To really engage with craft is to engage with how we know each other,” and 24 other essential notes on craft from Matthew Salesses. | Lit Hub Craft
Happy birthday, Patricia Highsmith! To celebrate, we’re (vicariously?) reliving her days at Yaddo, featuring 48-hour hangovers. | Lit Hub
Say hello to the Best American Series 2021 editors: Jesmyn Ward, Ed Yong, and more. | The Hub
If your New Year’s resolution was to read more books you’re in luck: here are 14 brand new ones out today! | The Hub
“Borrowing Virginia Woolf’s concept in A Room of One’s Own, I thought that this collection of stories could be the first book of their own.” Houzan Mahmoud on creating an anthology of Kurdish women ’s stories. | Lit Hub Politics
On her 100th birthday, a look back at Patricia Highsmith’s malcontents, misogynists, and murders. | Book Marks
Garth Greenwell talks Balzac, Giovanni’s Room, and fiction ’s greatest orgasm. | Book Marks
More than 250 members of the literary community signed an open letter urging publishers not to give book deals to former members of the Trump administration. | Los Angeles Times
Helga Weyhe, Germany’s oldest bookseller, has died at the age of 98. | The New York Times
“A lie is a fiction made up to take away someone else’s power.” On fake news, propaganda, and other uses of fiction. | Guernica
Two weeks after it entered the public domain, different versions of The Great Gatsby are already proliferating online—including The Great Gritty, in which all instances of “Gatsby” are replaced by “Gritty.” | VICE
“I felt as though I was following after an alluring, expansive, and emphatic spirit, racing to keep up as she sped forward.” Tracy K. Smith on translating Yi Lei. | McSweeney’s
How did the Civil War get its name ? | JSTOR Daily
Daniel Allen Cox on redefining Armageddon—during a global pandemic—after growing up Jehovah’s Witness. | Lit Hub
“In fiction writing, imagination creates empathy. Like organizing, writing fiction requires that you get to know people intimately.” On the connection between Stacey Abrams’ art and activism. | Bustle
On “solastalgia,” the grief of living on an actively dying planet. | The Markaz Review
Tyler Stovall considers the long history behind a “freedom” that really means “white freedom.” | Lit Hub History

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