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Lit Hub Weekly
January 19 - 22, 2021
TODAY: In 1930, Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott is born.
TODAY: In 1930, Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott is born.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
That hollow feeling when Trump left? That’s because he’ll never, ever feel remorse • Matthew Redmond makes a case for reading unfinished novels • Ed Tarkington on reckoning with whiteness in contemporary Southern literature • Against the myth of the macho craft dude • Read every presidential inauguration poem ever performed (there are fewer than you think) • To write about the first woman M.D. in America, Janice P. Nimura decided to shadow another doctor... while they delivered a baby • Jonathon Lichtenstein reflects on intergenerational trauma as he travels through Berlin with his father • André Aciman reflects on being homesick for an Egypt he never knew • David Stuart Maclean on learning to appreciate Fitzgerald’s classic • Ladee Hubbard on Aunt Jemima and the problem of trying to erase racism, instead of reckoning with it • Douglas Penick considers Buddhist traditions of compassion • Simon Winchester on a brief history of land borders • Michael Woodridge on why AI can’t translate Proust—yet • To celebrate Patricia Highsmith’s birthday, we’re reliving her days at Yaddo • Say hello to the Best American Series 2021 editors: Jesmyn Ward, Ed Yong, and more
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Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman
Unapologetically: I Am a Man by Cornelius J. Maxwell
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
In honor of her 100th birthday, a look back at Patricia Highsmith’s malcontents, misogynists, and murders • Garth Greenwell talks Balzac, Giovanni’s Room, and fiction’s greatest orgasm • The Haunting of Hill House, The Yellow Wallpaper, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, and more rapid-fire book recs from Camilla Bruce • New titles from William Boyd, Nnedi Okorafor, and Janice P. Nimura all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
UPCOMING EVENTS
Buzz Books Editors Panel
Salon Online with Russell T Davies and Ruth Coker
NEW ON CRIMEREADS
“Doyle’s genius is not in what he reveals, but what he conceals.” Timothy Miller on the eternal mystery of Sherlock Holmes • Paula Hawkins on Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, 70 years later • Olivia Rutigliano considers how Poe changed literature forever • Snowstorms, mountain chills, and murder with Allie Reynolds • Everything you need to know about Arsene Lupin, gentleman thief • Peter Handel on the long, unusual career of Russell James, the “Godfather of British noir” • Kate Mosse considers historical fiction and the madness of crowds • John Burley examines the intersection of medicine and crime fiction • Beth A. Bechky on the grueling work of real-life forensic science • January’s best new true crime books
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