Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: January 21, 2021

Lit Hub Daily
January 21, 2021

TODAY: In 1789, The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, is published.

André Aciman reflects on being homesick for an Egypt he never knew. | Lit Hub Memoir
“I had to be brought back to that state, ugly and unloved inside and out, to become the right reader for Gatsby.” David Stuart Maclean on learning to appreciate Fitzgerald’s classic. | Lit Hub
Ladee Hubbard on Aunt Jemima and the problem of trying to erase racism, instead of reckoning with it. | Lit Hub History
Parul Sehgal on Tove Ditlevsen’s Copenhagen Trilogy, Dwigth Garner on a biography of Lucian Freud, and more Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
“Doyle’s genius is not in what he reveals, but what he conceals.” Timothy Miller on the eternal mystery of Sherlock Holmes. | CrimeReads
“In pain or grief, love, rage, or illness, in hormonal extremes or sleepless desperation, the body gifts us a window onto the world.” Marina Benjamin on the codependence of language and the body. | The Paris Review
America ’s new favorite poet Amanda Gorman talks about the inspiration behind “The Hill We Climb,” and the Maya Angelou-inspired ring that was a gift from (who else) Oprah. | Vogue
“Were Wharton writing their story… one fears the prince might not fare well.” Claire Messud makes the case for Meghan Markle as a present-day Undine Spragg. | T Magazine
Héctor Tobar, Annette Gordon-Reed, and more discuss the disinformation crisis, and the path to a more stable democracy. | The Los Angeles Times
“You have to remind yourself, ‘This is what I’m for, I’m not good at anything else.’ And you just have to keep going.” Read an interview with Kevin Barry. | LARB
“I am interested in things that are popular. But also, I understand what a good book is, and what an intelligent set of ideas is.” Lauren Oyler on criticism. | The Wall Street Journal
Afrofuturism was around long before we had a name for it. For Tim Fielder, radical Black imaginaries have been speaking to him since his Mississippi childhood. | Lit Hub Politics
The pulp noir books of Richard Himmel, a former “star” of the Chicago design scene, are back in print for a new generation of readers. | Chicago Tribune

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