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Lit Hub Weekly
February 1 - 5, 2021
TODAY: In 1995, poet James Merrill, dies.
TODAY: In 1995, poet James Merrill, dies.
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ALSO THIS WEEK ON LITERARY HUB
Randa Jarrar on Palestinian mothers, the Virgin Mary, and the Mothers of the Movement • Emily Temple reads two new novels about Being Extremely Online • Ellie Eaton recommends her favorite literary mean girls • Lydia Paar considers if bots should replace humans after all • Keisha Bush on reclaiming her name • Mark Bittman on the philosophy of “agroecology” • Susan Meissner recommends 10 books set against natural disasters • An Tran on the fake translation scandalizing the Buddhist Anglosphere • Susan Conley considers the relationship between mothers and teenage sons • Paisley Rekdal has some advice for new graduates: read everything • Sheila Heti on the preoccupations of Richard Wollheim’s Germs • On Donald Barthelme’s bourbon-related writing advice and other lessons Chang-rae Lee has learned • Sarah Langan on the damaging archetype of The Mom • Louis Chude-Sokei on his dining table that reflected the Black diaspora • Maria E. Andreu on learning that dystopic realities aren’t as splashy as they are in fiction • David Hardin on telling the story of Flint, Michigan • Lauren Marino recreates the spaces of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and others • Thomas C. Holt on the Civil Rights rebellion of Carrie Lee Fitzgerald • When you’re stuck on your book, try writing another one inside of it • Courtney Maum finally embraces dancing, during pregnancy and beyond • Avni Doshi recommends nine books that capture the full complexity of motherhood • Laura Cronk considers ghosts and the gendered work of cleaning house • Russell Shorto on realizing that his grandfather was a small-town mobster • Molly Crabapple has a message for New Yorkers • Nonsense that men told 18th-century “Lady Novelists” • Nadav Eyal on the rise of neo-fascism in contemporary Germany
The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
THE BEST OF BOOK MARKS
From a skin-shedding bodyguard to the adopted daughter of death, here are 7 Sci-Fi and Fantasy books to soothe your February blues • The Art of Fielding, Postcolonial Love Poem, and more rapid-fire book recs from Emily Nemens • Heather Cleary recommends some brilliant books in translation...about translators! • The Last Samurai, 10:04, A Wrinkle in Time, and more rapid-fire book recs from Lauren Oyler • New titles from Melissa Broder, Lauren Oyler, and Dantiel W. Moniz all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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NEW ON CRIMEREADS
Jonathan Kellerman on the malignant persistence of the shrink cliché in crime fiction • Sebastian Fitzek on psychological thrillers and the unexplored mind • a look at February’s best new crime fiction • Olivia Rutigliano gathers the 45 best prison escape films, and ranks them • V.M. Burns says, now, more than ever, is the time to embrace ‘escapist’ fiction • Daneet Steffens interviews Aussie crime writing superstar Jane Harper • Paul Vidich considers an enduring legacy of imposters in espionage and crime fiction • Vince Keenan on Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, and the greatest thriller that never was • Dwyer Murphy mourns John D. MacDonald’s old Florida home, now demolished • Michael Kaufman considers the responsibilities of the police procedural
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Lit Hub Daily: February 5, 2021

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Lit Hub Daily February 5, 2021 TODAY: In 1922, the first issue of Reader's Digest is published. Suspecting early 20th-century Americans were overloaded with information, DeWitt Wallace founded the

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