Literary Hub - Lit Hub Daily: February 19, 2021

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February 19, 2021

TODAY: In 1958, Helen Fielding, who wrote a weekly column about urban life in London designed to appeal to young professional women which she later published as a book (Bridget Jones's Diary) is born.

TODAY: In 1958, Helen Fielding, who wrote a column about life in London designed to appeal to young professional women which she later published as a book (Bridget Jones's Diary) is born.

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Bethanne Patrick recommends five books you might’ve missed in January, featuring Wandeka Gayle and Alina Bronsky. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Janet Skeslien Charles on researching Dorothy Reeder, the Directress of the American Library in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France, who defied the Bibliotheksschütz’s authority. | Lit Hub History
Elle Cosimano introduces a new generation of crime writers who started in YA. | CrimeReads
New titles from Patricia Lockwood, Roberto Bolaño, and Bill Gates all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
From Bún bò Huế to KFC: What it was like to share a meal with Anthony Bourdain. | Food and Wine
From Shirley Hazzard to Alexis Wright to Josephine Rowe, Madeleine Watts recommends ten Australian writers you should be reading. | Electric Literature
How Onyinye Miriam Uwolloh’s “Ishmael Na My Name” updates—and challenges—Melville’s original text. | Words Without Borders
Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Megan Labrise on francine j. harris’s Here Is the Sweet Hand. | Lit Hub
“The dirty secret is the pleasure people take in living in the shadow of punishment.” Hari Kunzru on the breathtaking violence of the American criminal justice system, and the possibility of reform. | Harper’s
“Their psychosis was, importantly, only theirs to turn into art.” On Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, and refusing musehood. | The Baffler
“What is interesting, for me, is just how long trauma can linger and how sometimes when you least expect it you have these reminders.” Roxane Gay discusses how to write about trauma and handle criticism. | Vanity Fair
“Gay identity may be a kind of speech act—and a gay bar not just saloon, but salon.” Jeremy Atherton Lin on the literary history of gay and lesbian bars. | Lit Hub History
“When my mind went there, I hummed, loud and insistent, a melody like angry telephone hold music.” Ruth Madievsky on addressing assault in writing. | Guernica
“The movement that began by addressing ‘a problem that has no name’ had become a movement that named with impunity.” Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore on the writings that launched the women’s liberation movement. | Lit Hub History
On finding kinship with Octavia Butler’s Lauren Oya Olamina. | NPR

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