Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: January 22, 2021

Lit Hub Daily
January 22, 2021

TODAY: In 1893, Kawatake Mokuami, Japanese dramatist of Kabuki dies.

That hollow feeling when Trump left? That’s because he’ll never, ever feel remorse. | Lit Hub Politics
“On careful inspection, it is surprisingly difficult to tell what makes a novel, or any piece of writing, truly finished.” Matthew Redmond makes a case for reading unfinished novels (particularly from Austen, Poe, and Dickens). | Lit Hub Criticism
Turns out there’s a long and shady history of doctors encouraging anti-vaxxers. | Lit Hub History
Ed Tarkington on reckoning with whiteness in contemporary Southern literature. | Lit Hub Criticism
Against the myth of the macho craft dude (and in praise of crafting as a model for community support). | Lit Hub
New titles from William Boyd, Nnedi Okorafor, and Janice P. Nimura all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
Peter Handel on the long, unusual career of Russell James, the “Godfather of British noir.” | CrimeReads
“Publishers need more Black translator friends.” Aaron Robertson lays out a roadmap for bringing more Black translators and international writers into America’s book industry. | Words Without Borders
“For poetry, truth is necessary but not sufficient.” An interview with Martín Espada. | Lit Hub Poetry
Elisa Gabbert on Leonora Carrington, whose own experiences in a sanatorium made it into her novel, The Hearing Trumpet, if transformed into “something more fabulist, and much more interesting.” | The Paris Review
Please enjoy this deep dive on Emily Dickinson’s hair. | LARB
Bridgerton isn’t failing to be Jane Austen—it’s succeeding at being an escapist Regency romance. | HuffPost
“Humans’ drive toward beautiful difference is the force that subverts, again and again, the narcissists’ need to consume us all.” Considering Trump in a lineage of villains, literary and otherwise. | Vox
Thirteen-year-old Brayden Harrington, who found solidarity with President Joe Biden on the campaign trail over having a stutter, will write a picture book. | The New York Times
“If Fitzgerald writes beautifully about white American men, he falls short in writing about white American women, and he knew it.” Min Jin Lee on The Great Gatsby. | New York Review of Books

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